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Author : Ian Driver
Publisher : Hamlyn
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106016129600
From ballroom dancing to breakdancing, this book offers an intimate, engaging exploration of dance.
Author : Lynn Garafola
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819566748
Selected writings illuminate a century of international dance.
Author : Julie Malnig
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814755280
Malnig examines exhibition ballroom dance as both a theatrical genre and a cultural and social phenomenon, promoting new cultural standards, including the emancipation of women and a new casualness and spontaneity between the sexes. A lively and thorough account of a dance form that has found renewed popularity in recent years.
Author : Lindsay Guarino,Carlos R.A. Jones,Wendy Oliver
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813072111
National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award UNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education An African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and untaught, and the devaluation of its Africanist origins and lineage has largely gone unchallenged. Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography in the twenty-first century, recovering and affirming the lifeblood of jazz in Africanist aesthetics and Black American culture. Rooted Jazz Dance brings together jazz dance scholars, practitioners, choreographers, and educators from across the United States and Canada with the goal of changing the course of practice in future generations. Contributors delve into the Africanist elements within jazz dance and discuss the role of Whiteness, including Eurocentric technique and ideology, in marginalizing African American vernacular dance, which has resulted in the prominence of Eurocentric jazz styles and the systemic erosion of the roots. These chapters offer strategies for teaching rooted jazz dance, examples for changing dance curricula, and artist perspectives on choreographing and performing jazz. Above all, they emphasize the importance of centering Africanist and African American principles, aesthetics, and values. Arguing that the history of jazz dance is closely tied to the history of racism in the United States, these essays challenge a century of misappropriation and lean into difficult conversations of reparations for jazz dance. This volume overcomes a major roadblock to racial justice in the dance field by amplifying the people and culture responsible for the jazz language. Contributors: LaTasha Barnes | Lindsay Guarino | Natasha Powell | Carlos R.A. Jones | Rubim de Toledo | Kim Fuller | Wendy Oliver | Joanne Baker | Karen Clemente | Vicki Adams Willis | Julie Kerr-Berry | Pat Taylor | Cory Bowles | Melanie George | Paula J Peters | Patricia Cohen | Brandi Coleman | Kimberley Cooper | Monique Marie Haley | Jamie Freeman Cormack | Adrienne Hawkins | Karen Hubbard | Lynnette Young Overby | Jessie Metcalf McCullough | E. Moncell Durden Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Author : Maureen O'Hara
Publisher : Triarchy Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781908009289
Maureen O'Hara and Graham Leicester explore the competencies - the ways of being, doing, knowing and organising - that can help us navigate in complex and powerful times. They argue that these competencies are innate and within reach of all of us - given the right setting, plenty of practice and some gentle guidance. But they are seldom seen because they are routinely undervalued in today's culture. That must change, the authors insist, and this book is intended to begin that change.The book is based on the authors' extensive research and their practical experience observing the qualities demonstrated by some of today's most successful cultural, political and business leaders. They write of 'persons of tomorrow' that they have witnessed:"e;We find that people who are thriving in the contemporary world, who give us the sense of having it all together and being able to act effectively and with good spirit in challenging circumstances, have some identifiable characteristics in common... They are the people already among us who inhabit the complex and messy problems of the 21st century in a more expansive way than their colleagues. They do not reduce such problems to the scale of the tools available to them, or hide behind those tools when they know they are partial and inadequate. They are less concerned with 'doing the right thing' according to standard procedure than they are with really doing the right thing in the moment, in specific cases, with the individuals involved at the time. In a disciplined yet engaging way they are always pushing boundaries, including their own. They dance at the edge."e;
Author : Jennifer Nevile
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789004377738
Jennifer Nevile provides new, fascinating and detailed information on the life of an early-seventeenth-century dance master. The handwritten notebook contains unique material which is reproduced in facsimile, together with transcriptions and translations.
Author : Nancy Reynolds,Malcolm McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0300259328
Author : Egil Bakka,Theresa Jill Buckland,Helena Saarikoski ,Anne von Bibra Wharton
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783747351
From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. A refreshing intervention in dance studies, this book brings together elements of historiography, cultural memory, folklore, and dance across comparatively narrow but markedly heterogeneous localities. Rooted in investigations of often newly discovered primary sources, the essays afford many opportunities to compare sociocultural and political reactions to the arrival and practice of popular rotating couple dances, such as the Waltz and the Polka. Leading contributors provide a transnational and affective lens onto strikingly diverse topics, ranging from the evolution of romantic couple dances in Croatia, and Strauss’s visits to Hamburg and Altona in the 1830s, to dance as a tool of cultural preservation and expression in twentieth-century Finland. Waltzing Through Europe creates openings for fresh collaborations in dance historiography and cultural history across fields and genres. It is essential reading for researchers of dance in central and northern Europe, while also appealing to the general reader who wants to learn more about the vibrant histories of these familiar dance forms.
