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Author : Susan Leigh Foster
Release : 2002-09-04
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 518/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dances that Describe Themselves by : Susan Leigh Foster
Download or read book Dances that Describe Themselves written by Susan Leigh Foster. This book was released on 2002-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inquiry into improvisation as practiced by Richard Bull and his contemporaries.
Author : Constance A. Schrader
Release : 2005
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 897/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Sense of Dance by : Constance A. Schrader
Download or read book A Sense of Dance written by Constance A. Schrader. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh, inspirational approach shows how to frame the art of dance within the context of life and how to gain the tools to appreciate, discuss and write about dance as a fine art. It also helps develop creative thinking and self-expression.
Author : Vassiliki Karkou
Release : 2017
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 298/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing by : Vassiliki Karkou
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing written by Vassiliki Karkou. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a growth in dance and wellbeing scholarship has resulted in new ways of thinking that place the body, movement, and dance in a central place with renewed significance for wellbeing. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing examines dance and related movement practices fromthe perspectives of neuroscience and health, community and education, and psychology and sociology to contribute towards an understanding of wellbeing, offer new insights into existing practices, and create a space where sufficient exchange is enabled. The handbook's research components includequantitative, qualitative, and arts-based research, covering diverse discourses, methodologies, and perspectives that add to the development of a complete picture of the topic. Throughout the handbook's wide-ranging chapters, the objective observations, felt experiences, and artistic explorations ofpractitioners interact with and are printed alongside academic chapters to establish an egalitarian and impactful exchange of ideas.
Author : Lucia Ruprecht
Release : 2017-03-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 455/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine by : Lucia Ruprecht
Download or read book Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine written by Lucia Ruprecht. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucia Ruprecht's study is the first monograph in English to analyse the relationship between nineteenth-century German literature and theatrical dance. Combining cultural history with close readings of major texts by Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine, the author brings to light little-known German resources on dance to address the theoretical implications of examining the interdiscursive and intermedial relations between the three authors' literary works, aesthetic reflections on dance, and dance of the period. In doing so, she not only shows how dancing and writing relate to one another but reveals the characteristics that make each mode of expression distinct unto itself. Readings engage with literary modes of understanding physical movement that are neglected under the regime of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, and of classical ballet, setting the human, frail and expressive body against the smoothly idealised neoclassicist ideal. Particularly important is the way juxtaposing texts and performance practice allows for the emergence of meta-discourses about trauma and repetition and their impact on aesthetics and formulations of the self and the human body. Related to this is the author's concept of performative exercises or dances of the self which constitute a decisive force within the formation of subjectivity that is enacted in the literary texts. Joining performance studies with psychoanalytical theory, this book opens up new pathways for understanding Western theatrical dance's theoretical, historical and literary continuum.
Author : James Moreno
Release : 2020-04-19
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 575/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins by : James Moreno
Download or read book Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins written by James Moreno. This book was released on 2020-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins examines stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad in the work of US modern dance choreographers, José Limón (1908-1972) and Erick Hawkins (1908-1994). Focusing on the period between 1945 to 1980, this book analyzes Limón and Hawkins’ work during a time when modern dance was forming new relationships to academic and governmental institutions, mainstream markets, and notions of embodiment. The pre-war expressionist tradition championed by Limón and Hawkins’ mentors faced multiple challenges as ballet and Broadway complicated the tenets of modernism and emerging modern dance choreographers faced an increasingly conservative post-war culture framed by the Cold War and Red Scare. By bringing the work of Limón and Hawkins together in one volume, Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins accesses two distinct approaches to training and performance that proved highly influential in creating post-war dialogues on race, gender, and embodiment. This book approaches Limón and Hawkins’ training regimes and performing strategies as social practices symbiotically entwined with their geo-political backgrounds. Limón’s queer and Latino heritage is put into dialogue with Hawkins’ straight and European heritage to examine how their embodied social histories worked co-constitutively with their training regimes and performance strategies to produce influential stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad.
