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Black Performance Theory
ISBN: 9780822356073 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers--many of whom are performers--demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world...
Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinke...
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568,13 |
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Black Performance Theory
ISBN: 9780822356165 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers many of whom are performers demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world...
Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinke...
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137,09 |
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Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art
ISBN: 9780333801451 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is an introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyzes a selection of case studies from the popular dance imagery of music, video and Hollywood, through to experimental art dance.
This volume is an introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyz...
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402,53 |
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Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narratives
ISBN: 9781783201785 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting a rich mosaic of embodied contemporary narratives in spirituality and movement studies, this book explicitly studies the relationship between spirituality and the field of Somatic Movement Dance Education. It is the first scholarly text to focus on contemporary spirituality within the domain of dance and somatic movement studies. "Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities" brings together prominent authors and practitioners in order to elucidate how a wide range of sacred narratives/spiritualities are informing pedagogy, educational and therapeutic practice. As well as providing new... Presenting a rich mosaic of embodied contemporary narratives in spirituality and movement studies, this book explicitly studies the relationship be... |
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346,10 |
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Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery
ISBN: 9780252038259 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage.
Examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stag...
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445,69 |
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Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery
ISBN: 9780252079832 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical performance was used by white Europeans and Americans to justify enslavement, perpetuate the existing racial hierarchy, and mask the brutality of the domestic slave trade. Whether on slave ships, at the auction block, or on plantations, whites often used coerced performances to oppress and demean the... In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerce... |
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117,50 |
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Mixed Methods Research in the Movement Sciences: Case Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Dance
ISBN: 9780415532273 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mixed methods research techniques, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements, have become well established throughout the social, behavioural and natural sciences. This is the first book to focus on the application of mixed methods research in the movement sciences, specifically in sport, physical education and dance. Researchers and practitioners in each of these fields are concerned with the study of habitual behaviour in naturalistic contexts, and of the concurrent and sequential nature of events and states, precisely the kind of work that multi-method research design can help...
Mixed methods research techniques, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements, have become well established throughout the social, behaviour...
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254,64 |
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The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675-1725
ISBN: 9781409455332 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myriad performance options available to London audiences, offering readers a composite portrait of the music, drama, and dance productions that characterized this rich period. Just as the performing arts were deeply interrelated, the essays presented here, by scholars from a range of fields, engage in dialogue with others in the volume. The opening section examines a famous series of 1701 performances based on the competition between composers to set...
Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myriad ...
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661,20 |
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Yaya's Tango Journey
ISBN: 9781482320152 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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52,40 |
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Tales of a Tiller Girl
ISBN: 9780007582143 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene's story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life.
A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene's ...
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77,03 |
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Great Choreographers-Interviews
ISBN: 9781496976376 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, the reader will find some of the most important choreographers, artists who helped to shape the dance scene as it is today, from icon Pina Bausch to still-thriving figures such as Xavier Le Roy, Sasha Waltz, and more. Through this compilation of interviews conducted over the course of twenty years, Natasha Hassiotis aims to show on the one hand the choices made by the audience, the agents, and the festivals, and on the other hand, to show through discussions with choreographers what they have to say about their relation to their art, their audiences, and their dancers. A...
In this book, the reader will find some of the most important choreographers, artists who helped to shape the dance scene as it is today, from icon Pi...
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83,64 |
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Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World
ISBN: 9780814760291 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more than a specific music and style of dancing. It is also a cultural imaginary which embodies intense passion, hyper-heterosexuality, and dangerous exoticism. In the wake of its latest revival, tango has become both a cultural symbol of Argentinean national identity and a transnational cultural space in which...
Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-cross...
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362,43 |
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Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World
ISBN: 9780814760710 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more than a specific music and style of dancing. It is also a cultural imaginary which embodies intense passion, hyper-heterosexuality, and dangerous exoticism. In the wake of its latest revival, tango has become both a cultural symbol of Argentinean national identity and a transnational cultural space in which...
Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-cross...
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137,09 |
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Pointed Encounters: Pointed Encounters: Dance in Post-Culloden Scottish Literature
ISBN: 9789042038691 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pointed Encounters establishes the literary significance of representations of dance in poetry, song, dance manuals, and fiction written between 1750 and 1830. Presenting original readings of canonical texts and fresh readings of neglected but significant literary works, this book traces the complicated role of social dancing in Scottish culture and identifies the hitherto unexplored motif of dance as an outwardly conforming, yet covertly subversive, expression of Scottish identity during the period. The volume draws upon diverse yet mutually revealing texts, from traditional dance and...
Pointed Encounters establishes the literary significance of representations of dance in poetry, song, dance manuals, and fiction written betwee...
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246,47 |
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Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9781604978810 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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517,87 |
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101 More Dance Games for Children: New Fun and Creativity with Movement
ISBN: 9781630266370 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is filled with dance games that the whole classroom or family can play and learn from. These noncompetitive games reward children for their involvement, encourage them to use their imagination, and show them how to express how they feel without using words. Black-and-white illustrations add to these simple games that release a child s spontaneity and self-expression."
This book is filled with dance games that the whole classroom or family can play and learn from. These noncompetitive games reward children for their ...
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103,86 |
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Earth in Flower - The Divine Mystery of the Cambodian Dance Drama
ISBN: 9781934431290 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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150,84 |
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Life Dances: Stories from the Indianapolis JCC and the Arthur and Sara Reuben Senior and Community Resource Center
ISBN: 9780984950157 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this engaging collection, seniors from JCC Indianapolis and the Albert and Sara Rueben Senior and Community Resource Center remember small and large moments of their lives that will make you laugh, cry, and leave you full of wonder at the wide range of journeys that have brought them to now. From memories of Southaven, Michigan, an enclave for Jewish young people in the 1940's, to the horrors of Nazi Germany, these writers have not only created a legacy for their families, but also offer invaluable insights to those who want to know more about what it was like to live in their time. The...
In this engaging collection, seniors from JCC Indianapolis and the Albert and Sara Rueben Senior and Community Resource Center remember small and larg...
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53,36 |
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Stripperens lille håndbog: Et frisk pust til dit parforhold
ISBN: 9788771459418 / Duński / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,47 |
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Gwen Verdon: A Life on Stage and Screen
ISBN: 9780786497362 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon (1925-2000) won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and also appeared in films and on television. Stricken with rickets as a child, Verdon overcame severe leg deformity through ballet training, making her film debut at 11 as a solo ballerina in the musical The King Steps Out (1936). Her theater credits include Can-Can (1953-1955), Damn Yankees (1955-1956), Redhead (1959-1960), New Girl in Town (1957-1958), Sweet Charity (1966-1967) and Chicago (1975-1977). When not dancing on stage or screen, she coached other actors, such as Jane Russell,...
American dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon (1925-2000) won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and also appeared in films and on television...
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167,87 |