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Burlesque and the New Bump-N-Grind
by Michelle Baldwin  Publisher Comments Michelle Baldwin (aka, Vivienne VaVoom) brings the lost art of burlesque back to the forefront of pop culture....
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Orchesography
by Thoinot Arbeau Publisher Comments Probably the most valuable book on 16th-century dances and dance music. Describes the galliards, pavans, branles, gavottes, lavolta, basse dance, morris dance, canary, etc., with detailed instructions of steps involved. Throughout the text are references...
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Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance : Awakening Spirituality Through Movement & Ritual (00 Edition)
by Iris J. Stewart Publisher Comments Shows how dance, the highest expression of spirituality in cultures and traditions all over the world, is being integrated into the lives of women today. x The first book to explore women's spiritual expression--women's ways--through a study of dance x...
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The Dance (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Emily Fragos Publisher Comments A celebration in verse of the silent poetry of dance and the dancer, this anthology features a dizzying range of subjects: Chinese dagger dances and Hindu festival dances, belly dancers and whirling dervishes, high school proms and wedding waltzes, tango,...
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Dance for Export
by Naima Prevots Publisher Comments A little-known episode in the history of dance that illuminates the broader subject of cultural policy during the Cold War era....
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No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century
by Nancy Reynolds Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 745-849) and index....
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The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories
by Jacquel Shea Murphy Publisher Comments During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at...
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Social Dancing in America Volume 2
by Ralph G Giordano Publisher Comments This two volume set relates the history of the most popular social dances, where they began, which dances survived the test of time and why, and what attracted American men and women to social dancing in these periods. Unlike other books on social...
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Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979
by Tim Lawrence Publisher Comments Opening with David Mancuso's seminal Love Saves the Day Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s--from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell's Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown...
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Of the Presence of the Body
by Andre Lepecki Publisher Comments Writing at the dynamic intersection of dance and performance studies....
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I See America Dancing : Selected Readings, 1685-2000 (02 Edition)
by Maureen Needham Publisher Comments A diverse collection of documents and articles about dance in the United States....
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Bells of Change: Kathak Dance, Women and Modernity in India
by Pallabi Chakravorty Publisher Comments This is the first critical study of Kathak dance. The book traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to focus on the...
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Irish Moves: An Illustrated History of Dance and Physical Theatre in Ireland
by Deirdre Mulrooney Publisher Comments From Ninette de Valois to Jean Butler and Tom Hickey, this book showcases the stories of Ireland's unsung movers: actors, dancers, choreographers, playwrights, directors, and the few academics who dare to go where no words have gone before. Focusing on...
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Dance Anecdotes: Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, and Modern Dance
by Mindy Aloff Publisher Comments This book places South Asian history within broader supra-regional and world contexts, as well as within larger historical debates and theories that analyse the shape of the modern world. It is comprised of seventeen studies by historians, sociologists...
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Dancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet D'Action to Merce Cunningham
by Karen Eliot Publisher Comments The private and performance lives of five female dancers in Western dance...
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National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance
by John Charles Chasteen Publisher Comments John Chasteen examines the history behind sexually suggestive dances (salsa, samba, and tango) that brought people of different social classes and races together in Latin America....
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Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey (Cultural Studies of the United States)
by Julia L. Foulkes Publisher Comments In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other...
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Tap, the Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories, 1900-1955
by Rusty E Frank Publisher Comments From the vaudeville era, through the Astaire-Rogers movies, to the intricate artistry of bebop, tap has dominated American dance with its rhythm, originality, and humor. This book collects the voices and memories of thirty of America's best-loved tap...
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Rethinking Dance History: A Reader
by Alexandra Carter Publisher Comments From the "ballet de cours" of the 17th century to Matthew Bourne's" Swan Lake," this fascinating selection of new writing invites the reader to revisit key moments in the history of western theater dance practice. By taking a fresh approach to the study...
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The Encyclopaedia of Dancing
by Chas D'albert Publisher Comments Originally published in 1921. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...
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