Sep 24 2011
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Partner dancing
Dancing is an art form that has continually evolved over the years but it has been deeply attached with humans and society. Hence, partner dancing have become an integral core of this art form and might even have deep spiritual, cultural, or social meaning, depending on which particular part of the world it originated.
In the case of partner dancing, two individuals perform coordinated dance choreography. However, there are some dance forms that require each partner to perform individually.
Concept of Leader and Follower
Just like in a social setting, partner dances also incorporate roles into each participant. The man is often assigned as the “leader”, while the woman is the “follower”. These two individuals maintain a connection all throughout the dance, thus making it more of a social experience than just a simple act of dancing.
Types of Dance Partner Connections
There are different types of connection that is established between two dancing partners during a particular dance routine. Below are two of general forms of connection between two dancing partnerrs:
- Dance handhold. In this type of dance, the connection between both partners is rather loose.
- Dance frame. In other types of dance connection, there is body contact involving that connection. Hence, there are certain restrictions to your body position during dance sequence. A dance frame is relegated to each dancer, which makes it a crucial concept to each dancing partner.
Dances with Same Sex Partners
The typical idea with partner dances is that it often involves two individuals of the opposite sex, which is a type of dance involving man and woman. But there are various types of partner dancing that involve two individuals of the same sex, particularly in several western societies.
It is still treated unusual by outsiders though, while the idea of both women dancing together is more acceptable as compared to that of two men. But as more of these types of dancing are becoming more prevalent, this has been gradually accepted by the general society, especially in social situations wherein there are insufficient partners of the opposite sex. Such dances do not even take into account the sexual orientation of individuals involved during dance, while most have adapted a “comedy value” to them.
Double Partner Dance
In this type of partner dances, there are three persons involved and dancing together. It could either be one man with two women, or one woman with two men. This type of partner dancing is only done for social dancing with significant demographic disproportion amongst the two sexes. Hence, this was quite common during the years of war wherein there is not enough women in the army, or the civilians only had women as dancers.
It was not until during the 1980s though that double partner dances was officially acknowledged as a type of partner dancing. It quickly became popular amongst Hustle, Swing, Ceroc, and Salsa dancing communities. In most cases, only one serves as a leader and the two other dancing partners are mere followers. Nowadays, you will also find several folk dances that are partnered after this setup, but it typically involves one man and two women.
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Blue Is the Sea: Music, Dance & Visual Arts $42.75 Used – This book addresses the practice of arts integration using a basic approach for the music and dance classroom. It features 25 themes with music, poetry, dance and visual art activities for preschool through middle school students. It includes: . Lesson examples applicable to students of all ages.. Pedagogical and methodological ideas for teaching music and visual arts.. Games, songs and poems with body percussion and orchestrations for the Orff instrument ensemble.. Movement exploration a |
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Blue Is the Sea: Music, Dance & Visual Arts $55.75 New – This book addresses the practice of arts integration using a basic approach for the music and dance classroom. It features 25 themes with music, poetry, dance and visual art activities for preschool through middle school students. It includes: . Lesson examples applicable to students of all ages.. Pedagogical and methodological ideas for teaching music and visual arts.. Games, songs and poems with body percussion and orchestrations for the Orff instrument ensemble.. Movement exploration an |
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Blue Is the Sea: Music, Dance & Visual Arts $40.5 Used – This book addresses the practice of arts integration using a basic approach for the music and dance classroom. It features 25 themes with music, poetry, dance and visual art activities for preschool through middle school students. It includes: . Lesson examples applicable to students of all ages.. Pedagogical and methodological ideas for teaching music and visual arts.. Games, songs and poems with body percussion and orchestrations for the Orff instrument ensemble.. Movement exploration a |
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Blue Is the Sea: Music, Dance & Visual Arts $42.75 New – This book addresses the practice of arts integration using a basic approach for the music and dance classroom. It features 25 themes with music, poetry, dance and visual art activities for preschool through middle school students. It includes: . Lesson examples applicable to students of all ages.. Pedagogical and methodological ideas for teaching music and visual arts.. Games, songs and poems with body percussion and orchestrations for the Orff instrument ensemble.. Movement exploration an |
