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The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques

Melanie Clarke
The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques Book PDF

Author : Melanie Clarke
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781785007002

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The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques explores the multifaceted learning processes and underlying principles behind the technical skills and abilities of a contemporary dancer. The depth and complexity of this challenging sensorial, intellectual, reflective and creative process is presented with clarity, to support every training dancer in achieving the most from their learning experiences. Insights into three major technical forms: Graham technique, Cunningham technique and Release-based technique, reveal the distinct approaches, processes and experiences possible in contemporary dance training. Essential technical and performance considerations are covered, including: breath; alignment; core activation; connectivity; dynamic qualities of motion; use of the body; use of space; action and finally, relationships to the audience. With personal contributions from respected teachers at top dance institutions, this practical guide offers a unique insight into the expectations and processes of professional training classes as well as the success you can achieve with them. With images from real-life technique classes and dynamic performances, this is an essential companion for all contemporary dance students.

Talk about Contemporary Dance

Philippe Noisette
Talk about Contemporary Dance Book PDF

Author : Philippe Noisette
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 2080301705

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Talk about Contemporary Dance by Philippe Noisette Pdf

This engaging and unpretentious introduction to contemporary dance explores the discipline in all its facets, from opera to hip-hop and from circus skills to fashion. A chronology of the key dates in the history of dance, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, provides context on how the art form has evolved over time.

Contemporary Dance in Cuba

Suki John
Contemporary Dance in Cuba Book PDF

Author : Suki John
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786493258

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Contemporary Dance in Cuba by Suki John Pdf

The lens of dance can provide a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban experience. Cuban contemporary dance, or tecnica cubana as it is known throughout Latin America, is a highly evolved hybrid of ballet, North American modern dance, Afro-Cuban tradition, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. Unlike most dance forms, tecnica was created intentionally with government backing. For Cuba, a dancing country, it was natural--and highly effective--for the Revolutionary regime to link national image with the visceral power of dance. Written by a dancer who traveled and worked in Cuba from the 1970s to the present, this book provides an inside look at daily life in Cuba. From watching the great Alicia Alonso, to describing the economic trials of the 1990s "Special Period," the author uses history, humor, personal experience, rich description and extensive interviews to reveal contemporary life and dance in Cuba.

Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance

Ananya Chatterjea
Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance Book PDF

Author : Ananya Chatterjea
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030439125

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Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance by Ananya Chatterjea Pdf

This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core. Differently, the book reimagines contemporary dance along a “South-South” axis, as a poly-centric, justice-oriented, aesthetic-temporal category, with intersectional understandings of difference as a central organizing principle. Placing alterity and heat, generated via multiple pathways, at its center, it foregrounds the work of South-South artists, who push against constructions of “tradition” and white-centered aesthetic imperatives, to reinvent their choreographic toolkit and respond to urgent questions of their times. In recasting the grounds for a different “global stage,” the argument widens its scope to indicate how dance-making both indexes current contextual inequities and broader relations of social, economic, political, and cultural power, and inaugurates future dimensions of justice. Winner of the 2022 Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research

Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance

Annelies Van Assche
Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance Book PDF

Author : Annelies Van Assche
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030406936

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Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance by Annelies Van Assche Pdf

This transdisciplinary study scientifically reports the way the established contemporary dance sector in Europe operates from a micro-perspective. It provides a dance scholarly and sociological interpretation of its mechanisms by coupling qualitative data (interview material, observations, logbooks, and dance performances) to theoretical insights. The book uncovers the sometimes contradicting mechanisms related to the precarious project-oriented labor and art market that determine the working and living conditions of contemporary dance artists in Europe’s dance capitals Brussels and Berlin. In addition, it examines how these working and living conditions affect the work process and outcome. From a sociological perspective, the book engages with the relevant contemporary social issue of precarity and this within the much-at-risk professional group of contemporary dance artists. In this regard, the research brings novelty within the subject area, particularly by employing a unique methodological approach. Although the research is initially set up in a specific geographical context and within a specific research population, the book offers insights into issues that affect our neoliberal society at large. The research findings show potential to make a relevant contribution with regards to precarity within dance studies and performance studies, but also labor studies and cultural sociology.

Moving Relation

Gerko Egert
Moving Relation Book PDF

Author : Gerko Egert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429632372

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Moving Relation by Gerko Egert Pdf

Moving Relation explores the notion of touch in the realm of contemporary dance. By closely analyzing performances by well-known European and American choreographers such as Meg Stuart, William Forsythe, Xavier Le Roy, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot, this book investigates their usage of touch on the level of movement, experience and affect. Building on the proposition that touch is more than the moment of bodily contact, the author demonstrates the concept of touch as an interplay of movements and multiple relations of proximity. Egert employs both depth, using close descriptions and analyses of dance performances with theoretical investigations of touch, with breadth, working across the fields of performance and dance studies, philosophy and cultural theory. Suitable for scholars and practitioners in the fields of dance and performance studies, Moving Relation uses a process-oriented notion of touch to reevaluate key concepts such as the body, rhythm, emotional expression, subjectivity and audience perception.

Choreographing Difference

Ann Cooper Albright
Choreographing Difference Book PDF

Author : Ann Cooper Albright
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819569917

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Choreographing Difference by Ann Cooper Albright Pdf

The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity — a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings. Through her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabit them. As a dancer, feminist, and philosopher, Albright turns to the material experience of bodies, not just the body as a figure or metaphor, to understand how cultural representation becomes embedded in the body. In arguing for the intelligence of bodies, Choreographing Difference is itself a testimonial, giving voice to some important political, moral, and artistic questions of our time. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.

