International Encyclopedia of Dance: 6-Volume Set
ISBN: 9780195173697 / Angielski / Miękka / 4048 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its 1998 publication, the International Encyclopedia of Dance has been the definitive source on this expressive art form, documenting all types of dance around the world and throughout history. Now available in an affordable, attractive paperback edition, this indispensable reference makes a stunning addition to the small library.
In six volumes, the Encyclopedia offers authoritative coverage of the full spectrum of dance, including theatrical, ritual dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Extensive historical and cultural overviews of many nations appear along... Since its 1998 publication, the International Encyclopedia of Dance has been the definitive source on this expressive art form, documenting all types ...
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Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
ISBN: 9780306808784 / Angielski / Miękka / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. Under the direction of impresario extraordinaire Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929), the Ballets Russes radically transformed the nature of ballet--its subject matter, movement idiom, choreographic style, stage space, music, scenic design, costume, even the dancer's physical appearance. From 1909 to 1929, it nurtured some of the greatest choreographers in dance history--Fokine, Nijinsky, Massine, and Balanchine--and created such classics as Les Sylphides, Firebird,...
In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. Under the direction of...
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164,08 zł |
Advice for Dancers: Emotional Counsel and Practical Strategies
ISBN: 9780787964061 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dancers experience pain, joy, frustration, rapture, failure, applause, and are above the worldly concerns of food, money, and financial security. They live only to dance.
Or do they? The reality is dancers of all ages, types, and skill levels often experience incredible physical and psychological stress and have traditionally bore their pain in stoic silence. In this much needed new book, Dance Magazine's Linda Hamilton offers dancers the same type of advice and understanding they have come to trust from her popular monthly column. Psychologist... Dancers experience pain, joy, frustration, rapture, failure, applause, and are above the worldly concerns of food, money, and financial security. T...
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92,77 zł |
Dance Pathologies: Performance, Poetics, Medicine
ISBN: 9780804729895 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of dance's pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body's transcendence of itself. Exploring dance's historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a -pathology, - this book asks what has subtended the idealization of dance in the West. It investigates the nineteenth-century response, in the intersections of dance, literature, and medicine, to the complex and long-standing connections between illness, madness, poetry, and performance. In the nineteenth century, medicine becomes a major cultural...
A history of dance's pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body's transcenden...
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601,69 zł |
Dance Pathologies: Performance, Poetics, Medicine
ISBN: 9780804735247 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of dance's pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body's transcendence of itself. Exploring dance's historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a -pathology, - this book asks what has subtended the idealization of dance in the West. It investigates the nineteenth-century response, in the intersections of dance, literature, and medicine, to the complex and long-standing connections between illness, madness, poetry, and performance. In the nineteenth century, medicine becomes a major cultural...
A history of dance's pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body's transcenden...
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145,18 zł |
Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry
ISBN: 9780822956846 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Researching Dance, an introduction to research methods in dance addressed primarily to graduate students, the editors explore dance as evolutional, defining it in view of its intrinsic participatory values, its developmental aspects, and its purposes from art to ritual, and they examine the role of theory in research. The editors have also included essays by nine dancer-scholars who examine qualitative and quantitative inquiry and delineate the most common approaches for investigating dance, raising concerns about philosophy and aesthetics, historical scholarship, movement analysis,...
In Researching Dance, an introduction to research methods in dance addressed primarily to graduate students, the editors explore dance as evolu...
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300,52 zł |
The Thinking Body
ISBN: 9780871270146 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1937, this classic in the study of human physiology and the effect of psychological and mental processes on human movement is a favorite of dancers, students of motor development, and all those concerned with questions of human fitness.
Originally published in 1937, this classic in the study of human physiology and the effect of psychological and mental processes on human movement is ...