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Bodies In Commotion $32.93 A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It’’s a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn. -Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as bodies in commotion -bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance. In the book’’s essays, leading critics and artists explore topics that range from theater and dance to multi-media performance art, agit-prop, American Sign Language theater, and wheelchair sports. Bodies in Commotion is the first collection to consider the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, producing a dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars. |
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Bodies In Motion $62.5 Bodies in Motion: Spanish Vanguard Poetry, Mass Culture, and Gender Dynamics examines Spanish avant-garde poetry within the context of the culture of the twenties that promoted physical movement and values of change, youthfulness, and freedom. Dance, sports, and the machine are singled out because they clearly set the body in motion and helped create a radically new outlook on life. References are made to sociopolitical factors and special attention is paid to gender. The interplay between poetry and its cultural environment attests to the influence social practices exert on the creative process and also to the capacity of poetic discourse to textualize reality, renew itself, and reinvent art. |
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Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance $32.5 “A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It’s a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn.”-Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-AmherstThis groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as “bodies in commotion”-bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance. In the book’s essays, leading critics and artists explore topics that range from theater and dance to multi-media performance art, agit-prop, American Sign Language theater, and wheelchair sports. Bodies in Commotion is the first collection to consider the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, producing a dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars. |
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Body Motion: A Guide to Athletics and Aesthetics Using Your Body, Including Cheerleading, Gymnastics, Dance, and More $16.24 New – Read about athletics that require you to use your talent as you move your body. Learn about grade school, collegiate, and professional cheerleading, as well as the various types of gymnastics, such as rhythmic and acrobatic. In addition, read about how dance is a unique art form, whether it be classic, contemporary, or modern. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this |
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Body Motion: A Guide to Athletics and Aesthetics Using Your Body, Including Cheerleading, Gymnastics, Dance, and More $16.24 Used – Read about athletics that require you to use your talent as you move your body. Learn about grade school, collegiate, and professional cheerleading, as well as the various types of gymnastics, such as rhythmic and acrobatic. In addition, read about how dance is a unique art form, whether it be classic, contemporary, or modern. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this |
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Ceremonial Dance $55.2 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ceremonial dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is ceremonial or ritualistic. Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance may also be regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans, and is also performed by other ani |
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Ceremonial Dance $55.2 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ceremonial dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is ceremonial or ritualistic. Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance may also be regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans, and is also performed by other ani |
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Ceremonial Dance $45.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ceremonial dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is ceremonial or ritualistic. Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance may also be regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans, and is also performed by other animals (bee dance, patterns of behaviour such as a mating dance). Gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are sports that incorporate dance, while martial arts kata are often compared to dances. Motion in ordinarily inanimate objects may also be described as dances (the leaves danced in the wind). |
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Chinese Art of T’Ai Chi Ch’uan $32.6 Used – T’ai Chi Ch’uan, which literally means “The Supreme Ultimate”, has proved itself over and over again to be one of the finest ways of improving health and creating tranquillity throughout the entire nervous system, creating a deep peace of mind. T’ai Chi consists of a system of body movements designed to promote physical, mental, emotional and spiritual harmony. This guide introduces all these different aspects of the art, including: T’ai Chi sword and T’ai Chi dance; 140 stances, with pho |
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Chinese Art of T’Ai Chi Ch’uan $0.99 Used – T’ai Chi Ch’uan, which literally means “The Supreme Ultimate”, has proved itself over and over again to be one of the finest ways of improving health and creating tranquillity throughout the entire nervous system, creating a deep peace of mind. T’ai Chi consists of a system of body movements designed to promote physical, mental, emotional and spiritual harmony. This guide introduces all these different aspects of the art, including: T’ai Chi sword and T’ai Chi dance; 140 stances, with pho |
