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Ear Training for the Body: A Dancer's Guide to Music
by Katherine Teck  Publisher Comments A dance-oriented approach to the fundamentals of music. A Dance Book Club Main Selection....
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The Routledge Dance Studies Reader
by Alexandra Carter Publisher Comments The Routledge Dance Studies Reader represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz, South Asian dance and Black dance...
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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...
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Dance Words, Vol. 8
by Valerie Monthland Preston-dunlop Synopsis A collection of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers. This work presents people in dance, what they do, their movement, their sound and the space in which they work - from the standpoint of performers, choreographers, audiences and...
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Oxford Dictionary of Dance (00 Edition)
by Debra Craine Publisher Comments Here is a lively, informative roadmap to a truly protean art form, an ideal resource for everyone who loves Swan Lake or the Rockettes, Merce Cunningham or Fred Astaire. The Oxford Dictionary of Dance offers wide coverage of dancers, choreographers...
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Mastering Movement: The Life and Work of Rudolf Laban (Theatre Arts)
by John Hodgson Publisher Comments Like Picasso in painting, Stravinsky in music, or Stanislavski in theatre, Rudolf Laban (1879-1958) has been a seminal influence in contemporary arts. This is the first major study of Laban's movement theories and practice, exploring the ideas on...
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Inside Ballet Technique : Separating Fact From Fiction in the Ballet Class (94 Edition)
by Valerie Grieg Publisher Comments A general explanation of anatomy, kinesiology, and technique for ballet dancers, students, and teachers. A Dance Book Club Main Selection....
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School of Classical Dance
by Vera Kostrovitskaya Synopsis "School of Classical Dance" is the official textbook of the Vaganova School and takes the reader from the basic concepts of the syllabus to the most complicated exercises taught at the end of the eight-year course....
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A Queer History of Ballet
by Peter Stoneley Synopsis "A Queer History of the Ballet "is the first book-length study of ballet's queerness. It theorizes the queer potential of the ballet look, and provides historical analyses of queer artists and spectatorships. It demonstrates that ballet was a crucial...
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The Language of Ballet: A Dictionary (Dance Horizons Book)
by Thalia Mara Publisher Comments Complete definition and pronunciation guide for common ballet terms....
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Fit and Healthy Dancer (99 Edition)
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...
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Ballet Beginnings for Children: Book One: Pre-School Movement Fundamentals, Ages 3-4
by Rosemary Boross Publisher Comments Exercises that assist basic motor development are at the core of this guide for dance teachers who prepare very young children for ballet classes. Teaching strategies are organized around a complete lesson plan for a Fantasy Garden pre-ballet class that...
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Advice for Dancers: Emotional Counsel and Practical Strategies
by Linda H. Hamilton Publisher Comments The book is filled with answers to dancer's most often asked questions and offers practical methods for dealing with such difficult problems as eating disorders, substance abuse, ruthless competition, and performance anxiety. Advice for Dancers will...
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Staging Dance (98 Edition)
by Susan Cooper Publisher Comments "Staging Dance" is a practical handbook that covers all aspects of putting on a dance production. It highlights the current diversity of dance activities, choosing examples from working dance groups and from individual dancers. The book includes...
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The Dancers Foot Book
by Terry L Spilken Publisher Comments A complete guide to the common foot injuries of dancers in ballet, modern, jazz, and aerobic dance. Includes information for dance students, professionals, and teachers. Covers basic foot anatomy and has an alphabetical listing of injuries with...
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Dance Pathologies: Performance, Poetics, Medicine (Writing Science)
by Felicia Mccarren Publisher Comments " This book harvests the fruits of a decade of critical rethinking about Freud and Lacan and historical research into the history of medicine to rewrite the history of dance in literature, as literature, and against literature. In that way it is without...
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Basic Concepts in Modern Dance: A Creative Approach (Dance Horizons Book)
by Gay Cheney Publisher Comments A brief overview of modern dance history, and a discussion of basic body movement, improvisation, and choreography....
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An Introduction to Community Dance Practice
by Diane Amans Publisher Comments This introductory textbook is aimed at undergraduates studying community dance. Drawing on high profile contributors, the book is packed with case studies, interviews and examples that students can use to explore issues in contemporary dance...
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The Language of Dance (Language Of-- Series)
by Blue Mountain Arts Synopsis Created by the bestselling poet and artist team of Susan Polis Schutz and Stephen Schutz, this distinctive series of hardcover books has a perfect title for every customer. Each book showcases a collection of verse and quotations by the world's most...
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An Introduction to Community Dance Practice
by Diane Amans Publisher Comments This introductory textbook is aimed at undergraduates studying community dance. Drawing on high profile contributors, the book is packed with case studies, interviews and examples that students can use to explore issues in contemporary dance...
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