Performing Arts
The Place of Dance Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780819574053
Pub Date: 30 Jan 2014
Illustrations: 100 illus.
Description:
The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing is our nature, available to all as well as refined for the stage. Andrea Olsen is an internationally known choreographer and educator who combines the science of body with creative practice.
Engaging Bodies Cover Engaging Bodies Cover
Format: 
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9780819574107
Pub Date: 02 Jan 2014
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9780819574114
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2013
Description:
For twenty-five years, Ann Cooper Albright has been exploring the intersection of cultural representation and somatic identity in dance. For Albright, dancing is a physical inquiry, a way of experiencing and participating in the world, and her writing reflects an interdisciplinary approach to seeing and thinking about dance. In her engagement as both a dancer and a scholar, Albright draws on her kinesthetic sensibilities as well as her intellectual knowledge to articulate how movement creates meaning.
Through the Eyes of a Dancer Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 372
ISBN: 9780819574077
Pub Date: 05 Nov 2013
Illustrations: 26 illus.
Description:
Through the Eyes of a Dancer compiles the writings of noted dance critic and editor Wendy Perron. In pieces for The SoHo Weekly News, Village Voice, The New York Times, and Dance Magazine, Perron limns the larger aesthetic and theoretical shifts in the dance world since the 1960s. She surveys a wide range of styles and genres, from downtown experimental performance to ballets at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Carmen, a Gypsy Geography Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780819573537
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2013
Illustrations: 30 illus.
Description:
The figure of Carmen has emerged as a cipher for the unfettered female artist. Dance historian and performance theorist Ninotchka Bennahum shows us Carmen as embodied historical archive, a figure through which we come to understand the promises and dangers of nomadic, transnational identity, and the immanence of performance as an expanded historical methodology. Bennahum traces the genealogy of the female Gypsy presence in her iconic operatic role from her genesis in the ancient Mediterranean world, her emergence as flamenco artist in the architectural spaces of Islamic Spain, her persistent manifestation in Picasso, and her contemporary relevance on stage.

How To Do Things with Dance

Format: Paperback
Pages: 348
ISBN: 9780819568984
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2012
Illustrations: 38 illus.
Description:
In postwar America, any assertion of difference from the mainstream anticommunist culture carried professional and personal risks. For this reason, modern dance artists left much of what they thought unsaid. Instead they expressed themselves in movement.
Hiking the Horizontal Cover Hiking the Horizontal Cover
Format: 
Pages: 332
ISBN: 9780819569516
Pub Date: 04 Apr 2011
Illustrations: 51 illus.
Pages: 332
ISBN: 9780819574367
Pub Date: 02 May 2014
Illustrations: 51 illus.
Description:
The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us. Lerman has been described by the Washington Post as "the source of an epochal revolution in the scope and purposes of dance art.
Modern Gestures Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9780819570772
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2010
Illustrations: 60 colour illus.
Description:
This small and beautifully illustrated book showcases the work of two great American modernists, painter Abraham Walkowitz and dancer Isadora Duncan. Born in the same year (1878), both artists influenced the development of modern art in the early twentieth century by blending figurative gesture with abstraction. Duncan grew up in a free-spirited and artistic household in California and then moved to Europe.
Choreographing Asian America Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780819567031
Pub Date: 02 Aug 2010
Description:
Poised at the intersection of Asian American studies and dance studies, Choreographing Asian America is the first book-length examination of the role of Orientalist discourse in shaping Asian Americanist entanglements with U.S. modern dance history.

Mirrors and Scrims

Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9780819569264
Pub Date: 03 May 2010
Illustrations: 27 B&W illus.
Description:
In this stunning new collection of reviews and essays, dance critic Marcia B. Siegel grapples with the floating identity of ballet, as well as particular ballets, and with the expanding environment of spectacle in which ballet competes for an audience. Drawn from a wide variety of published sources, these writings concentrate on canonical works of ballet and how the performances of these works have been changing in significant ways.