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Choreography: The Art of the Body $21.89 New – The author writes: This book was conceived after 35 years of work in dance which had brought me in touch with almost every kind of form and philosophy and which had suggested to me certain conclusions which I was anxious to articulate. My appointment as dance lecturer at the University of Birmingham in 1965 provided me with the opportunity to work out these conclusions in a practical way and gave me the incentive to write this book.When I returned to London in 1978 I found a great striving |
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Concerto of Life $54.21 The focus of this book is based on the author and character’’s passion for Art especially music and dance through a combination of short stories (Fiction / Gay, Semi autobiographical), letters and poetry with their own take on life and unique interpretations and reflections of the individuals. As is the case in the first story which is a compilation of short stories arranged as chapters. The first chapter is a metaphoric compilation of the written and spoken word presented in the context of an orchestral composition; in this case, three instruments, the human mind, body and soul or spirit! |
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Creative Healing: How Anyone Can Use Art, Writing, Music, and Dance to Heal Body and Soul $0.99 Used – The bestselling author of “Seeing with the Mind’s Eye” reveals the medically tested science of helping people to find their own creativity and use it to achieve emotional and physical well-being. 25 illustrations. |
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Creative Healing: How Anyone Can Use Art, Writing, Music, and Dance to Heal Body and Soul $3.4 New – The bestselling author of “Seeing with the Mind’s Eye” reveals the medically tested science of helping people to find their own creativity and use it to achieve emotional and physical well-being. 25 illustrations. |
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Creative Healing: How to Heal Yourself by Tapping Your Hidden Creativity $25.23 Used – All across the country, a groundbreaking movement is forming in the field of health care: art and medicine are becoming one, with remarkable results. In major medical centers such as the University of Florida, Duke, University of California, and Harvard Medical School, patients confronting life-threatening illness and depression are using art, writing, music, and Dance to heal body and soul. A woman with breast cancer who has never made art before finds healing and empowerment by creating |
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Creative Healing: How to Heal Yourself by Tapping Your Hidden Creativity $26.24 New – All across the country, a groundbreaking movement is forming in the field of health care: art and medicine are becoming one, with remarkable results. In major medical centers such as the University of Florida, Duke, University of California, and Harvard Medical School, patients confronting life-threatening illness and depression are using art, writing, music, and Dance to heal body and soul. A woman with breast cancer who has never made art before finds healing and empowerment by creating |
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Dance $65.99 Dance is a sport and art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance may also to regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans, and is also performed by other animals (bee dance, patterns of behaviour such as a mating dance). Gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are sports dance disciplines, while martial arts kata are often compared to dances. Motion in inanimate objects may also be described as dances (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres. Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as folk dance) to virtuoso techniques such as ballet. Dance can be participatory, social or performed for an audience. It can also be ceremonial, competitive or erotic |
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Dance (Event) $60 Used – Dance is a sport and art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance may also to regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans, and is also performed by other animals (bee dance, patterns of behaviour such as a mating dance). Gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are sports dance disciplines, while martial arts kata |
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Dance (Event) $52.8 Used – Dance is a sport and art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance may also to regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans, and is also performed by other animals (bee dance, patterns of behaviour such as a mating dance). Gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are sports dance disciplines, while martial arts kata |
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Dance (Event) $57.6 Used – Dance is a sport and art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance may also to regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans, and is also performed by other animals (bee dance, patterns of behaviour such as a mating dance). Gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are sports dance disciplines, while martial arts kata |