Author : Stephanie Jordan
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 1852731257
Stephanie Jordan's ground-breaking survey and close examination of a range of Stravinsky dances - some familiar, others less so - sheds new, unexpected light upon a renowned composer of ballet music.This book is essential reading for scholars and students in the fields of dance, music and interdisciplinary studies.
Author : Danuta Mirka PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199841585
Topics are musical signs developed and employed primarily during the long eighteenth century. Their significance relies on associations that are clearly recognizable to the listener with different genres, styles and types of music making. Topic theory, which is used to explain conventional subjects of musical composition in this period, is grounded in eighteenth-century music theory, aesthetics, and criticism, while drawing also from music cognition and semiotics. The concept of topics was introduced into by Leonard Ratner in the 1980s to account for cross-references between eighteenth-century styles and genres. As the invention of a twentieth-century academic, topic theory as a field is comparatively new, and The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory provides a much-needed reconstruction of the field's aesthetic underpinnings. The volume grounds the concept of topics in eighteenth-century music theory, aesthetics, and criticism. Documenting the historical reality of individual topics on the basis of eighteenth-century sources, it traces the origins of topical mixtures to transformations of eighteenth-century musical life, and relates topical analysis to other methods of music analysis conducted from the perspectives of composers, performers, and listeners. Focusing its scope on eighteenth-century musical repertoire, The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory lays the foundation for further investigation of topics in music of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
Author : Arthur Franks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000394900
Originally published in 1963 and authored by the then Editor of the Dancing Times, this was a pioneer work discussing not only the origins and development of many social dance forms from early times, but also relating these forms to their environment. As well as its role in social history, the book analyses the role of dance as a prime creative power in Renaissance spectacles which depicted and celebrated diplomatic, military and regal occasions. After a wide-ranging introductory chapter on the origins of dancing, the book takes the reader through the centuries, discussing in turn the Basse Danse and the Moresco of the Middle Ages, the Pavane, Galliard and Courante of the 16th Century, the Minuet of the 17th & 18th, the Allemande, the Waltz and the Polka as well as Jazz, the Cha Cha Cha, the Jive and Twist.
Author : Constance Valis Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190225384
The first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, and Savion Glover.
Author : Cadence Whittier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317209829
How do teachers create a classroom environment that promotes collaborative and inquiry-based approaches to learning ballet? How do teachers impart the stylistic qualities of ballet while also supporting each dancer’s artistic instincts and development of a personal style? How does ballet technique education develop the versatility and creativity needed in the contemporary dance environment? Creative Ballet Teaching draws on the fields of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (L/BMA), dance pedagogy, and somatic education to explore these questions. Sample lesson plans, class exercises, movement explorations, and journal writing activities specifically designed for teachers bring these ideas into the studio and classroom. A complementary online manual, Creative Ballet Learning, provides students with tools for technical and artistic development, self-assessment, and reflection. Offering a practical, exciting approach, Creative Ballet Teaching is a must-read for those teaching and learning ballet.
Author : Trenton Hamilton
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680480795
From soaring ballet leaps to the simple swaying at a high school prom, dance is the wedding of movement to music. It is a means of recreation, of communication--for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself. This engaging narrative, with biographical profiles, discusses Western dance as an art form, a folk tradition, and an entertainment spectacle. It examines the wide ranging dance types, including some of ancient rituals, Christian dance ecstasies, court and folk dances, ballet, social dances, the waltz, ballroom, tap, modern dance, and break and hip-hop dancing.
Author : Gay Morris,Jens Richard Giersdorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190201661
'Choreographies of 21st Century Wars' addresses the interface between choreography and war in this century. The book challenges concepts of choreography as solely a structuring mechanism and an aesthetics of politics that is exclusively resistant. Instead, in the context of 21st-century war, it calls for a rethinking of choreography that incorporates the disorder and dispersion of power away from nation-states, which is central to this century. The collection is composed of an introduction and sixteen essays by individual authors who work across a number of disciplines through field notes, case studies, participant observations, and photographs, as well as essays reflecting on war issues and their relationship to choreographic practices.
