Getting Started in Ballet: A Parent's Guide to Dance Education
ISBN: 9780195117165 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Many children dream of being a ballerina. Chin raised with purpose, arms high above head, they twirl clumsily around the living room and leap tirelessly in the air. Sooner or later they're bound to say, "I want to dance." Now what do you do? How do you know if the time is right? Where's the best place to start? In Getting Started in Ballet, Anna Paskevska draws from her training at the Paris Opera Ballet School and and the Royal Ballet School in London and her career as a professional dancer and teacher to offer a step-by-step introduction to dance education for parents with children...
Many children dream of being a ballerina. Chin raised with purpose, arms high above head, they twirl clumsily around the living room and leap tireless...
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400,93 zł |
Getting Started in Ballet: A Parent's Guide to Dance Education
ISBN: 9780195117172 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Many children dream of being a ballerina. Chin raised with purpose, arms high above head, they twirl clumsily around the living room and leap tirelessly in the air. Sooner or later they're bound to say, "I want to dance." Now what do you do? How do you know if the time is right? Where's the best place to start? In Getting Started in Ballet, Anna Paskevska draws from her training at the Paris Opera Ballet School and the Royal Ballet School in London and her career as a professional dancer and teacher to offer a step-by-step introduction to dance education for parents with children starting...
Many children dream of being a ballerina. Chin raised with purpose, arms high above head, they twirl clumsily around the living room and leap tireless...
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70,38 zł |
The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov: Choreographer of the Nutcracker and Swan Lake
ISBN: 9780198165675 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is the first book-length study in any language about this Russian artist--Marius Petipa's colleague and Tchaikovsky's collaborator--who is widely celebrated and yet virtually unknown. It follows Ivanov from his infancy in a St Petersburg foundling home through to his career as a dancer, regisseur, and choreographer in the St Petersburg Imperial Ballet. Ivanov's artistic world is described, as is his legacy-- some dozen works, including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and the famous dances from Prince Igor--that inspired Mikhail Fokine in the next generation. The book is richly documented,...
This is the first book-length study in any language about this Russian artist--Marius Petipa's colleague and Tchaikovsky's collaborator--who is widely...
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de Pratica Seu Arte Tripudii: On the Practice or Art of Dancing
ISBN: 9780198165743 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This important new sourcebook is the first publication in simultaneous Italian and English translation of the important 1463 dance treatise "On the Practice or Art of Dancing" by Guglielmo Ebreo--William the Jew--dancing master at the most influential courts in Renaissance Italy. It includes choreographies and music for thirty-six dances, a theory of the dance (still valid today), and Guglielmo's first-hand account of the festivities in which he took part. Sparti has provided an extensive introduction, appendices containing significant theoretical, musical, and choreographic additions from a...
This important new sourcebook is the first publication in simultaneous Italian and English translation of the important 1463 dance treatise "On the Pr...
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430,53 zł |
Adversaries of Dance: From the Puritans to the Present
ISBN: 9780252065903 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial 'dance palace' or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral--more preciously as being a danger to the purity of those who practiced it, particularly women. In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four centuries in what is now the United States.
Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial 'dance palace' or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral--m...
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104,09 zł |
Choreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire
ISBN: 9780253212160 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Undoubtedly, Choreography and Narrative is an important contribution to dance history research." --Nineteenth-Century French Studies "This work is a landmark in the field and belongs in all libraries serving undergraduate, graduate, and faculty researchers in dance." --Choice "Invents a new method for writing the history of performance: Foster has found an innovative way of appealing directly to the kinesthetic imagination of her readers, evoking the elusive styles of the pieces she reconstructs." --Joseph Roach "An impressive work of scholarship, this elegantly staged... "Undoubtedly, Choreography and Narrative is an important contribution to dance history research." --Nineteenth-Century French Studies "This w... |
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114,50 zł |
The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy
ISBN: 9780253344533 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "This book adds an entirely new dimension to the consideration of Humanism and Italian culture. It will make a welcome addition to the field of cultural studies by broadening the subject to consider an important source of information that has been previously overlooked." --Timothy McGee The Eloquent Body offers a history and analysis of court dancing during the Renaissance, within the context of Italian Humanism. Each chapter addresses different philosophical, social, or intellectual aspects of dance during the 15th century. Some topics include issues of economic class, education,... "This book adds an entirely new dimension to the consideration of Humanism and Italian culture. It will make a welcome addition to the field of cul... |
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169,91 zł |
First Position: A Century of Ballet Artists
ISBN: 9780275983918 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The dancers profiled in First Position represent the pinnacle of their art over the last century. Author Toba Singer polled scores of dance critics, dance teachers and professors, and active and retired professional dancers to create a list that represents the best of the various styles of ballet from the last hundred years. The result is a collective biography that introduces the reader to dancers both with household names and those known mostly to ballet aficioinados. Profiled dancers include Carlos Acosta, Alicia Alonso, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Erik Bruhn, Lazaro Carreno, Margot... The dancers profiled in First Position represent the pinnacle of their art over the last century. Author Toba Singer polled scores of dance ... |
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Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture
ISBN: 9780299124441 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In Sharing the Dance, Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and cultural contexts. This book examines the ways contact improvisers (and their surrounding communities) encode sexuality, spontaneity, and gender roles, as well as concepts of the self and society in their dancing.