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Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology $69 All dancers are looking to achieve optimal performance—and Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology will help them do just that.This text helps dancers learn anatomical and biomechanical principles as they apply to dance performance. It focuses on optimal dance movement and the related principles for understanding the function of body joints. And by applying those principles, dancers can help reduce their risk of injury and enhance their performance longevity.In addition, Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology includes special practical applications:-Concept Demonstrations provide hands-on exercises to try.-Tests and Measurements are specific to selected regions of the body.-Dance Cues help analyze cue effectiveness and promote optimal movement execution.-Study Questions and Applications help apply chapter concepts.-Attachments provide the pronunciations, attachments, and key actions of the primary muscles covered in this text.The first two chapters cover the skeletal and muscular systems as they apply to dance and provide basic anatomical terminology and concepts. Chapters 3 through 7 delve into specific areas of the body—the spine, the pelvic girdle and hip joint, the knee and patellofemoral joints, the ankle and foot, and the upper extremity. These chapters encompass primary bones, muscles, joints, alignment deviations, mechanics, and injuries for the given region, with special considerations for dance. They present strength and flexibility exercises to help dancers improve technique and prevent injuries. And they contain many practical exercises and examples that are specific to dance technique to help dancers apply the material. The material is augmented by more than 250 illustrations and nearly 350 photographs, which will appeal to the visual learning abilities of many dancers and reinforce the connection between technique and art.The final chapter presents a schema to help analyze |
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Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology $69 All dancers are looking to achieve optimal performance—and Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology will help them do just that.This text helps dancers learn anatomical and biomechanical principles as they apply to dance performance. It focuses on optimal dance movement and the related principles for understanding the function of body joints. And by applying those principles, dancers can help reduce their risk of injury and enhance their performance longevity.In addition, Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology includes special practical applications:-Concept Demonstrations provide hands-on exercises to try.-Tests and Measurements are specific to selected regions of the body.-Dance Cues help analyze cue effectiveness and promote optimal movement execution.-Study Questions and Applications help apply chapter concepts.-Attachments provide the pronunciations, attachments, and key actions of the primary muscles covered in this text.The first two chapters cover the skeletal and muscular systems as they apply to dance and provide basic anatomical terminology and concepts. Chapters 3 through 7 delve into specific areas of the body—the spine, the pelvic girdle and hip joint, the knee and patellofemoral joints, the ankle and foot, and the upper extremity. These chapters encompass primary bones, muscles, joints, alignment deviations, mechanics, and injuries for the given region, with special considerations for dance. They present strength and flexibility exercises to help dancers improve technique and prevent injuries. And they contain many practical exercises and examples that are specific to dance technique to help dancers apply the material. The material is augmented by more than 250 illustrations and nearly 350 photographs, which will appeal to the visual learning abilities of many dancers and reinforce the connection between technique and art.The final chapter presents a schema to help analyze |
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Dance Between Two Cultures: Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States $24.95 Offers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both critical and popular interest. In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and poetic works of the newest literary movement to emerge in Spanish American and U.S. literatures. The book is divided into three sections, each focused on representative Puerto Rican American, Cuban American, and Dominican American authors. Luis traces the writers’ origins and influences from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing especially on the contemporary works of Oscar Hijuelos, Julia Alvarez, Cristina Garcia, and Piri Thomas, among others. While engaging in close readings of the texts, Luis places them in a broader social, historical, political, and racial perspective to expose the tension between text and context. As a group, Latino Caribbeans write an ethnic literature in English that is born of their struggle to forge an identity separate from both the influences of their parents’ culture and those of the United States. For these writers, their parents’ country of origin is a distant memory. They have developed a culture of resistance and a language that mediates between their parents’ identity and the culture that they themselves live in. Latino Caribbeans are engaged in a metaphorical dance with Anglo Americans as the dominant culture. Just as that dance represents a coming together of separate influences to make a unique art form, so do both Hispanic and North American cultures combine to bring a new literature into being. This new body of literature helps us to understand not only the adjustments Latino Caribbean cultures have had to make within the larger U.S. environment but also how the dominant culture has been affected by their presence. |
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Dance and Lived Body $25.01 In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through the existential and phenomenological literature on the lived body. She describes, with performance photographs, specific imagery in dance masterworks by Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Viola Farber, Nina Weiner, and Garth Fagan. |
