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Choreographing Difference
Ann Cooper Albright
Paperback - $47.95
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 ...
The Vision of Modern Dance : In the Words of Its Creators
Jean Brown
Paperback - $30.95
This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life ...
Alien Bodies
Ramsay Burt
Paperback - $96.95
Blurring the conventional distinction between modern dance and ballet, African American dance, gymnastics and dancing as popular entertainment, i Alien Bodies /i looks at the way the dance of the 1920s and 1930s mediated the experience of modernity. ...
Basic Concepts in Modern Dance : A Creative Approach
Gay Cheney
Paperback - $32.95
A brief overview of modern dance history, and a discussion of basic body movement, improvisation, and choreography.
The Modern Dance : Seven Statements of Belief
Selma J. Cohen
Paperback - $33.95
CONTRIBUTORS: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor.
Stepping Left - PB
Ellen Graff
Paperback - $47.95
Stepping Left simultaneously unveils the radical roots of modern dance and recalls the excitement and energy of New York City in the 1930s. Ellen Graff explores the relationship between the modern dance movement and leftist political activism in this ...
Moving Toward Life : Five Decades of Transformational Dance
Anna Halprin
Paperback - $51.95
Anna Halprin is one of the most important innovators in the history of modern dance, performance art, and post-modern dance. Moving Toward Life brings together for the first time her essays, interviews, manifestos, and teaching materials, along with ...
Dancing Communities : Performance, Difference, and Connection in the Global City
Judith Hamera
Hardcover - $159.95
"Dancing Communities" is a landmark volume in dance scholarship, and examines performances that create urban communities by blurring, or reinforcing, complex cultural and ethnic boundaries. It argues that amateur and concert dance practices are labor ...
Hip Hop Dance : Meanings and Messages
Carla Stalling Huntington
Paperback - $75.95
Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examin ...