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Your Move A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

Your Move A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance establishes a fresh and original framework for looking at dance. In examining the basic elements of dance - the Alphabet of Movement - and using illustrations of movement technique and notation symbols it provides a new way to see to teach and to choreograph dance. This book gives a list of primary actions upon which all physical activity is gased focusing on both the functional and expressive sides of movement. It draws upon the author's broad experience in ballet modern and ethnic dance to reinterpret movement and to shed new light on the role of movement in dance. Your Move is an important book not only for dancers but also for instructors in sport and physical therapy. Each copy of Your Move comes complete with exercise sheets which can also be purchased separately. A teacher's guide has also been designed providing notes on each chapter approaches to the exploration of movement interpretation of the reading studies additional information of motif description and answers to the exercise sheets. An optional audio cassette with music written and recorded especially for use with the book is also available. | Your Move A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

GBP 130.00
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Milestones in Dance History

Milestones in Dance History

This introduction to world dance charts the diverse histories and stories of dancers and artists through ten key moments that have shaped the vast spectrum of different forms and genres that we see today. Designed for weekly use in dance history courses ten chosen milestones move chronologically from the earliest indigenous rituals and the dance crazes of Eastern trade routes to the social justice performance and evolving online platforms of modern times. This clear dynamic framework uses the idea of migrations to chart the shifting currents of influence and innovation in dance from an inclusive set of perspectives that acknowledge the enduring cultural legacies on display in every dance form. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social cultural political and artistic development of foundational subject areas. | Milestones in Dance History

GBP 34.99
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Dance Appreciation

Dance Appreciation

Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts. This book unfolds a brief history of dance with engaging insight into the social cultural aesthetic and kinetic aspects of various forms of dance. Dedicated chapters cover ballet modern tap jazz and hip-hop dance complete with summaries charts timelines discussion questions movement prompts and an online companion website all designed to foster awareness of and appreciation for dance in a variety of contexts. This wealth of resources helps to uncover the fascinating history that makes this art form so diverse and entertaining and to answer the questions of why we dance and how we dance. Written for the novice dancer as well as the more experienced dance student Dance Appreciation enables readers to learn and think critically about dance as a form of entertainment and art.

GBP 35.99
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The Aging Body in Dance A cross-cultural perspective

The Aging Body in Dance A cross-cultural perspective

What does it mean to be able to move? The Aging Body in Dance brings together leading scholars and artists from a range of backgrounds to investigate cultural ideas of movement and beauty expressiveness and agility. Contributors focus on Euro-American and Japanese attitudes towards aging and performance including studies of choreographers dancers and directors from Yvonne Rainer Martha Graham Anna Halprin and Roemeo Castellucci to Kazuo Ohno and Kikuo Tomoeda. They draw a fascinating comparison between youth-oriented Western cultures and dance cultures like Japan’s where aging performers are celebrated as part of the country’s living heritage. The first cross-cultural study of its kind The Aging Body in Dance offers a vital resource for scholars and practitioners interested in global dance cultures and their differing responses to the world's aging population. | The Aging Body in Dance A cross-cultural perspective

GBP 36.99
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Undergraduate Research in Dance A Guide for Students

Undergraduate Research in Dance A Guide for Students

Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills alongside examples of undergraduate research in dance scholarship. Dance can be studied as an expressive embodied art form with physical cognitive and affective domains and as an integral part of society history and vast areas of interdisciplinary content. To this end the guidance provided by this book will equip future dance professionals with the means to move the field of dance forward. Chapters 1–9 guide students through the fundamentals of research methods providing a foundation to help students get started in understanding research protocols and processes. Students will learn skills such as how to choose a research topic refine research questions conduct literature reviews cite sources synthesize and analyze data develop conclusions and results and present their findings. Chapters 10–19 detail forms of undergraduate research in a rich diversity of fields within dance that are taught in many collegiate dance programs including dance therapy history science psychology education and technology in addition to public scholarship choreography and interdisciplinary topics. The book also includes a final chapter which provides annotated online resources and many of its chapters are supported by examples of abstracts of capstone projects senior theses and conference presentations by undergraduate researchers across the United States. Suitable for both professors and students Undergraduate Research in Dance is an ideal reference book for any course that has a significant opportunity for the creation of new knowledge or as an essential interdisciplinary connection between dance and other disciplines. | Undergraduate Research in Dance A Guide for Students