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Dance and architecture: Body, form, space and transformation. $49.99 The essence of a place is constantly affected by the cultural and traditional values that change and evolve through time. These changes take place due to changes in social, political, and religious behaviors and affect the context in which architecture is sited. They not only impact architecture but all streams of arts, music, theater and dance. In India, dance has deep cultural roots and over time has undergone immense transformation. Contemporary dancers have always looked back at the roots for inspiration and advancement in their field. Similarly architecture has the opportunity to be more meaningful by drawing inspiration from tradition. Both the dancer and the architect manipulate spaces, a dancer through the movement of the body and an architect by the design of built forms. Through the design of a Performing Arts Center for Odissi dance in Orissa, India, this thesis investigates how external influences lead to the transformation of these art forms; how inter-disciplinary studies can influence the design of the built form. |
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Dance and architecture: Body, form, space and transformation. $49.99 The essence of a place is constantly affected by the cultural and traditional values that change and evolve through time. These changes take place due to changes in social, political, and religious behaviors and affect the context in which architecture is sited. They not only impact architecture but all streams of arts, music, theater and dance. In India, dance has deep cultural roots and over time has undergone immense transformation. Contemporary dancers have always looked back at the roots for inspiration and advancement in their field. Similarly architecture has the opportunity to be more meaningful by drawing inspiration from tradition. Both the dancer and the architect manipulate spaces, a dancer through the movement of the body and an architect by the design of built forms. Through the design of a Performing Arts Center for Odissi dance in Orissa, India, this thesis investigates how external influences lead to the transformation of these art forms; how inter-disciplinary studies can influence the design of the built form. |
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Dance and the Lived Body $19.09 Used – “To those of us who dance, Fraleigh’s words reflect and extend our understanding of moving as a human body…. Her exploration of the philosophical aspects of dance serves as a reminder of how vital (and ornery) that terrain can be”.Sarah B. Fowler, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism |
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Dance and the Lived Body $24.95 Examines and describes dance astheexistential art form, through the experience of dancing in relation to existential and phenomenological literature on the lived body. |
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Dance of the Butterfly (Dance Series #2) $7.5 Book 2 in the Dance series. Magnus Thorvald, as strong and stubborn as the oak he carves, steers clear of loose women since his ex-wife’s betrayal.Kat Donaldson, thirty-something free spirit, suburban Philadelphia art gallery owner, and enthusiastic sexclub devotee, meets the first man who won’t say yes.When Kat hears about an obscure artist’s uncommon talent, she tracks him down to a rural corner of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he lives in a stone barn like a monk. Overwhelmed by the power of his carvings, she offers to represent him. Her blatantly sexy attire warns Magnus away from the tall, willowy redhead even as she ignites unwanted feelings of lust. Despising his body’s instant reaction, he turns her down flat.This only makes Kat more determined—she has a reputation for launching new talent. Plus, the sight of this magnificent Viking, six-five with blond hair and glacier-blue eyes, kicks her libido into instant lust.When Magnus’ irrepressible younger brother agrees to pose nude for Kat’s art class, all hell breaks loose as he makes Magnus jealous enough to go after what he wants.Note: Although this book can be read as a stand-alone, some references are made to characters and situations from Book 1 in the series, Dance of the Seven Veils. |
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Dance of the Sexes: Art and Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro $9.95 Used – This book reveals that Alice Munro’s gender very much colours and influences her fiction in dramatic ways, expressing itself in what feminist theorists have identified as ‘writing the body’. Beverly Rasporich examines Munro as folk artist, ironist, and regionalist in relation to her femaleness and feminism. |
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Democracy’s Body – PB $24.62 New – Democracy’s Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater–a popular center of dance experimentation in New York’s Greenwich Village–and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s. |
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Democracy’s Body – PB $10 Used – Democracy’s Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater–a popular center of dance experimentation in New York’s Greenwich Village–and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s. |
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Democracy’s Body: Judson Dance Theatre, 1962-1964 $10.33 Democracy’s Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater–a popular center of dance experimentation in New York’s Greenwich Village–and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s. |
