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Conditioning for Dance by Eric Franklin Publisher Comments Even the best sense of rhythm, the most careful technical training, and the most astute dance intuition aren't enough to make a dancer truly excel; you also need focused strength, balance, and flexibility to execute the movements with power and grace... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Thinking Body by Mabel Elsworth Todd Publisher Comments A classic study of physiology and the effect of psychological processes on movement that has a mind/body approach, which makes it a favorite of dancers.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Interpreting News by Graham Meikle Publisher Comments This core introductory text offers a comprehensive overview of how news has been theorised and understood in key Media Studies traditions. It explores how news is constructed, distributed and received and includes up-to-date examples and discussion of... (read more) Your price: $120.00 New - Hardcover
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Age and Dancing: Older People and Community Dance Practice by Diane (edt) Amans Publisher Comments This highly readable introduction to dance with older people combines key debates and issues in the field with practical guidance, as well as a resources section including numerous "toolkit materials." Diane Amans, leading practitioner in Community... (read more) Your price: $35.25 New - Trade Paper
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Tango: The Dance, the Song, the Story by Simon Collier Publisher Comments Born in the slums of Buenos Aires in the last decades of the 19th century, the tango has remained spectacularly alive for over 100 years and today is the focus of a new cult. What is the secret of the tango's appeal? Historian Simon Collier traces the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.25 New - Trade Paper
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Inside Ballet Technique: Separating Fact from Fiction in the Ballet Class by Valerie Grieg Publisher Comments A Dance Book Club main selection, this guide offers a general explanation of anatomy, kinesiology, and technique for ballet dancers, students, and teachers.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dancing Our Way Home by Alana Shaw Publisher Comments Enter the intoxicating world of performing in community with a step-by-step guide that combines practical exercises and improvisational forms. Proven methods reach out to classes, children in after-school programs, youth at risk and culturally and socio... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Magic Pointe Shoes by Patricia Storelli Publisher Comments The Magic of Pointe Shoes is an invaluable guide to students, teachers and dancers. This is an amazing book that will help you unlock all the mysteries about pointe shoes. Katia Garza, Artist, Orlando BalletThe Magic of Pointe Shoes is the only book... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ballroom Dancing by Alex Moore Publisher Comments For nearly 70 years, Alex Moore's "Ballroom Dancing" has been a favorite guide to standard techniques of ballroom dancing-for beginners, for competition dancers, and for students of ballroom dance courses. Now in its tenth edition, this classic and... (read more) Your price: $35.25 New - Hardcover
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The Fit and Healthy Dancer by Yiannis Koutedakis Publisher Comments Regardless of the grace of their movement, dancers experience injuries more often than the lugs bucking heads on the rugby field or in the boxing ring. On average, dancers are only marginally fitter than the average person on the street, smoke far too... (read more) Your price: $119.50 New - Trade Paper
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Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance by Erin Manning Publisher Comments In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the "more than human" in the context of movement, perception, and experience. Working from Whitehead's process philosophy and Simondon's... (read more) Your price: $89.95 New - Hardcover
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The Oxford Dictionary of Dance by Debra Craine Publisher Comments With over 2,500 entries covering all aspects of dance, this unique dictionary is the only one of its kind available. It is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of dance in paperback, ranging from classical ballet to the cutting edge of modern... (read more) Your price: $23.75 New - Trade Paper
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Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History by Jack Anderson Publisher Comments Now expanded and updated, this second edition of the original bestseller is an engaging interpretation of dance historyfrom the Ancient Greeks and European royal courts to the rise of the American ballet and the explosion of modern... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dance Composition: A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making [With DVD] by Jacqueline M Smith Autard Publisher Comments Dance composition the discipline that translates ideas into dances is an important part of dance education. This book, a bestseller for over twenty years, is a practical guide to creative success in dance making and is a popular textbook... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by Lynn Garafola Publisher Comments In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. Under the direction of impresario extraordinaire Serge Diaghilev (18721929), the Ballets Russes radically transformed... (read more) Your price: $20.50 New - Trade Paper
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Choreography by Sandra Cerny Minton Publisher Comments Choreography: A Basic Approach Using Improvisation is the complete guide to understanding the entire process of choreography, from concept to stage production. Thousands of dancers and dance instructors have used the first two editions of this book to... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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Dance Production and Management by Heather Trommer-beardslee Publisher Comments Everything from early conceptual work through performance and touring are covered in this how to book for dance management. Dancers will create a fictional company and follow it through a myriad of steps and complexities necessary for a successful... (read more) Available December 2013 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Dancer's Survival Manual: Everything You Need to Know from the First Class to Career Change by Marian Horosko Synopsis A road map to plan your career in dance "Impressive. . . . I recommend this book for parents, teachers, and dancers of all ages."--Karen Kain, Artistic Director, National Ballet of Canada "An invaluable book where students... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Looking At Contemporary Dance (12 Edition) by Marc Raymond Strauss Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nutrition for the Dancer by Zerlina Mastin Publisher Comments The tremendous physical mastery of a 21st century dancer undoubtedly rivals that of an athlete, but the importance and significance of nutrition could not be any more different. However, merely likening the strength, Agility and physicality of a dancer... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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