GBP 36.99
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The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader has been expanded and updated giving readers access to thirty-seven essential texts that address the social political cultural and economic impact of globalization on embodiment and choreography. These interdisciplinary essays in dance scholarship consider a broad range of dance forms in relation to historical ethnographic and interdisciplinary research methods including cultural studies reconstruction media studies and popular culture. This new third edition expands both its geographic and cultural focus to include recent research on dance from Southeast Asia the People’s Republic of China indigenous dance and new sections on market forces and mediatization. Sections cover: Methods and approaches Practice and performance Dance as embodied ideology Dance on the market and in the media Formations of the field. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader includes essays on concert dance (ballet modern and postmodern dance tap kathak and classical khmer dance) popular dance (salsa and hip-hop) site-specific performance digital choreography and lecture-performances. It is a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding dance from a global and contemporary perspective.

GBP 39.99
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Loropetalum Fire Dance

Loropetalum Fire Dance

Loropetalum, also know as the Chinese Witch Hazels are absolutely magnifiecent, and 'Fire Dance' is a wonderful example, producing masses of spectacular, bright pink firework-like flowers from February and throughout spring. A plant for all seasons and for all gardens, 'Fire Dance' really is one of the most spectacular plants you can own!Incredibly exotic looking this highly prized beauty is actually very hardy and easy to grow. Its glorious, rich burgundy, oval shaped leaves contrast superbly against any green foliage. Often likened to sea coral, the highly unusual ribbon-shaped petals, explode from the centre just like a firework.Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, reaching a height and spread of 1m (3ft).

GBP 19.99
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Dance Music Manual

Dance Music Manual

Dance Music Manual aimed at the novice and seasoned professional alike takes the reader through the software and hardware needed to create original captivating and professional sounding music. Key features of Dance Music Manual include: How to create compelling professional-sounding original or remixed dance tracks. The differences between different genres and how to produce them. How to expose your tracks to their chosen audience and equip you with the skills to develop your career as a dance music producer and engineer. Along with the book is a companion website which provides examples of synthesis programming compression effects MIDI files and examples of the tracks discussed in this edition. The new and improved fourth edition covers processes and techniques used by music producers masters mixers and DJs. Each page is full of facts presented in a manner that is easy to absorb and implement.

GBP 36.99
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Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy International Perspectives on Theory Research and Practice

Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy International Perspectives on Theory Research and Practice

Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy contributes to the global interest in embodiment approaches to psychotherapy and to the field of dance movement psychotherapy specifically. It includes recent research innovative theories and case studies of practice providing an inclusive overview of this ever growing field. As well as original UK contributions offerings from other nations are incorporated making it more accessible to the dance movement psychotherapy community of practice worldwide.   Helen Payne brings together well-known experienced global experts along with rising stars from the field to offer the reader a valuable insight into the theory research and practice of dance movement psychotherapy. The contributions reflect the breadth of developing approaches covering subjects including: • combining dance movement psychotherapy with music therapy; • trauma and dance movement psychotherapy; • the neuroscience of dance movement psychotherapy; • the use of touch in dance movement psychotherapy; • dance movement psychotherapy and autism; • relational dance movement psychotherapy. Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy will be a treasured source for anyone wishing to learn more about the psychotherapeutic use of creative movement and dance. It will be of great value to students and practitioners in the arts therapies psychotherapy counselling and other health and social care professions. | Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy International Perspectives on Theory Research and Practice

GBP 38.99
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Lighting Dance A Study of Technical Philosophical and Psychological Shadows

Lighting Dance A Study of Technical Philosophical and Psychological Shadows

Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances. Through a series of experiments integrating light shadow and improvised dance movement it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms such as painting film and dance pieces from Loie Fuller the Russell Maliphant Dance Company Elevenplay Pilobolus and the Tao Dance Theater served to inspire and contextualise the study. From lighting to psychology from reviews to academic books shadows are examined as a symbolic and manipulative entity. The book also presents the dance solo Sombreiro which was created to echo the experiments with light shadow and movement aligned to an interpretation of cultural shadow (Jung 1954 in Samuels Shorter and Plaut 1986; Casement 2006; Ramos 2004; Stein 2004; and others). The historical development of lighting within dance practices is also outlined providing a valuable resource for lighting designers dance practitioners and theatre goers interested in the visuality of dance performances. | Lighting Dance A Study of Technical Philosophical and Psychological Shadows

