Author: Cellarius (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Drawing-room Dances
Author: Cellarius (pseud.)The Drawing-room Dances
Author: Henri CellariusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A translation of La danse des salons (1847), this manual provides important information on mid-nineteenth-century ballroom dance. Following a format utilized by many manuals, the work begins with introductory comments on dance, followed by a description of the French quadrille. This is followed by discussion of round dances--the polka, numerous waltzes including waltze à trois temps, and waltze à deux temps--as well as steps and figures for another type of quadrille known as the mazurka quadrille. The manual contains eighty-three figures for a series of dance games, called the cotillon (also known as the German or German cotillon). The manual includes eight full-page prints by Paul Gavarni.
Amazons in the Drawing Room
Author: Whitney ChadwickPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520225678
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Coinciding with a traveling exhibition opening at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in June, this volume presents a comprehensive and definitive analysis of the life and art of Romaine Brooks, reproducing for the first time in color 34 of the 40 nudes and portraits she painted. Includes an essay by Joe Lucchesi.
The Country Dance Book. Part II.
Author: Cecil James SharpThe Ball-room Guide
Author: Waltzing
Author: Richard PowersPublisher: Redowa Press
ISBN: 0982799543
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
In the 85 chapters of this guidebook, you will find many ideas about waltzing, dancing, and living. Dance descriptions and tips to improve your dancing are accompanied by down-to-earth ways to find greater fulfillment in your dancing and in your life. 25 different kinds of waltz are completely described, including: cross-step waltz, Viennese waltz, box step waltz, rotary waltz, polka, schottische, redowa, mazurka, hambo, zwiefacher, and more. In addition, you will find 85 waltz variations completely described, and a concise compendium of an additional hundred variations, accompanied by 50 illustrations of waltzing through the ages. Then beyond waltzing, much of this book applies to all forms of social ballroom dancing. You'll learn how you can be a better dance partner, how to develop your style and musicality, how to improvise more confidently, how to learn new dances by observation, and how to create your own social dance variations. You'll also learn about the many ways that the practice of social dancing can enrich our lives. Drawing on the latest research in social psychology, Waltzing includes chapters on the essential benefits of: music, physical activity, connection, play, mindfulness, acceptance, conditional learning, and many other topics.
Stories from the Living Room
Author: Jon GaratePublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465332634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
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Spacescapes
Author: Sarah BurkhalterPublisher: Jrp Ringier
ISBN: 9783037644690
Category : Art and dance
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Dance and drawing are intimately linked to the gesture that performs them. The dancing body creates a figure in space and leaves an impact on site, while the action of the artist sets a point into motion and captures an ephemeral event, which is then reproduced in graphic or visual form.Throughout the 20th century, the performing and visual arts have converged on many occasions. As artists investigated the embodied and energetic value of form, dancers and choreographers experimented with the interfaces between sign and action, between annotation and improvisation, between a spatial sense of self and an architectural configuration of movement.The hybridization of dance and drawing speeded up from mid-century onward, as performance art introduced innovative practices and as borders between disciplines were worn thin, causing interdisciplinary forms to emerge.These encounters are the focus of this volume, a collection of original essays and interviews in which the accounts of theoreticians and practitioners echo each other. It aims to evaluate and discuss the specific interaction of the two media and how their practices have diversified since 1962, namely since the first public performance of the Judson Dance Group in New York.This book follows, I Love Thinking on my Feet. Dance and Drawing Since 1962, an international symposium held at the Geneva University in 2012.(French edition also available 9783037644706).
Social Dance
Author: Arthur FranksPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000394867
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Originally published in 1963 and authored by the then Editor of the Dancing Times, this was a pioneer work discussing not only the origins and development of many social dance forms from early times, but also relating these forms to their environment. As well as its role in social history, the book analyses the role of dance as a prime creative power in Renaissance spectacles which depicted and celebrated diplomatic, military and regal occasions. After a wide-ranging introductory chapter on the origins of dancing, the book takes the reader through the centuries, discussing in turn the Basse Danse and the Moresco of the Middle Ages, the Pavane, Galliard and Courante of the 16th Century, the Minuet of the 17th & 18th, the Allemande, the Waltz and the Polka as well as Jazz, the Cha Cha Cha, the Jive and Twist.
Adversaries of Dance
Author: Ann Louise WagnerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065903
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial "dance palace," or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral--more precisely as being a danger to the purity of those who practiced it, particularly women. In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four centuries in what is now the United States. Wagner bases her work on the thesis that the tradition of opposition to dance "derived from white, male, Protestant clergy and evangelists who argued from a narrow and selective interpretation of biblical passages," and that the opposition thrived when denominational dogma held greater power over people's lives and when women's social roles were strictly limited. Central to Wagner's work, which will be welcomed by scholars of both religion and dance, are issues of gender, race, and socioeconomic status. "There are no other works that even begin to approach this definitive accomplishment." --Amanda Porterfield, author of Female Piety in Puritan New England