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The Moment of Movement: Dance Improvisation
The Moment of Movement: Dance Improvisation
by Lynne Anne Blom
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Dance improvisation, the intriguing phenomenon of the creative process alive in the moving body, exists powerfully, sublimely - lending insight, solving problems, allowing moments of transcendence, diversion, and delight. Flourishing especially since the... (read more)

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Stepping Left - PB
Stepping Left - PB
by Ellen Graff
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""Stepping Left" is the first extended study of the origins, development, influence, and legacy of the radical dance movement that emerged in the United States during the 1930s. Quite simply, this book will change how the history of American dance in... (read more)

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The Art of Listening: Intuition & Improvisation in Choreography
The Art of Listening: Intuition & Improvisation in Choreography
by Darla Johnson
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Modern dance has evolved over time to encompass a wide variety of definitions. Stepping out of comfort zones and following the voice of improvisation is a much-needed necessity for modern choreographers.Listening is exactly where we need to start, says... (read more)

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Dance Improvisations
Dance Improvisations
by Joyce Morgenroth
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Dance Improvisations is a book for teachers of dance and acting, choreographers, directors, and dance therapists.  Systematically offering a complete range of ways to explore dance, it can be used as a syllabus or as a reference for groups of all... (read more)

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My Body, the Buddhist
My Body, the Buddhist
by Deborah Hay
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A premiere choreographer's compelling argument for the agency of the body in creative processes.... (read more)

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The Modern Dance
The Modern Dance
by Selma Jeanne Jeanne Cohen
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7 eminent choreographers discuss their approach and interpretation of dance; includes an historical survey of the... (read more)

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Luigi's Jazz Warm Up : an Introduction To Jazz Style & Technique (97 Edition)
Luigi's Jazz Warm Up : an Introduction To Jazz Style & Technique (97 Edition)
by Luigi Kriegel
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For the beginning or intermediate student of any age, this complete body warmup also provides an introduction to Luigi's lyrical jazz style. Developed over a 45 year period of teaching, Luigi's pioneering method is based on anatomically sound principles,... (read more)

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Mark Morris's L'Allegro, Il Pensoroso, Ed Il Moderato: A Celebration
Mark Morris's L'Allegro, Il Pensoroso, Ed Il Moderato: A Celebration
by Jeffrey Escoffier
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Mark Morris' 1988 dance, L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, set to music by Handel and poems by John Milton, and inspired by watercolors by William Blake, has been called a work of "utopian grandeur," "a masterpiece of craft, invention, and feeling,... (read more)

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Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion
Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion
by Sondra Horton Fraleigh
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Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Dancing Identity presents a series of interconnected essays composed over a period of fifteen years. Taken as a whole, these meditative reflections on memory and on the ways we perceive and... (read more)

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Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen: Expressive Movement for Performers
Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen: Expressive Movement for Performers
by Annette Lust
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Dance Film
Dance Film
by Erin Brannigan
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Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image examines the choreographic in cinema - the way choreographic elements inform cinematic operations in dancefilm. It traces the history of the form from some of its earliest manifestations in the silent film era,... (read more)

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Writing Dancing in Age of Postmodernism (94 Edition)
Writing Dancing in Age of Postmodernism (94 Edition)
by Sally Banes
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A leading critic traces three decades of contemporary dance from Balanchine to... (read more)

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New Dance
New Dance
by Margery J. Turner
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Dealing exclusively with developments in modern dance since 1951, this book is for anyone who wishes to understand and experience nonliteral dance: students and teachers, dancers and critics.... (read more)

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Looking at Contemporary Dance: A Guide for the Internet Age
Looking at Contemporary Dance: A Guide for the Internet Age
by Marc Raymond Strauss
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With a focus on dance innovation from the late 19th century to the present, this history provides dance students with accessible information on the major contributors to the art. Organized chronologically by the decades in which innovators were born or... (read more)

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Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen: Expressive Movement for Performers
Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen: Expressive Movement for Performers
by Annette Lust
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As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed. And in order to bring authenticity and believability to a character, it has become increasingly... (read more)

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The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique: A Philosophy and Method of Modern Dance
The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique: A Philosophy and Method of Modern Dance
by Alwin Nikolais
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The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique provides the definite resource for understanding and practicing the influential dance technique developed by two pioneers of modern dance, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis. The Nikolais/Louis technique is presented in a... (read more)

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Kazuo Ohno's World
Kazuo Ohno's World
by Kazuo Ohno
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Photographs and words illuminate Butoh dance.... (read more)

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The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators
The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators
by Jean Brown
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This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in... (read more)

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Connections and Parallels Between Humanistic Psychology and Modern Dance At Jacob's Pillow.
Connections and Parallels Between Humanistic Psychology and Modern Dance At Jacob's Pillow.
by Hadassah H Hoffman
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The birth of humanistic psychology and of modern dance in America share characteristics, Hoffman argues: Both emphasized the need for personal liberation, and both represented a rebellious response to the status quo. Hoffman, a dance therapist in... (read more)

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The Modern Dance
The Modern Dance
by Selma Jeanne Cohen
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Seven Statements of Belief: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolais, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor... (read more)

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