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• Author(s): Mark Knowles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Tap The language of tap dancing is as rich and varied as that of any art, and different choreographers, teachers and perf...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Joyce MacKie • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Genres & Styles - BalletAll the basic movements in classical ballet, illustrated with 275 detailed photographs. This unique handbook ...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Mark Knowles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Tap Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was firs...

• 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): 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): Cheryl Pallant • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from ...

• Author(s): Doug Risner | Karen Schupp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet The first of its kind, this volume presents research-based fictionalized case studie...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Stephanie Rosenthal • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - ModernismHow visual art has been enriched by dance, and dance has been shaped by art, in unprecedented and exciting ways for the p...

• Author(s): Elizabeth McPherson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet The story of this groundbreaking summer dance program is told through the voices of staff, ...

• Author(s): Erin Manning • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Photographers - GeneralA new philosophy of movement that explores the active relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, c...

• Author(s): Jenn Joy • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletAn investigation of dance and choreography that views them not only as artistic strategies but also as intrinsically theore...

• Author(s): Harrison Blum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment embodiment. The rise of Western Buddhism, sa...

• 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): Jennifer Fisher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet Part memoir, part dance history and ethnography, this critical study explores ballet's power to...

• 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...