ISBN13: 9780819564139Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionA comprehensive and multifaceted anthology of dance history — ideal for the classroom. Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History…. Click Here to Read More
ISBN13: 9780873229432Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionWhether used alone or as a companion to Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, which establishes a foundation for the techniques described here, this unique guide shows you how to combine technical expertise with imagery skills to enrich your expressive repertoire. This versatile text and reference provides 583 imagery exercises designed to improve dance technique, artistic expression, and performance. More than 160 illustrations highlight images and exercises you can put to use…. Click Here to Read More
ISBN13: 9780768424416Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionTo the hungry seeker of truth this book reveals a serious, biblically sound revelation of God’s Purpose for creating dance, setting a high standard of holiness for the ministry of dance while promoting a much needed balance and order for dance in the…. Click Here to Read More
ISBN13: 9781416570615Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFrancesca Rivabuona is fifty and exhausted by the monotony of her life. Stuck in a stale marriage with grown children who have long since fled the coop, and desperate to escape the endless cycle of Upper East Side dinner parties and charity luncheons, she jumps at the chance to write an article about Buenos Aires for a glossy travel magazine.Francesca is instantly captivated by Buenos Aires’s palpable rhythm. She explores the city with her new friends — a group of tango dancers who…. Click Here to Read More
ISBN13: 9780736056304Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionGotta Tango is a superior instructional package for learning how to dance the authentic Argentine tango at a social level. Master teachers Alberto Paz and Valorie Hart take you on a journey through the rich culture, history, and music of Buenos Aires that inspired the romantic passion, alluring creativity, and natural elegance of the Argentine tango dance. You will learn the fundamentals and roles each partner plays in this exhilarating and intimate social dance. The…. Click Here to Read More
ISBN13: 9780486220369Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionDiscusses 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 information often difficult to locate in other books. Basic Principles of Classical…. Click Here to Read More
ISBN13: 9780871273185Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionWritten for the dance novice, this reference is a concise history of all forms of dance. Detailing the development of dance from its earliest beginnings, this guide covers the intersection of dance and religion, social dance, ballet, modern dance, tap, jazz, film and theatrical dance, and contemporary dance. This fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and includes a chapter on dance in the new millennium, along with lists of the social dances of Europe and America, basic ballet…. Click Here to Read More
Product DescriptionWritten by a physicist with professional dance training, Physics and the Art of Dance explains how dancers can achieve better, safer performances through an understanding of physics in motion. Using simple, non-technical terms, Kenneth Laws combines his knowledge of both physics and dance to describe how the laws of gravity, momentum, and energy affect dancing bodies. The book explores the natural laws that govern the subtleties of balance, the techniques of leaps and pirouettes, and the impressive lifts and turns executed by ballet partners. Finally, Laws offers…. Click Here to Read More
Product DescriptionOverwhelmed with the pain of a failed fifteen-year relationship, Camille Cusumano wanted badly to escape her life and heal her emotional wounds. After a violent encounter with her ex’s new girlfriend, Camille decided she had some serious soul-searching to do. She took off for Buenos Aires intending to stay a few short weeks, but when her search for inner peace met with her true passion of tango, she realized she’d need to stay in Argentina indefinitely.Tango is a memoir of falling in love with a country through the dance that embodies intensity, freedom, and passion…. Click Here to Read More
Product DescriptionThe shattering story of a dream which became a heartbreaking nightmare for one of America’s most famous ballerinas, Gelsey Kirkland, who chronicles her brilliant start as a dancer with George Balanchine, her legendary partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov, her agonizing descent into drugs, and her struggles to rise again. Dancing on My…. Click Here to Read More