GBP 36.99
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Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction for the beginning aerialist. It covers rigging equipment advice on optimal conditioning and a step-by-step guide to technique including anatomical references space and time considerations and elements of force when working with and against gravity. Specific movements and choreography are framed anatomically and together reflect the pattern and order of an aerial technique class. Challenges inherent to this type of dancing are discussed as well as wellness instruction and methods of altering these techniques for intermediate and advanced dancing. A companion website hosts video that corresponds with the technique and phrasing in the book. | Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

GBP 34.99
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Ethical Agility in Dance Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

Ethical Agility in Dance Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience. This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary dance training in Britain from dance educators scholars practitioners and artists. Through examining the politics values and ethics of learning dance today this book argues for the need of a re-assessment of the evolving practices in dance training and techniques. Key questions address how the concept of ‘technique’ and associated systems of training in dance could be redefined to enable the collaboration of skills and application of ideas necessary to twenty-first-century dance. The editors present these ideas in different modes of writing. This collection of essays conversations and manifestos offers a way to explore debate and grasp the shifting values of contemporary dance. Examining these values in the applied field of dance reveals a complex and contrasting range of ideas encompassing broad themes including the relationships between individuality and collectivity rigour and creativity and virtuosity and inclusivity. This volume points to ethical techniques as providing a way of navigating these contrasting values in dance. It serves as an invaluable resource for academics as well as practitioners and students. | Ethical Agility in Dance Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

GBP 38.99
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Just Dance 2025 - Nintendo eShop EUROPE

Just Dance 2025 - Nintendo eShop EUROPE

Get your friends and family together to let loose on Just Dance! Whether you want to take the party to a whole new level, exercise while having fun, or create special family moments, Just Dance 2025 Edition has something for everyone, with 40 hot new songs. Want to keep the party going? Subscribe to Just Dance+ and dance to hundreds of songs all year! 40 NEW AND FUN SONGS FOR EVERYONE There’s something for every taste in Just Dance 2025 Edition. Dance to chart-topping hits, pop party anthems,

GBP 16.62
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Just Dance 2025 - Playstation EUROPE

Just Dance 2025 - Playstation EUROPE

Get your friends and family together to let loose on Just Dance! Whether you want to take the party to a whole new level, exercise while having fun, or create special family moments, Just Dance 2025 Edition has something for everyone, with 40 hot new songs. Want to keep the party going? Subscribe to Just Dance+ and dance to hundreds of songs all year! 40 NEW AND FUN SONGS FOR EVERYONE There’s something for every taste in Just Dance 2025 Edition. Dance to chart-topping hits, pop party anthems,

GBP 14.84
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Nutrition for Dance and Performance

Nutrition for Dance and Performance

Nutrition for Dance and Performance is the first complete textbook written by an experienced dietitian specialising in the field of dance nutrition. It seeks to provide both dancers-in-training and instructors with practical advice on dance nutrition for health and performance. It is also highly relevant for dance professionals. With an in-depth and extensive coverage on all nutrition topics relevant to dancers this book covers nutrition for the scenarios dancers face including day-to-day training and rehearsals peak performance injuries immunonutrition nutrition and stress management. Information is included on topics applicable to individual dancers including advice for dancers with Type 1 diabetes and clinical conditions relating to gut health. The book guides the reader through the macronutrients making up the diet their chemical structure and their role in health and optimal performance. Readers are shown how to estimate energy and nutrient needs based on their schedule type of dance undertaken and personal goals before considering the practical aspects of dance nutrition; from nutrition planning to dietary supplements strategies for assessing the need to alter body composition and guidance on undertaking health-focused changes. Nutrition for Dance and Performance combines and condenses the author’s knowledge and many years of experience working in the dance industry to translate nutrition science into a practical guide. Bringing together the latest research in dance science and nutrition this book aims to be a trusted reference and practical textbook for students of Dance Dance Nutrition Dance Performance Sport Nutrition and Sport Science more generally as well as for those training in the dance industry dance teachers and professionals. Jasmine Challis is a freelance Registered Nutritionist (UK Association for Nutrition) and Dietitian registered with the Health Care Professions Council and is on the UK Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENR) focusing on dance. She completed an MRes in Sport and Exercise Science in 2018. She is on the Dance Medicine and Science Expert Panel for One Dance UK and is on the board of The Bridge Dance Project. She has worked across the dance field for over 30 years giving talks running workshops and providing 1:1 sessions for dancers and dance students.