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Discover Bellydance-Basic Dance $5.36 Join Veena & Neena Bidasha for a wonderful introduction to the extraordinary benefits of Bellydance. They have practiced Bellydance since childhood and traveled throughout the world to develop, refine and perform their techniques. Veena & Neena have performed in film, television, theater, music videos and at the Academy Awards. Their amazing talent and delightful style will keep you captivated and totally motivated as you learn the art of Bellydance. To watch a bellydancer is to be held spellbound by her exotic beauty and sultry movements. Each shimmy, graceful arm movement and beguiling stare is an expression of sensuality. Now, for the first time, you can be that dancer! The Discover Bellydance series teaches you authentic Egyptian Bellydance moves and fully choreographed dance routines. This program introduces the fundamental movements of Bellydancing. You will learn the basic dance moves that will enable you to perform a fully choreographed dance routine. After a satisfying warm-up, you will receive step-by-step instructions from identical twins, Veena & Neena, on how to execute the upper and lower body movements associated with Bellydance. The elements are isolated and taught slowly, so you can learn each one’s subtleties. As you become more comfortable with the moves, you can develop speed and expression. Veena & Neena will teach you hip drops and shimmies, undulations, half-turns and wrist circles combined with graceful arm and shoulder moves. Now you are ready to integrate these movements into a fun and exciting choreographed dance routine. |
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Discover Bellydance-Beyond Basic Dance $5.03 Join Veena & Neena Bidasha for a wonderful introduction to the extraordinary benefits of Bellydance. They have practiced Bellydance since childhood and traveled throughout the world to develop, refine and perform their techniques. Veena & Neena have performed in film, television, theater, music videos and at the Academy Awards. Their amazing talent and delightful style will keep you captivated and totally motivated as you learn the art of Bellydance. To watch a bellydancer is to be held spellbound by her exotic beauty and sultry movements. Each shimmy, graceful arm movement and beguiling stare is an expression of sensuality. Now, for the first time, you can be that dancer! The Discover Bellydance series teaches you authentic Egyptian Bellydance moves and fully choreographed dance routines. This program introduces the fundamental movements of Bellydancing. You will learn the basic dance moves that will enable you to perform a fully choreographed dance routine. After a satisfying warm-up, you will receive step-by-step instructions from identical twins, Veena & Neena, on how to execute the upper and lower body movements associated with Bellydance. The elements are isolated and taught slowly, so you can learn each one’s subtleties. As you become more comfortable with the moves, you can develop speed and expression. Veena & Neena will teach you hip drops and shimmies, undulations, half-turns and wrist circles combined with graceful arm and shoulder moves. Now you are ready to integrate these movements into a fun and exciting choreographed dance routine. |
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Discover Bellydance-Mystic Dance $9.51 Join Veena & Neena Bidasha for a wonderful introduction to the extraordinary benefits of Bellydance. They have practiced Bellydance since childhood and traveled throughout the world to develop, refine and perform their techniques. Veena & Neena have performed in film, television, theater, music videos and at the Academy Awards. Their amazing talent and delightful style will keep you captivated and totally motivated as you learn the art of Bellydance. To watch a bellydancer is to be held spellbound by her exotic beauty and sultry movements. Each shimmy, graceful arm movement and beguiling stare is an expression of sensuality. Now, for the first time, you can be that dancer! The Discover Bellydance series teaches you authentic Egyptian Bellydance moves and fully choreographed dance routines. This program introduces the fundamental movements of Bellydancing. You will learn the basic dance moves that will enable you to perform a fully choreographed dance routine. After a satisfying warm-up, you will receive step-by-step instructions from identical twins, Veena & Neena, on how to execute the upper and lower body movements associated with Bellydance. The elements are isolated and taught slowly, so you can learn each one’s subtleties. As you become more comfortable with the moves, you can develop speed and expression. Veena & Neena will teach you hip drops and shimmies, undulations, half-turns and wrist circles combined with graceful arm and shoulder moves. Now you are ready to integrate these movements into a fun and exciting choreographed dance routine. |
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Do Increases in Physical Fitness Affect Aesthetic Components in Dance? $86.4 Used – To achieve a fluid, elegant performance the dancer must have control over every joint in the body, requiring a balance between strength and flexibility. For optimal performance dancers must be expert in the aesthetic and technical side of the art, psychologically prepared to handle the stress of critical situations and free from injury. They must also be physically fit. Unlike sport, however, fitness training has not been generally considered necessary for a successful dance career. This |
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Do Increases in Physical Fitness Affect Aesthetic Components in Dance? $86.4 New – To achieve a fluid, elegant performance the dancer must have control over every joint in the body, requiring a balance between strength and flexibility. For optimal performance dancers must be expert in the aesthetic and technical side of the art, psychologically prepared to handle the stress of critical situations and free from injury. They must also be physically fit. Unlike sport, however, fitness training has not been generally considered necessary for a successful dance career. This p |