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108,19 zł |
Mastering Movement: The Life and Work of Rudolf Laban
ISBN: 9780878300808 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like Picasso in painting, Stravinsky in music, or Stanislavski in theatre, Rudolf Laban (1879 1958) has been a seminal influence in contemporary arts. This is the first major study of Laban's movement theories and practice, exploring the ideas on mastering movement and giving the reader a practical understanding of balance and harmony in the human body the core of Laban's thinking. John Hodgson looks at the different phases of Laban's life and writings to show that Laban's thoughts about human movement and its mastery and control are the building blocks for a practical understanding... Like Picasso in painting, Stravinsky in music, or Stanislavski in theatre, Rudolf Laban (1879 1958) has been a seminal influence in contemporary ar... |
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191,87 zł |
Dance Composition: A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making
ISBN: 9780878301973 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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181,49 zł |
The Dancer's Foot Book: A Complete Guide to Foot Care
ISBN: 9780916622961 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A complete guide to the common foot injuries of dancers in ballet, modern, jazz, and aerobic dance. Includes information for dance students, professionals, and teachers. Covers basic foot anatomy and has an alphabetical listing of injuries with recommended treatments.
A complete guide to the common foot injuries of dancers in ballet, modern, jazz, and aerobic dance. Includes information for dance students, professio...
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86,51 zł |
Dance Arranging
ISBN: 9781406761535 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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140,81 zł |
Rhythm and Timing of Movement in Performance: Drama, Dance and Ceremony
ISBN: 9781853025488 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'To be in the wrong rhythm is to be out of kilter. To be in the right rhythm is to be part of - entrained with - something greater than oneself. And to be self-aware of the effectiveness and possibilities of timing is to permit innovation, creativity, and individuality. Janet Goodridge's Rhythm and Timing of Movement in Performance is a clearly written and enjoyable explication of how rhythm produces effects that can be said to "work" this text is itself a timely intervention, particularly given a context where options for the publication of dance research are limited.' - Journal of the Royal...
'To be in the wrong rhythm is to be out of kilter. To be in the right rhythm is to be part of - entrained with - something greater than oneself. And t...
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218,40 zł |
Dance Words
ISBN: 9783718656059 / Angielski / Miękka / 738 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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181,49 zł |
Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250a 1750
ISBN: 9780253219855 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the mid-13th to the mid-18th century the ability to dance was an important social skill for both men and women. Dance performances were an integral part of court ceremonies and festivals and, in the 17th and 18th centuries, of commercial theatrical productions. Whether at court or in the public theater danced spectacles were multimedia events that required close collaboration among artists, musicians, designers, engineers, and architects as well as choreographers. In order to fully understand these practices, it is necessary to move beyond a consideration of dance alone, and to... From the mid-13th to the mid-18th century the ability to dance was an important social skill for both men and women. Dance performances were an int... |
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114,06 zł |
Swing Dance Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9781434359605 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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206,16 zł |
Dance Words
ISBN: 9783718656011 / Angielski / Twarda / 738 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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674,31 zł |
Writing Dancing Together
ISBN: 9780230535640 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews discuss dances often with visual art, theatre, film and music, drawing on continental philosophy to explore notions of space, time, identity, sensation, memory and ethics.
With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews ...
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191,40 zł |
Dance Degree Programs
ISBN: 9781441501189 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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163,86 zł |
Dance Degree Programs
ISBN: 9781441501172 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,02 zł |
Conditioning for Dancers
ISBN: 9780813033907 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Take control of your conditioning regimen
"Well-organized, to the point, easy to read and full of practical and earnest advice for athletes." Karen Kain, artistic director, National Ballet of Canada "This well-rounded book deals with important issues that all dance professionals should know about." John White, author ofAdvanced Principles in Teaching Classical Ballet Dancers must learn to negotiate a truly amazing range of physical demands to achieve peak performance and avoid injury. Through hours of rehearsal, technique classes, and performances, both full- and... Take control of your conditioning regimen
"Well-organized, to the point, easy to read and full of practical and earnest advice for athlete... |
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130,77 zł |