GBP 32.99
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Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

This is an exploration of the vital and rapidly evolving world of Commercial Dance tracing the evolution and merging of Hip-Hop Club and Jazz dance styles from the music videos of the early 1980s to today's huge influence on pop music and dance in a multi-media culture. Chapters including ‘Iconic Moments’ and ‘Main Movers’ contextualise and analyse culturally significant works and choreographers. With direct contributions from an international array of industry leading dancers choreographers and creatives - including JaQuel Knight (Beyonce’s choreographer) Rich + Tone Talauega (Madonna & Michael Jackson collaborators) Rebbi Rosie (Rihanna’s dancer) Dean Lee (Janet Jackson’s choreographer) and Kiel Tutin (BLACKPINK’s choreographer) - this book shines a light on the creatives in the Commercial Dance industry who have made significant impacts not just on the world of dance but on popular culture itself. Chapters discussing dance history copyright law inclusivity and dance class culture as well as additional contributions from dance scholars enable this book to give credence to Commercial Dance as a legitimate academic area of study. This is a complete and comprehensive textbook for all dance students at any level of study on college university or conservatory courses. | Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

GBP 39.99
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Dance Access and Inclusion Perspectives on Dance Young People and Change

Dance Access and Inclusion Perspectives on Dance Young People and Change

The arts have a crucial role in empowering young people with special needs through diverse dance initiatives. Inclusive pedagogy that integrates all students in rich equitable and just dance programmes within education frameworks is occurring alongside enabling projects by community groups and in the professional dance world where many high-profile choreographers actively seek opportunities to work across diversity to inspire creativity. Access and inclusion is increasingly the essence of projects for disenfranchised and traumatised youth who find creative expression freedom and hope through dance. This volume foregrounds dance for young people with special needs and presents best practice scenarios in schools communities and the professional sphere. International perspectives come from Australia Brazil Cambodia Canada Denmark Fiji Finland India Indonesia Jamaica Japan Malaysia New Zealand Norway Papua New Guinea Portugal Singapore South Africa Spain Taiwan Timor Leste the UK and the USA. Sections include: inclusive dance pedagogy equality advocacy and policy changing practice for dance education community dance initiatives professional integrated collaborations | Dance Access and Inclusion Perspectives on Dance Young People and Change

GBP 38.99
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K-pop Dance Fandoming Yourself on Social Media

K-pop Dance Fandoming Yourself on Social Media

This book is about K-pop dance and the evolution and presence of its dance fandom on social media. Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork interviews choreography and participation-observation with 40 amateur and professional K-pop dancers in New York California and Seoul the book traces the evolution of K-pop dance from the 1980s to the 2020s and explains its distinctive feature called ‘gestural point choreography’ – front-driven two-dimensional decorative and charming movements of the upper body and face – as an example of what the author theorizes as ‘social media dance. ’ It also explores K-pop cover dance as a form of intercultural performance suggesting that by imitating and idolizing K-pop dance fans are eventually ‘fandoming’ themselves and their bodies. Presenting an ethnographic study of K-pop dance and its fandom this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Media Studies Korean Studies Performance Studies and Dance. | K-pop Dance Fandoming Yourself on Social Media

GBP 38.99
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Inter-Asia in Motion Dance as Method

Inter-Asia in Motion Dance as Method

This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies. The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of dance works artists genres and media from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance from Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde dance collaborations and from festival dance to dance on screen. Working against the Western-centric category of “Asian dance” and Western-centric theorizations of intercultural performance that foreground “East-West” relationships each contribution shows how dances in Asia make one another as their key aesthetic references beyond Eurocentric influences as well as how inter-Asia relations emerge from cultural geographical and aesthetic diversity within the region. This book is the first of its kind in both cultural studies and dance studies. It will contribute greatly to readers’ understanding of how performance shapes and transforms the cultural and political dynamics of inter-Asia with a focus on dance circulations in and across East South and Southeast Asia. Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of Dance Studies Performance Studies Cultural Studies Asian Studies International Relations and Politics History and Sociology. The chapters included in this book were originally published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. | Inter-Asia in Motion Dance as Method

GBP 130.00
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