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Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema $210.95 New – From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In Dying Swans and Madmen, Adrienne L. McLean explores the curious pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the ambivalent place t |
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Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema $19.95 From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In Dying Swans and Madmen, Adrienne L. McLean explores the curious pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the ambivalent place that this art form occupies in American life.Drawing on examples that range from musicals to tragic melodramas, she shows how commercial films have produced an image of ballet and its artists that is associated both with joy, fulfillment, fame, and power and with sexual and mental perversity, melancholy, and death. Although ballet is still received by many with a lack of interest or outright suspicion, McLean argues that these attitudes as well as ballet’s popularity and its acceptability as a way of life and a profession have often depended on what audiences first learned about it from the movies. |
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Easy Belly Dancing $6.89 Learn The Art of This Beautiful and Timeless Dance Product Information Enjoy a beautiful and fun way to get in shape! Belly dancing is a low-impact aerobic exercise that will strengthen and tone your muscles, especially in your core. Just follow along as our expert instructor demonstrates specialized exercises and belly dance moves, then performs a dance in costume. Product Features Fundamental moves and practice sequences Covers body movements, hand motions, and footwork Brief history of belly dance Demonstration of a dance in costume Windows Requirements Windows XP, Vista Pentium II 300 MHz processor (Pentium 4 1.2 GHz for Vista) 150 MB free Hard Disk space 800 x 600 monitor, 16-bit color 64 MB of RAM (128 MB for Vista) DirectSound compatible Sound Card and speakers 64 MB DirectX compatible Video Card (128 MB for Vista) 16X or faster CD-ROM drive Macintosh Requirements Mac OS 9.2, OS X Classic, OS X iMac or G3 300 MHz or faster processor 800 x 600 monitor, thousands of colors or more 64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended) 16X or faster CD-ROM drive |
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Eiko & Koma: Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty $22.55 New – Operating at the intersections of dance, art and performance for nearly 40 years, acclaimed Japanese movement/performance artists Eiko & Koma have built up an enormously influential body of movement-theater productions, including theatrically staged performances, site works, dance videos, gallery-based performance installations and collaborations with leading music, dance and visual artists. “Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty” presents a complete, illustrated catalogue of their dance wo |
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Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism $16.98 “In Electric Salome, Rhonda Garelick persuasively makes the case that Loie Fuller was central to the transition to modernism in politics, theater, modern dance, and neoclassical ballet. In elegant, often witty, always evocative prose, Garelick shows that Fuller’s relative obscurity is the consequence not of her lack of originality, but of a role so strange and so individual that it has resisted the fluid narratives of social and artistic history. This brilliant book will correct those impoverished records.”–Andrew Solomon, winner of the National Book Award and author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression”Garelick’s extraordinarily astute analysis of Loie Fuller, surely one of the richest performers of her age, draws on insights from postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, the history of science, queer studies, as well as the history of modern drama and dance, to unveil a Fuller we have never seen before. Electric Salome is a great read and a wonderfully layered contribution to dance and performance studies.”–Peggy Phelan, Stanford University”Electric Salome represents an important and provocative revision in modernist performance historiography. Garelick demonstrates convincingly Loie Fuller’s standing as a liminal figure, refashioning classical ballet within a modernist frame, and as an undervalued influence, technically and aesthetically, on early modern dance and theater. Equally significant is Garelick’s compelling analysis of Fuller’s engagement with the latest trends in psychology, science, imperialist politics, and the business of art. Visually rich as well as broadly informed, Electric Salome provides new vistas for modernist studies.”–J. Ellen Gainor, Cornell University”Garelick’s splendidly detailed rendition of the odd triumphs and legacy of Loie Fuller and her technologized body is as electric as were La Loie’s performances: here are lots of hands clapping for this performance |
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Enter a Samurai: Kawakami Otojiro and Japanese Theatre in the West, Volume 1 $53.15 New – Looking back to the last years of the nineteenth century, veteran producer-director Joseph L. Anderson draws upon a monumental body of research gleaned from libraries and archives in seven countries to introduce the Japanese theatrical impresario Kawakami Otojiro. In 1899, Kawakami, his wife — the inspired dancer and actress Sadayakko — and his troupe went on epochal performance tours of the U.S. and Europe, introducing audiences to new forms of dramatic art and dance previously unseen i |
