Author: Bess Ring KovalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Folk Sources for the Choreography of "The Widening Circle"
Author: Bess Ring KovalThe Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance
Author: Mary Ellen SnodgrassPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442257490
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there isn’t a single comprehensive book on folk dances across the globe. This illustrated compendium offers the student, teacher, choreographer, historian, media critic, ethnographer, and general reader an overview of the evolution and social and religious significance of folk dance. The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dancefocuses on the uniqueness of kinetic performance and its contribution to the study and appreciation of rhythmic expression around the globe. Following a chronology of momentous events dating from prehistoryto the present day, the entries in this volume include material on technical terms, character roles, and specific dances. The entries also summarize the historical and ethnic milieu of each style and execution, highlighting, among other elements, such features as: origins purpose rituals and traditions props dress holidays themes
Contemporary Choreography
Author: Jo ButterworthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317191579
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and innovative challenges to traditional understandings of dance making. Contributions from a global range of practitioners and researchers address a spectrum of concerns in the field, organized into seven broad domains: Conceptual and philosophical concerns Processes of making Dance dramaturgy: structures, relationships, contexts Choreographic environments Cultural and intercultural contexts Challenging aesthetics Choreographic relationships with technology. Including 23 new chapters and 10 updated ones, Contemporary Choreography captures the essence and progress of choreography in the twenty-first century, supporting and encouraging rigorous thinking and research for future generations of dance practitioners and scholars.
Dance Observer
Author: Dance a While
Author: Anne M. PittmanPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478629517
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Tenth Edition of Dance a While continues the 65-year legacy of a textbook that has proven to be the standard of all recreational dance resources. The authors have poured decades of experience and knowledge onto its pages, providing a wealth of direction on American, square, contra, international, and social dance. Each chapter is packed with expertly written instruction, coupled with clear and detailed diagrams and informative history, to provide students with well-rounded training on over 260 individual dances. The book also contains a music CD to allow for convenience when practicing outside of the classroom, helping to make it an invaluable resource for students of dance at all levels.
Dance Cultures Around the World
Author: Lynn FrederiksenPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492572322
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"Textbook for undergrad general education and dance courses on the topic of dance around the world. It serves as a gateway into studying world cultures through dance"--
DanceForum
Author: The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians
Author: Oscar ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 2506
Book Description
What the Eye Hears
Author: Brian SeibertPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429947616
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles and dances brought from Africa by slaves. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface minstrelsy and charts its growth as a cousin to jazz in the vaudeville circuits and nightclubs of the early twentieth century. Seibert chronicles tap's spread to ubiquity on Broadway and in Hollywood, analyzes its decline after World War II, and celebrates its rediscovery and reinvention by new generations of American and international performers. In the process, we discover how the history of tap dancing is central to any meaningful account of American popular culture. This is a story with a huge cast of characters, from Master Juba (it was probably a performance of his in a Five Points cellar that Charles Dickens described in American Notes for General Circulation) through Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Gene Kelly and Paul Draper to Gregory Hines and Savion Glover. Seibert traces the stylistic development of tap through individual practitioners, vividly depicting dancers both well remembered and now obscure. And he illuminates the cultural exchange between blacks and whites over centuries, the interplay of imitation and theft, as well as the moving story of African-Americans in show business, wielding enormous influence as they grapple with the pain and pride of a complicated legacy.What the Eye Hears teaches us to see and hear the entire history of tap in its every step.
Karikázó
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Hungarian folklore newsletter.