While focusing on the changing practice of contact improvisation through two decades of social transformation, Novack's work incorporates the history of rock dancing and disco, the modern and experimental dance movements of Merce Cunningham,... In Sharing the Dance, Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and cultural cont...
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138,59 zł |
Nutcracker Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World
ISBN: 9780300105995 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds of communities across the United States and Canada every Christmas season. In this entertainingly informative book, Jennifer Fisher offers new insights into the Nutcracker phenomenon, examining it as a dance scholar and critic, a former participant, an observer of popular culture, and an interviewer of those who dance, present, and watch the beloved ballet. The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds of communities across the United States and Canada e... |
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211,22 zł |
Nijinsky, Pavlova, Duncan: Three Lives in Dance
ISBN: 9780306800351 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Long out of print, the three beautiful volumes contained here offer the modern reader a rare opportunity to see Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Isadora Duncan through the eyes of their contemporaries and admirers, and to share the excitement they were causing at the height of their careers. Originally published in conjunction with the Ballet Society, founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein, the books present essays, reviews, memoirs, photographs, and sketches, many of which are had to find elsewhere. These books are companions to the art of Nijinsky, Pavlova, and Duncan,...
Long out of print, the three beautiful volumes contained here offer the modern reader a rare opportunity to see Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Isa...
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138,83 zł |
A Dictionary Of Ballet Terms
ISBN: 9780306800948 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Explains the steps, movements, and other vernacular of ballet through line drawings and references to dances in which they are found.
Explains the steps, movements, and other vernacular of ballet through line drawings and references to dances in which they are found.
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Dance, Space and Subjectivity
ISBN: 9780333919736 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist theories. It explores the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity. By focusing on site-specific dance, the mutual construction of bodies and spaces, body-space interfaces and 'in-between spaces', the dances and dance films are read 'against the grain' to reveal their potential for troubling conventional notions of subjectivity associated with a white, Western, heterosexual able-bodied, male norm.
This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist the...
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384,63 zł |
Understanding Dance
ISBN: 9780415078108 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Understanding Dance is a comprehensive introduction to the aestethetics of dance, and will be an essential text for all those interested in dance as an object of study.
Focusing on the work of a number of major choreographers, companies and critics Graham McFee explores the nature of our understanding of Dance by considering the practice of understanding dance-works themselves. He concludes with a validation of the place of dance in society and in education. Troughout he provides detailed insights into the nature and appreciation of art as well as a general grouding in philosophy. Understanding Dance is a comprehensive introduction to the aestethetics of dance, and will be an essential text for all those interested in dance as a...
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255,09 zł |
From Petipa to Balanchine: Classical Revival and the Modernisation of Ballet
ISBN: 9780415092227 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century. In the light of a thoughtful re-appraisal of dance classicism he locates the roots of modern ballet in the works of Marius Petipa, rather than in the much-celebrated choreographic experiements of Diaghilev's Ballet Russe.
Not only is this the first book to present nineteenth- and twentieth-century ballet as a continuous rather than broken tradition, From Petipa to Balanchine places works such as... In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the mid...
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702,94 zł |
Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance
ISBN: 9780415125437 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Moving Words provides a direct line into the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, as well as insights into ways in which dance contributes to and creates culture. Instead of representing a single viewpoint, the essays in this volume reflect a range of perspectives and represent the debates swirling within dance.
The contributors confront basic questions of definition and interpretation within dance studies, while at the same time examining broader issues, such as the body, gender, class, race, nationalism and cross-cultural exchange. Specific essays address... Moving Words provides a direct line into the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, as well as insights into ways in which d...
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Anarchic Dance [With DVD-ROM]
ISBN: 9780415365161 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humour. Anarchic Dance, consisting of a book and DVD-Rom, is a visual and textual record of their boundary-shattering performance work. The DVD-Rom features extracts from Aggiss and Cowie's work, including the highly-acclaimed dance film Motion Control (premiered on BBC2 in 2002), rare video footage of their punk-comic live performances as The... Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance perfo... |
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Anarchic Dance [With DVD-ROM]
ISBN: 9780415365178 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humor. They have created dance theatre, cabaret, live art, single and multiple screen dance installations, and live performance installations.
"Anarchic Dance "is a visual and textual record of the work of Divas Dance Theatre. The DVD-Rom included in the package features extracts from Aggiss and Cowie's work, including the highly-acclaimed dance film Motion... Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performa...
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223,85 zł |
Yes? No! Maybe...: Seductive Ambiguity in Dance
ISBN: 9780415371568 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Covering fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, Yes? No Maybe is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance. Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic theory and historical narrative to create a dynamic approach to dance writing. Using the 1970s revolution of new dance as a hinge, Claid looks back to ballet and forward to British independent dance which is new dance's legacy. She explores the shifts in performer-spectator... Covering fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, ... |
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702,94 zł |
Ballet in Western Culture: A History of Its Origins and Evolution
ISBN: 9780415942577 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Parliamentary democracy is the most common way of organizing delegation and accountability in contemporary democracies. Yet knowledge of this type of regime has been incomplete and often unsystematic. This book aims to provide conceptual clarity on the topic. Taking principal-agent theory as its framework, the work illustrates how a variety of apparently unrelated representation issues can now be understood. This procedure allows scholarship to move well beyond what have previously been cloudy and confusing debates aimed at defining the virtues and perils of parliamentarism.
Parliamentary democracy is the most common way of organizing delegation and accountability in contemporary democracies. Yet knowledge of this type of ...
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192,60 zł |