Movable Pillars

Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780819569110
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2010
Illustrations: 9 illus.
Description:
Movable Pillars traces the development of dance as scholarly inquiry over the course of the 20th century, and describes the social-political factors that facilitated a surge of interest in dance research in the period following World War II. This surge was reflected in the emergence of six key dance organizations: the American Dance Guild, the Congress on Research in Dance, the American Dance Therapy Association, the American College Dance Festival Association, the Dance Critics Association, and the Society of Dance History Scholars. Kolcio argues that their founding between the years 1956 and 1978 marked a new period of collective action in dance and is directly related to the inclusion of moving bodies in scholarly research and the ways in which dance studies interfaces with other fields such as feminist studies, critical research methods, and emancipatory education.
The Dancer Within Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780819568809
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2008
Illustrations: 40 illus.
Description:
The Dancer Within is a collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and entertainers, many of them world-famous. Well-known on the concert stage, on Broadway, in Hollywood musicals, and on television, the personalities featured in this book speak with extraordinary candor about all stages of the dancer's life-from their first dance class to their signature performances and their days of reflection on the artist's life. The Dancer Within reveals how these artists triumphed, but also how they overcame adversity, including self-doubt, injuries, and aging.
Traces of Light Cover Traces of Light Cover
Format: 
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780819568427
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2007
Illustrations: 60 illus. (28 colour plates)
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780819568434
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2007
Illustrations: 60 illus. (28 colour plates)
Description:
One of the most famous dancers of the early 1900s, Loïe Fuller created an extraordinary sensation in Paris with her manipulations of hundreds of yards of silk, swirling high above her and lit dramatically from below. Her work inspired artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Auguste Rodin, and Stéphane Mallarmé, and she embodied many of the decorative themes of Art Nouveau. Because her work highlights important issues in dance such as the role of technology in defining a dancing signature, the emergence of a modern movement sensibility, and the role of popular entertainment in early modern dance, Fuller is a critical figure through whom to study the changing representations of women dancers in the early twentieth century.
The Returns of Alwin Nikolais Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780819565761
Pub Date: 04 Jun 2007
Illustrations: 33 B&W illus., 16 colour illus.
Description:
A groundbreaking choreographer, lighting designer, composer, and costumer, Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most innovative artists. Incorporating novel technological and performance tactics, he invented a total language of non-literal dance theater that attracted audiences worldwide for over forty years. The Returns of Alwin Nikolais is the first book devoted to a critical analysis of Nikolais's work, and it provides a broad and important overview of his artistic and philosophical trajectory.
At Home in the World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780819568373
Pub Date: 21 May 2007
Illustrations: 21 illus.
Description:
One of the most popular and widely performed dance styles in India and around the world, bharata natyam has made the transition from its beginnings in the temples and courts of southern India to a highly respected international phenomenon. In this study of a classical dance form, author Janet O'Shea tracks the choreographic transformations that accompanied the transfer of bharata natyam to the urban concert stage in the 1930s and 1940s. At Home in the World situates these changes within the political debates of their time, and further ties the concerns of this period to present-day practice.
Glamour Addiction Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9780819567741
Pub Date: 17 Nov 2006
Illustrations: 8 colour Plates, 25 Illus.
Description:
In the wake of the blockbuster television success of "Dancing with the Stars," competitive ballroom dance has become a subject of new fascination-and renewed scrutiny. Known by its practitioners as DanceSport, ballroom is a significant dance form and a fascinating cultural phenomenon. In this first in-depth study of the sport, dancer and dance historian Juliet McMains explores the "Glamour Machine" that drives the thriving industry, delving into both the pleasures and perils of its seductions.
In Balanchine’s Company Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9780819568076
Pub Date: 03 Oct 2006
Illustrations: 48 illus.
Description:
During her twelve years with Ballet Society and the New York City Ballet, Barbara Milberg worked under the direction of George Balanchine. She rose from corps de ballet to soloist, danced leading roles in Swan Lake and Illuminations, and performed in celebrated world premieres. In this observant and poignant memoir, she shares her recollections of Balanchine, his craft and his values, and lends insight into surprising aspects of his personality.