Ballet & Modern Dance
Title | Ballet & Modern Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Anderson |
Publisher | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Ballet |
ISBN | 9780916622435 |
Traces the history of dance from the ancient world to the present and discusses the contributions of influential dancers and choreographers.
Harnessing the Wind
Title | Harnessing the Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Erkert |
Publisher | Human Kinetics |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Modern dance |
ISBN | 9780736044875 |
Illustrated with abstract and imaginative photographs, this is a philosophical guide for the dance field about the art of teaching modern dance. Integrating somatic theories, scientific research and contemporary aesthetic practices, it asks the reader to reconsider how and why they teach.
Modern dancing and dancers
Title | Modern dancing and dancers PDF eBook |
Author | J. E. Crawford Flitch |
Publisher | Good Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2022-01-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
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This book is concerned mostly with the ballet of both the Russian and English schools. Where other dance styles are mentioned they are considered with reference to ballet. Several famous ballerinas are mentioned, such as Anna Pavlova. There are also illustrations.
Foulsham's Modern Dancing
Title | Foulsham's Modern Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Maxwell Stewart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Ballroom dancing |
ISBN |
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing
Title | The People Have Never Stopped Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Shea Murphy |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN | 1452913439 |
During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.
Dancing at Armageddon
Title | Dancing at Armageddon PDF eBook |
Author | Richard G. Mitchell |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780226532448 |
Mitchell takes us inside a movement that is increasingly occupying the national consciousness, into a compelling, hidden world, far more connected to the chaos of modern life than its caricature as a freakish antigovernment activity would suggest."--BOOK JACKET.
Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques
Title | Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Legg |
Publisher | Dance Horizons |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780871273253 |
Each unit contains core ideas, a series of journaling and discussion topics, improvisation experiments, biographical sketches of the choreographers, and a presentation of-class material. At the end of each chapter, questions and experiments offer basic ideas that you can use to further your understanding of the choreography presented. --