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The Encyclopedia of World Ballet
ISBN: 9781442245259 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the centuries, ballet has had a rich and ever-evolving role in the humanities. Renowned choreographers, composers, and performers have contributed to this unique art form, staging enduring works of beauty. Significant productions by major companies embrace innovations and adaptations, enabling ballet to thrive and delight audiences all over the globe. In The Encyclopedia of World Ballet, Mary Ellen Snodgrass surveys the emergence of ballet from ancient Asian models to the present, providing overviews of rhythmic movement as a subject of art, photography, and cinema. Entries in this...
Throughout the centuries, ballet has had a rich and ever-evolving role in the humanities. Renowned choreographers, composers, and performers have cont...
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496,76 |
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Dancing monkeys under a monkey tree
ISBN: 9781507588192 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DANCING MONKEYS UNDER A MONKEY TREE. You can be a monkey too dancing under a monkey tree. Monkeys are full of curiosity, fun, jump, bump, dance and summer salt through your day. Bananna not banana, her name is Bananna and she lives next door to Kay and Jay Colourfree who live under the monkey tree, for the monkey tree is the place to be. Bananna is a dancer and dancing is what she loves to do all day long with a song La la la la la. I would like to encourage you to find your inner monkey and go dance and play with other monkeys.
DANCING MONKEYS UNDER A MONKEY TREE. You can be a monkey too dancing under a monkey tree. Monkeys are full of curiosity, fun, jump, bump, dance and su...
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61,07 |
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Women, Dance and Revolution: Performance and Protest in the Southern Mediterranean
ISBN: 9781784532482 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria have undergone major turmoil in recent years, with civil war, occupation and uprising. Women, Dance and Revolution offers a highly original perspective on the political and cultural tensions through the experiences of contemporary dance practitioners from the region. It shows how these women all established performers, choreographers and teachers have responded to the changes brought about by the troubles. Through dance they engage in public protest and performance, endure...
The countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria have undergone major turmoil in ...
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645,78 |
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I Balletti Russi
ISBN: 9781507895689 / Włoski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ellen Terry e stata una grande attrice inglese, probabilmente una delle migliori interpreti shakespeariane, ma con questo libro passa dall'altra parte della barriera e si cala nel ruolo di spettatrice, anzi, di spettatrice entusiasta. Perche la compagnia dei Balletti Russi, con le sue coreografie innovative, e stata una delle realta piu travolgenti nella storia della danza classica e del teatro del Novecento in generale. L'autrice quindi analizza la compagnia e alcune delle sue produzioni piu famose dandone, come lei stessa afferma, "piu impressioni personali che critiche." Vediamo quindi...
Ellen Terry e stata una grande attrice inglese, probabilmente una delle migliori interpreti shakespeariane, ma con questo libro passa dall'altra parte...
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Defiant Itineraries: Caribbean Paradigms in American Dance and Film
ISBN: 9781137475534 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance creations of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham and the experimental films of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren. An intercultural discussion that refers to alternative subjectivities for black dancing bodies within the existing paradigms of the American public, Platon Lazaro reflects on the cultural discourses in the two contemporary artistic fields of dance and film.
How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an ...
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Art in Motion: Current Research in Screendance / Art En Mouvement: Recherches Actuelles En Cina-Danse
ISBN: 9781443871266 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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250,94 |
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Geographies of Dance: Body, Movement, and Corporeal Negotiations
ISBN: 9781498520737 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between dance and geography. It includes articles from geographers, anthropologists, dance historians, architects, and urban planners and examines how dance uses, transforms and gives meaning to the everyday spaces we inhabit.
This book is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between dance and geography. It includes articles from geographers, anthropologis...
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248,33 |
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How to Teach Preschool Ballet: : A Guidebook for Teachers
ISBN: 9781500631567 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,80 |
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A Ballerina For Our Time: Olga Pavlova
ISBN: 9781505354942 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Her luxurious attack and fearlessness set her apart from other great dancers of her generation.""Christopher Wheeldon, British choreographer and former Royal Ballet dancer
""I will always remember Olga with her distinct individuality . . . her precision . . . and great charisma.""Maya Plisetskaya, Russian Prima Ballerina Assoluta ""She is one of my best memories in my career. She's probably the last great ballerina I've had a chance to work with.""Paul Mejia, protege of George Balanchine and former New York City Ballet principal A Ballerina For Our Timeis the stunning... ""Her luxurious attack and fearlessness set her apart from other great dancers of her generation.""Christopher Wheeldon, British choreographer and for...
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When Ballet Became French: Modern Ballet and the Cultural Politics of France, 1909-1939
ISBN: 9780773546059 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries before the 1789 revolution, ballet was a source of great cultural pride for France, but by the twentieth century the art form had deteriorated along with France's international standing. It was not until Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes found success in Paris during the first decade of the new century that France embraced the opportunity to restore ballet to its former glory and transform it into a hallmark of the nation. In When Ballet Became French, Ilyana Karthas explores the revitalization of ballet and its crucial significance to French culture during a period of momentous...
For centuries before the 1789 revolution, ballet was a source of great cultural pride for France, but by the twentieth century the art form had deteri...
