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Dance across Texas by Betty Casey Publisher Comments Looks at the history and traditions of Texas dancing and shows how to do popular Texas dances, including polkas, waltzes, and the Cotton-eyed... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $10.61 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Supervision of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Handbook by Helen Payne Publisher Comments Supervision of Dance Movement Psychotherapyis the first book of its kind to explore the supervisory process in the psychotherapeutic practice of movement and dance. Helen Payne brings together international contributors to discuss how the language of the... (read more) Your price: $37.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey by Julia L. Foulkes Publisher Comments Traces the evolution of modern dance, noting the contributions of such performers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Ted Shawn while revealing the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and how it challenged conventional roles. Simultaneous... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $48.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rock 'N' Roll Dances of the 1950s by Lisa Jo Sagolla Publisher Comments "This descriptive and analytic study examines how 1950s rock 'n' roll dancing illuminates the larger cultural context out of which the dancing arose"--... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $32.84 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Choreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity and Festival in the United States and Canada by Anthony Shay Publisher Comments Throughout its history, the United States has become a new home for thousands of immigrants, all of whom have brought their own traditions and expressions of ethnicity. Not least among these customs are folk dances, which over time have become visual... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $23.12 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique by Agrippina I︠A︡kovlevna Vaganova Publisher Comments Discusses all basic principles of ballet, grouping movement by fundamental types. Diagrams show clearly the exact foot, leg, arm, and body positions for the proper execution of many steps and movements. Offers dancers, teachers, and ballet lovers... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $7.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship by Yvonne Daniel Publisher Comments " In Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship, Yvonne Daniel provides a sweeping cultural and historical examination of diaspora dance genres. In discussing relationships among African, Caribbean, and other diasporic dances, Daniel... (read more) List Price $25.20 Your price: $22.36 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ancient Egyptian Dances by Irena Lexová Publisher Comments Dancing was important to the ancient Egyptians. One of the few books available in English on this topic, this carefully researched, profusely illustrated work investigates the origins, nature and role of dance in Egyptian culture. Features 80 figure... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Donts for Dancers by Karsinova Publisher Comments Following hot on the heels of the best-selling Don'ts for Husbands, Don'ts for Wives and Don'ts for Golfers this facsimile copy of the original edition contains everything youever needed to know, from what to wear at a fancy dress party to how tohold... (read more) List Price $3.90 Your price: $3.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History by Constance Valis Hill Publisher Comments Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap--the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.70 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Writing about Dance by Wendy Oliver Publisher Comments Writing About Danceguides students through various processes of writing about dance, from the informal (journal writing and free writing) to the formal (critiques, essays, and research papers). When students learn both practical and artistic aspects of... (read more) Your price: $22.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Folk Dancing by Erica Nielsen Publisher Comments While the general term "folk dance" encompasses a surprising variety of specific dances, there are three major recreational communities or forms: international folk dance, modern western square dance, and contra dance. Throughout the last century... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $31.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Dance Theatre of Kurt Jooss by Suzanne Walther Publisher Comments and analysis of The green table / Suzanne K. Walther -- Dancing for Jooss : recreating the role of death in The green table / Christian Holder -- Jooss ballets : chronological... (read more) Your price: $44.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Native American Dance Steps by Bessie Evans Publisher Comments This well-researched book provides details of the varied steps that certain Native American groupshave used to express their dance ideas — from skips, jumps, and hop steps, to an Indian form of the pas de bourrée. Similarities to Oriental dances... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $7.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home by Maria Finn Publisher Comments Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about learning how to follow and how to lead, how to live with... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Joffrey Ballet School's Book of Ballet-Fit by Allison Kyle Leopold Publisher Comments The world-renowned Joffrey Ballet School makes the art and joy of ballet available to everyone. Let Dena Simone Moss and Allison Kyle Leopold teach you everything you need to know to get in shape, beautifully sculpt your body, and truly appreciate the... (read more) Your price: $6.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out by Nadine George-Graves Publisher Comments Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the ground-breaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Their unique aesthetic borrows from classical and contemporary dance... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics by Mark Franko Publisher Comments ..". almost every page offers provocative commentary on the aesthetics and politics of modern dance." -- Signs ..". [an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $10.61 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien by Brian Winter Publisher Comments Presents a memoir about Brian Warner's journey into Argentina and his love affair with the tango--the heartbeat of Argentina life.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $23.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Choreographies of African Identities: Négritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal by Francesca Castaldi Publisher Comments Structured as a polyrhythmic ensemble, the narrative in Francesca Castaldi's Choreographies of African Identities "sounds" three interrelated interpretations of the work of the National Ballet of Senegal, each interpretation overlapping with the others... (read more) List Price $23.40 Your price: $20.77 Google eBooks - Electronic
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