Contemporary Dance Lighting

Carol M. Press,Vickie J. Scott
Contemporary Dance Lighting Book PDF

Author : Carol M. Press,Vickie J. Scott
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000634518

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Contemporary Dance Lighting by Carol M. Press,Vickie J. Scott Pdf

Contemporary Dance Lighting: The Poetry and the Nitty-Gritty dynamically guides students toward aesthetically, creatively, and skillfully becoming lighting designers for dance in the 21st century. The book is organized in three parts, covering everything from the aesthetic considerations of lighting for dance to the tools and technology designers use to create compelling artistry. Part I, "Beginnings" establishes context, explaining the structure of the book and illuminating the history of contemporary dance and lighting. Part II, "The Poetry" elaborates on the key artistic and aesthetic elements of contemporary dance lighting: visual narrative; controllable functions and qualities of light; use of space, color, and time; importance and intricacies of collaboration; and continual effects and evolution of technology. Part III, "The Nitty-Gritty" steers students through the technical knowledge and skills necessary to design lighting, including understanding your tools and positioning instruments; creating layered light plots; organizing extensive paperwork; and archiving. The dance Artifice, choreographed by Jerry Pearson, is sequentially explored throughout the book to convey key concepts. "Further Reflections" conclude each chapter, written by a diverse group of renowned professionals, inviting young designers directly into the world of lighting design. This textbook is for use in Lighting Design and Design for Dance Lighting courses at the university level, along with professional training programs.

Contemporary Dance in South Africa

Sarahleigh Castelyn
Contemporary Dance in South Africa Book PDF

Author : Sarahleigh Castelyn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527589254

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Contemporary Dance in South Africa by Sarahleigh Castelyn Pdf

This book explores when and how, and to what effect, the body in South African contemporary dance protests, subverts, or represents a site of the struggle against oppressive forces of power. It considers how the dancing body is choreographed, what meanings lie behind the movements it makes in space, the possible effect of these movements, how and why it is costumed, and its relationship to its setting and space. It examines a selection of contemporary South African dance works, including Flatfoot Dance Company’s Transmission: Mother to Child (2005), Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre’s Home (2003), Musa Hlatshwayo’s Umthombi (2004), Mlu Zondi’s Silhouette (2006), and Nelisiwe Xaba’s They Look at Me and That Is All They Think (2006). Using both critical study of these works and the author’s own practice research, the book develops an understanding of the body in contemporary dance and its political and social meanings both in the chosen performance and within the broader context of South African society from 2003-2007. This provides a snapshot of the practice and concerns of contemporary dance in just over a decade from the first democratic national elections in 1994. It is through the study of these dance works that this moment in South African history is captured. Contemporary dance in South Africa tells the story of South Africa; its past, present, and possible future, and is therefore an enticing and evocative historical period to research a dance practice.

Queer Dance

Clare Croft
Queer Dance Book PDF

Author : Clare Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199377336

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Queer Dance by Clare Croft Pdf

'Queer Dance' challenges social norms and enacts queer coalition across the LGBTQ community. The text joins forces with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial work to consider how bodies are forces of social change.

Looking at Contemporary Dance

Marc Strauss,Myron Howard Nadel
Looking at Contemporary Dance Book PDF

Author : Marc Strauss,Myron Howard Nadel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0871273543

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Looking at Contemporary Dance by Marc Strauss,Myron Howard Nadel Pdf

"Organized chronologically by the decades in which innovators were born or dance organizations were founded, [this history] covers more than 110 choreographers, companies, institutions, and dancers from both modern dance and ballet, and from around the world. Readers can view clips of dances from over 220 Internet search addresses that illustrate the text. Videographies are provided at the end of each chapter for viewing complete dances and documentaries."--P. [4] of cover.

Reading Dancing

Susan Leigh Foster
Reading Dancing Book PDF

Author : Susan Leigh Foster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520063333

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Reading Dancing by Susan Leigh Foster Pdf

Winner of the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize Recent approaches to dance composition, seen in the works of Merce Cunningham and the Judson Church performances of the early 1960s, suggest the possibility for a new theory of choreographic meaning. Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Reading Dancing outlines four distinct models for representation in dance which are illustrated, first, through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers Deborah Hay, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, and then through reference to historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance. The comparison of these four approaches to representation affirms the unparalleled diversity of choreographic methods in American dance, and also suggests a critical perspective from which to reflect on dance making and viewing.

Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer

J. Roche
Multiplicity Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer Book PDF

Author : J. Roche
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1349491934

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Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer by J. Roche Pdf

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.

Harnessing the Wind

Jan Erkert
Harnessing the Wind Book PDF

Author : Jan Erkert
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Modern dance
ISBN : 0736044876

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Harnessing the Wind by Jan Erkert Pdf

Illustrated with abstract and imaginative photographs, this is a philosophical guide for the dance field about the art of teaching modern dance. Integrating somatic theories, scientific research and contemporary aesthetic practices, it asks the reader to reconsider how and why they teach.

Meaning in Motion

Jane Desmond
Meaning in Motion Book PDF

Author : Jane Desmond
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 082231942X

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Meaning in Motion by Jane Desmond Pdf

On dance and culture