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183,80 |
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Fanny Elssler: The Pagan Ballerina
ISBN: 9781852731687 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fanny Elssler was one of the most brilliant stars of the Romantic ballet. The accepted rival of Taglioni, she represented the passionate expression of the dance. Theophile Gautier distinguished the two ballerinas by describing Elssler as a pagan dancer and Taglioni as a Christian dancer. There was no doubt that it was Elssler he preferred. Her style found its true expression in her famous Spanish character dance: the Cachucha, but even more, it was her dramatic genius that conquered the audiences before whom she appeared. She approached, more closely than any other ballerina of her time, the...
Fanny Elssler was one of the most brilliant stars of the Romantic ballet. The accepted rival of Taglioni, she represented the passionate expression of...
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Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in This World
ISBN: 9781909470637 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it actually mean to embody an idea or action? What has somatic practice to offer the teaching and development of modern dance? How can an investigation of our embodied movement open up the possibility of making new choices - on an individual, social, cultural or political level? How can somatic practice be used to open up intercultural dialogue? How can embodied art exist alongside social and religious practice? How far should either aspire to inform or alter the other? How can practices like The Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais and Chiropractic more fully influence dance, movement...
What does it actually mean to embody an idea or action? What has somatic practice to offer the teaching and development of modern dance? How can an in...
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Ballet Body Narratives: Pain, Pleasure and Perfection in Embodied Identity
ISBN: 9783034317863 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ballet Body Narratives is an ethnographic exploration of the social world of classical ballet and the embodiment of young ballet dancers as they engage in -becoming a dancer- in ballet school in England. In contrast to the largely disembodied sociological literature of the body, this book places the corporeal body as central to the examination and reveals significant relationships between body, society and identity. Drawing on academic scholarship as well as rich ballet body narratives from young dancers, this book investigates how young ballet dancers bodies are lived, experienced and...
Ballet Body Narratives is an ethnographic exploration of the social world of classical ballet and the embodiment of young ballet dancers as the...
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283,68 |
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Eight Female Classical Ballet Variations
ISBN: 9780190227098 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the graceful flutter of Princess Florine at Sleeping Beauty's wedding to the playful jetees in the first act of Giselle, the variation - or short solo work - is one of the key elements of classical ballet. Arguing that true artistry requires in-depth knowledge, author Nina Danilova has worked with students for many years to focus on performing individual variations with the greatest extent of technical proficiency and artistic sensitivity. Eight Female Classical Ballet Variations lays out eight variations in the ballerina's repertoire. Each chapter is divided into five...
From the graceful flutter of Princess Florine at Sleeping Beauty's wedding to the playful jetees in the first act of Giselle, the variation - or short...
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629,86 |
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Eight Female Classical Ballet Variations
ISBN: 9780190227104 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the graceful flutter of Princess Florine at Sleeping Beauty's wedding to the playful jetees in the first act of Giselle, the variation - or short solo work - is one of the key elements of classical ballet. Arguing that true artistry requires in-depth knowledge, author Nina Danilova has worked with students for many years to focus on performing individual variations with the greatest extent of technical proficiency and artistic sensitivity. Eight Female Classical Ballet Variations lays out eight variations in the ballerina's repertoire. Each chapter is divided into five...
From the graceful flutter of Princess Florine at Sleeping Beauty's wedding to the playful jetees in the first act of Giselle, the variation - or short...
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260,43 |
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Le Rameau d'Or, Un Conte de Fees et Ballet pour les Enfants
ISBN: 9781514179895 / Francuski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,33 |
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La Rama Dorada, Un Ballet Folklorico para Ninos
ISBN: 9781514187531 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,33 |
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Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-Fashioning in Urban Senegal
ISBN: 9781785330384 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Reading Helene Neveu Kringelbach's ethnography, Dance Circles, took me on one of the most intellectually stimulating journeys that I have ever experienced... It] is excellent because the author destroys the enduring belief that dance is innate to Africans. Generous space is given to learning processes, questions of transmission, and performers' reflective practice...Historians of dance will draw on innovative themes of inquiry in their field. Anthropologists will marvel at the dense ethnographic detail. This grounded ethnography indeed invites a careful reading. In other words, one does...
"Reading Helene Neveu Kringelbach's ethnography, Dance Circles, took me on one of the most intellectually stimulating journeys that I have ever exp...
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Wilde Times: Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the Rise of New York City Ballet
ISBN: 9781611688030 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At eighty-seven, Patricia Wilde remains a grande dame of the ballet world. As a young star she toured America in the company of the Ballet Russe. In her heyday in the 1950s and '60s, she was a first-generation member and principal dancer of New York City Ballet during the uniquely dramatic Balanchine era--the golden age of the company and its hugely gifted, influential, exploitative, and dictatorial director. In Wilde Times, Joel Lobenthal brings the world of Wilde and Balanchine, of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Diana Adams, Suzanne Farrell, Maria Tallchief, and many others thrillingly to life. With...
At eighty-seven, Patricia Wilde remains a grande dame of the ballet world. As a young star she toured America in the company of the Ballet Russe. In h...
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120,27 |
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Flame Flower
ISBN: 9781517784799 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classical drama.based on Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." A restless Wind finds a Flower of Flame hidden in a cave. They fall in love. She wants to be free from the soil that holds her so she can follow her love. She is hurt when she leaves the soil. She dies. Wind is filled with remorse but leaves filled with the scent of her fragrance.
A classical drama.based on Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." A restless Wind finds a Flower of Flame hidden in a cave. They fall in love. She wants ...
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61,52 |