Search results for “[Subject: dance-general]”

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Prominent dance critic Arlene Croce wrote for The New Yorker during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Through mor...

• Author(s): Ramsay Burt • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletIn this challenging and lively book, Ramsay Burt examines the representation of...

• Author(s): Ramsay Burt • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis revised third edition of The Male Dancer updates and enlarges a seminal book that has established itself as t...

• Author(s): Joan Cass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet In dance, the choreographer creates, the dancer performs and the viewer observes. This work is a hand...

• Author(s): David Akombo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Dance This study surveys music and dance from a global perspective, viewing them as a composite whole found...

• Author(s): Allison Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General From Chaucer to Fitzgerald, writers have used dancing as a vital, if subtle, element in plot and character de...

• Author(s): Ella H. Magruder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General This book has systematic directions for those who are creating a dance company for young audiences: how to ha...

• Author(s): Caitlin E. McDonald | Barbara Sellers-Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the...

• Author(s): Donna H. Krasnow | Daniel E. Lewis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Daniel Lewis's legacy as a hugely influential choreographer a...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Anthony Shay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General This study describes and analyzes the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms in America. Throughout the twen...

• Author(s): Brigitta Herrmann | Manfred Fischbeck | Elia A. Sinaiko • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Modern Group Motion--an improvisational dance performance practice--represents...

• Author(s): Reneé Critcher Lyons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Throughout history, humans have used dance as a benefit for mind, body, and soul. In some cases, governme...

• Author(s): Cheryl Pallant • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Based upon the author's lifetime practices as a dancer, poet and teacher, this innovative approach to developing body a...

• Author(s): Kathleen W. Fraser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Focusing on Egypt during the period 1760 to 1870, this book fills in some of the historical blanks for a da...

• Author(s): John Davies • Publisher: MIXIUK • Publisher Imprint: MIXIUK • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralStretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural...

• Author(s): Bentley Little • Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications • Publisher Imprint: Cemetery Dance Publications • BISAC: Horror - GeneralBob Jones is ordinary, from his appearance right down to his very name. No one seems to take notice of ...

• Author(s): Andriy Nahachewsky • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk Ukrainian dance is remarkably enduring in its popularity and still performed in numerous cultural contexts. Th...

• Author(s): Bentley Little • Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications • Publisher Imprint: Cemetery Dance Publications • BISAC: Horror - GeneralFor the town of Randall, Arizona, the terror starts quietly, oddly-a senile woman in her eighties becom...

• Author(s): Barbara S. Glass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinatin...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): Wayne Fanebust • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook ...

• Author(s): Adair Landborn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabular...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): S. -Y Kuroda • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralGenerative phonology, a comparatively recent development on the linguistic front, has stimulated a reconsideration of the conceptual sch...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): David Ewert • Publisher: Zondervan • Publisher Imprint: Zondervan • BISAC: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThere are two strands woven together in the history of the Bible and its translations. One...

• Author(s): Nyama McCarthy-Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Regional & Ethnic Issues of race, class, gender and religion permeate the study of contemporary dance, result...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Carla Stalling Huntington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Modern Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social hi...

• Author(s): Suki John • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Modern The lens of dance can provide a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban experience. Cuban contemporary dance, or t...

• Author(s): William H. Beezley | Linda A. Curcio-Nagy • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralThis unique reader offers an engaging collection of e...

• Author(s): Julie A. Brodie | Elin E. Lobel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Training in somatic techniques--holistic body-centered movement that promotes awareness and we...

• Author(s): Anthony Shay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk This collection of essays examines popular forms of dance in the Balkan nations, including detailed studies on the h...

• Author(s): James Krapfl • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralIn this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia's "gentle revolution," James Krapfl shifts the fo...