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Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange
ISBN: 9780199958191 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the twenty-first century, American dancers toured the globe on tours sponsored by the US State Department. Dancers as Diplomats tells the story of how these tours shaped and some times re-imagined ideas of the United States in unexpected, often sensational circumstances-pirouetting in Moscow as the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded and dancing in Burma shortly before the country held its first democratic elections. Based on more than seventy...
Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the tw...
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632,70 |
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Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange
ISBN: 9780199958214 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the twenty-first century, American dancers toured the globe on tours sponsored by the US State Department. Dancers as Diplomats tells the story of how these tours shaped and some times re-imagined ideas of the United States in unexpected, often sensational circumstances-pirouetting in Moscow as the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded and dancing in Burma shortly before the country held its first democratic elections. Based on more than seventy...
Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the tw...
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173,29 |
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Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes
ISBN: 9780199916559 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde theatrical and movement productions of the early twentieth-century. Author Gabriele Brandstetter established in this book not only a relation between dance and critical theory, but in fact a full interdisciplinary methodology that quickly found foothold with other areas of research within dance...
When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the re...
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679,10 |
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Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes
ISBN: 9780199916573 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde theatrical and movement productions of the early twentieth-century. Author Gabriele Brandstetter established in this book not only a relation between dance and critical theory, but in fact a full interdisciplinary methodology that quickly found foothold with other areas of research within dance...
When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the re...
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275,42 |
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Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet
ISBN: 9780143127024 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -A glimpse into the fragile psyche of a dancer.- --The Washington Post
Jenifer Ringer, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, was thrust into the headlines after her weight was commented on by a New York Times critic, and her response ignited a public dialogue about dance and weight. Ballet aficionados and aspiring performers of all ages will want to join Ringer behind the scenes as she shares her journey from student to star and candidly discusses both her struggle with an eating disorder and the media storm that erupted after the Times review. An unusually... -A glimpse into the fragile psyche of a dancer.- --The Washington Post
Jenifer Ringer, a principal dancer with the New York City Bal... |
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92,48 |
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Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer: Moving Identities
ISBN: 9781137429841 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspectives, drawn from interviews, current writing and evocative accounts from inside the choreographic process, illuminating the myriad ways that dancers contribute to the production of dance culture.
This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspecti...
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269,68 |
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Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871-1913
ISBN: 9781580464420 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pioneering study of Parisian music-hall ballet brings to light a vibrant dance culture that was central to the renewal of French ballet at the turn of the twentieth century. Long thought a lost period for ballet in France, the fin de siecle in fact saw a flourishing of choreographic activity. More than four hundred ballets were created to great acclaim, half of which were full-scale pantomime-ballets, with entertaining narratives, catchy music, titillating choreography, lavish sets and costumes, appealing corps girls, and star ballerinas. Most of these productions were staged not at the...
This pioneering study of Parisian music-hall ballet brings to light a vibrant dance culture that was central to the renewal of French ballet at the tu...
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563,24 |
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Alla Osipenko: Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet
ISBN: 9780190253707 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State. She studied with Agrippina Vaganova, the most revered and influential of all Russian ballet instructors, and in 1950, she joined the Mariinsky (then-Kirov) Ballet, where her lines, shapes, and movements both exemplified the venerable traditions of Russian ballet and propelled those traditions forward into uncharted and experimental realms. She was the first of her generation of Kirov stars to enchant the West when she danced in...
Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the ...
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182,57 |
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TANZ - ein bewegtes und bewegendes Medium für die Schule: Kommunikation mit Tanz fördern und unterstützen
ISBN: 9783958508910 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Erziehungsstile, Methoden der Wissensvermittlung und zu lehrende Inhalte sind einem standigen Wandel ausgesetzt. Tanzstile sind gesellschaftlich gepragt und wirken auf die jeweilige Gesellschaft ein. Um Schule neu zu gestalten, bedarf es einer padagogischen Haltung, die vertrauensvoll viel geistige und korperliche Bewegung zulasst. Provokativpadagogisch arbeiten meint, Menschen anzuregen, neue Denk-, Bewegungs- und Kommunikationsmodelle zu nutzen, um beziehungsorientiert zu arbeiten. Der Dialog nach Bohm wird fur eine achtsame Kommunikation mit den Schuler_innen geubt. Das Agieren und...
Erziehungsstile, Methoden der Wissensvermittlung und zu lehrende Inhalte sind einem standigen Wandel ausgesetzt. Tanzstile sind gesellschaftlich gepra...
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178,88 |
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Barre Fitness: Barre Exercises You Can Do Anywhere for Flexibility, Core Strength, and a Lean Body
ISBN: 9781592336913 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Step up to the barre and strengthen your core with 100 at-home barre exercises Infused with elements of ballet, barre classes were introduced by Lotte Berk in the 1970s as a new way to combine dance with traditional exercise. Just about any barre class will involve a lot of reps of small, pulsing movements (lifting and lowering limbs a mere inch or two) at the barre, with a heavy focus on the legs, glutes, and core and emphasis on form and alignment. Barre Fitness provides 100 at-home barre exercises from the fundamentals to more complex moves with a focus on... Step up to the barre and strengthen your core with 100 at-home barre exercises Infused with elements of ballet, barre classes were i... |
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107,86 |
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Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body
ISBN: 9780199794010 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria, author Mark Franko analyzes court ballet librettos, contemporary performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in the literature of this period. Examining the formal choreographic apparatus that characterizes late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle, Franko postulates that the evolving aesthetic ultimately...
Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, ...
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298,62 |
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Using the Sky: A Dance
ISBN: 9781138914353 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the mid 1990 s Deborah Hay s work took a new turn. From her early experiments with untrained dancers, and after a decade of focusing on solo work, the choreographer began to explore new grounds of choreographic notation and transmission by working with experienced performers and choreographers. " Using the Sky: a dance" follows a similar path as Hay s previous books "Lamb at the Altar "and "My Body the Buddhist" by exploring her unrelenting quest for ways to both define and rethink her choreographic imagery through a broad range of alternately intimate, descriptive, poetic,... In the mid 1990 s Deborah Hay s work took a new turn. From her early experiments with untrained dancers, and after a decade of focusing on solo wor... |
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710,17 |
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Erotic Performance and Spectatorship: New Frontiers in Erotic Dance
ISBN: 9781138932364 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Erotic dance is one of the most contentious issues in feminist debates today and a source of fascination in media and popular cultural representations. Yet, why is it that we currently know so little about those who perform erotic dance for female customers, or the experiences of these spectators themselves? The result of a unique investigation within two of the UK s leisure venues, Erotic Performance and Spectatorship seeks to rectify the aforementioned lack of insight. Through vivid ethnographies of a lesbian leisure venue and a male strip show, Pilcher s research advances key... Erotic dance is one of the most contentious issues in feminist debates today and a source of fascination in media and popular cultural representati... |
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710,17 |
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Dancing Star: The Story of Anna Pavlova
ISBN: 9781504030250 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this biographical novel, Gladys Malvern shares the incredible story of Anna Pavlova, one of the most revered and celebrated ballerinas of all time. Malvern presents Pavlova's life in enchanting prose, allowing the reader to experience Pavlova's inspirational first exposure to a performance of Sleeping Beauty, the origination of her defining dance The Dying Swan, her illustrious rise to fame as a prima ballerina, and her extensive world tours. You don't have to be a fan of the ballet to enjoy this captivating tale, available for the first time in ebook."
In this biographical novel, Gladys Malvern shares the incredible story of Anna Pavlova, one of the most revered and celebrated ballerinas of all time....
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46,20 |
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What Moves You?: Shaping Your Dissertation in Dance
ISBN: 9781138857292 / Angielski / Twarda / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for Dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made research methodology. What Moves You? fosters a creative approach to dissertations and final projects. By guiding the development of a personal study program, this volume encourages Dance students to take ownership of their artistic and academic work, a skill essential both to successful undergraduate study, and to making the first steps towards a career in Dance. Rather than propose a prescriptive, step-by-step mantra,... Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for Dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made resea... |
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747,55 |
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What Moves You?: Shaping your dissertation in dance
ISBN: 9781138857308 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made research methodology. What Moves You? fosters a creative approach to dissertations and final projects. By guiding the development of a personal study program, this volume encourages dance students to take ownership of their artistic and academic work, a skill essential both to successful undergraduate study, and to making the first steps towards a career in dance. Rather than propose a prescriptive, step-by-step mantra,... Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made resea... |
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195,86 |
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Dancing Genius: The Stardom of Vaslav Nijinsky
ISBN: 9781349488223 / Angielski / Miękka / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authorship in dance, about critical evaluation of performance practice, and the manner in which past events are turned into history.
Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authorship...
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402,53 |
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Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer: Moving Identities
ISBN: 9781349491933 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspectives, drawn from interviews, current writing and evocative accounts from inside the choreographic process, illuminating the myriad ways that dancers contribute to the production of dance culture.
This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspecti...
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201,24 |
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Robert Le Diable: The Ballet of the Nuns
ISBN: 9781906830762 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Robert le Diable - The Ballet of the Nuns' offers a new approach to the study of one of the most epoch-making works in European ballet history. Based on the choreographic notations made by the great nineteenth-century Danish choreographer, August Bournonville, this spectral dance scene has been recreated by Dr. Knud Arne Jurgensen with the precision afforded by Labanotation, here recorded by Ann Hutchinson Guest. Supported by extensive historical source materials and study and performance notes, the book not only enables us to unearth a hitherto lost ballet from the Romantic period, but also...
'Robert le Diable - The Ballet of the Nuns' offers a new approach to the study of one of the most epoch-making works in European ballet history. Based...
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215,80 |
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Dance, Consumerism, and Spirituality
ISBN: 9781349499236 / Angielski / Miękka / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dance has proliferated in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while the spiritual power of dance has also been linked with mass consumption. Walter marries the cultural studies of dance and the religious aspects of dance in an exploration of consumption rituals, including rituals of being persuaded to buy products that include dance.
Dance has proliferated in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while the spiritual power of dance has also been linked with mass consumptio...
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201,24 |