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Enter a Samurai: Kawakami Otojiro and Japanese Theatre in the West, Volume 1 $54.78 Used – Looking back to the last years of the nineteenth century, veteran producer-director Joseph L. Anderson draws upon a monumental body of research gleaned from libraries and archives in seven countries to introduce the Japanese theatrical impresario Kawakami Otojiro. In 1899, Kawakami, his wife — the inspired dancer and actress Sadayakko — and his troupe went on epochal performance tours of the U.S. and Europe, introducing audiences to new forms of dramatic art and dance previously unseen |
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Enter a Samurai: Kawakami Otojiro and Japanese Theatre in the West, Volume 2 $24.87 Used – Looking back to the last years of the nineteenth century, veteran producer-director Joseph L. Anderson draws upon a monumental body of research gleaned from libraries and archives in seven countries to introduce the Japanese theatrical impresario Kawakami Otojiro. In 1899, Kawakami, his wife — the inspired dancer and actress Sadayakko — and his troupe went on epochal performance tours of the U.S. and Europe, introducing audiences to new forms of dramatic art and dance previously unseen |
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Enter a Samurai: Kawakami Otojiro and Japanese Theatre in the West, Volume 2 $24.87 New – Looking back to the last years of the nineteenth century, veteran producer-director Joseph L. Anderson draws upon a monumental body of research gleaned from libraries and archives in seven countries to introduce the Japanese theatrical impresario Kawakami Otojiro. In 1899, Kawakami, his wife — the inspired dancer and actress Sadayakko — and his troupe went on epochal performance tours of the U.S. and Europe, introducing audiences to new forms of dramatic art and dance previously unseen i |
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Erotik $19.99 Kapitel: Sexbombe, Striptease, Cameltoe, Wollust, Der Ursprung Der Welt, Videokabine, Erotografie, Sexy Sport Clips, Pin-Up, Nude-Look, Page Three Girl, Erotismus, Sexsymbol, Erotische Fotografie, Kindfrau, Marcel Vértes, Sexkino, Tutti Frutti, Sexting, Tv6, Jennifer Schreiner, Catfight, Sexshop, Peep!, Poledance, Playgirl, Liebe Sünde, Boink, Dekolleté, Met Art, Wa(h)re Liebe, Tabledance, Uwe Scheid, Wet-T-Shirt-Contest, Claudia Gehrke, Beate Uhse Erotik-Museum, Carstuckgirls.com, Erotic Art Museum Hamburg, Sexappeal, Beate-Uhse.tv, Symplegma, Sinnlichkeit, Overknees, Blue Movie, Schlammcatchen, Sexysat, Schabernackt-Ball, Blue Hustler, Blue Movie Gay. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, usually to music, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner. The person who performs a striptease is commonly known as a stripper or exotic dancer. In Western countries, the venues where stripteases are performed on a regular basis are now usually called strip clubs, though they may be performed in venues such as pubs (especially in the UK), theaters and music halls. In addition to night club entertainment, stripping can be a form of sexual play between partners. This can be done as an impromptu event or-perhaps for a special occasion-with elaborate planning involving fantasy wear, music, special lighting, practiced dance moves, and even dance moves that have been previously unpracticed. Striptease involves a slow, sensuous undressing, with the audience urging the stripper to remove more clothing. The stripper may prolong the undressing with delaying tactics such as the wearing of additional clothes or putting clothes or hands in front of just undressed body parts, such as breasts or between the legs. Emphasis is on the act of undressing along with sexually suggestive movement, rather than the state of being undressed. |
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Essential Capoeira: The Guide to Mastering the Art $19.95 Fun, different, and above all effective, capoeira is a unique dance-fight-fitness program enhancing strength, stamina, and flexibility training for the entire body. While there are many books on the subject, this one differs in being a succinct yet thorough discussion of the basics to engage even the nervous novice. In clear, accessible language, author Mestre Ponchianinho explains the aims and benefits of the discipline, along with its history, origins, and philosophy. He continues by introducing the two main styles along with the techniques of the most famous mestres. Easy-to-follow warm-ups, basic moves, defense and escape moves, kicks, training combinations, strengthening exercises, ground movements; and more advanced acrobatic movements are all described and illustrated in step-by-step photographs. The author discusses the self-defense aspects, the importance of music in capoeira, the significance of the bateria, the hierarchy within the tradition, the grading system, and much more. Unlike other martial arts disciplines, capoeira lets practitioners give play to their artistry as well as their physicality, in the process sharpening the mind and spirit while energizing and strengthening the body. |
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Events In London $35.2 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Events at Wembley Stadium, Events at the Royal Albert Hall, Festivals in London, 1966 Fifa World Cup Final, 1948 Summer Olympics, Turner Prize, Eurovision Song Contest 1968, the Proms, Summerslam, List of Turner Prize Winners and Nominees, England V Hungary, 2007 Fa Cup Final, Miss World 1988, Sci-Fi-London, Miss World 1987, Music of the Spheres, Miss World 1985, Miss World 1984, Miss World 1981, 2008 Fa Cup Final, Dance Umbrella, Miss World 1983, Miss World 1979, Miss World 1982, Miss World 1986, Notting Hill Carnival, Miss World 1980, Wireless Festival, Miss World 1978, London Film Festival, 2000 Fa Cup Final, Miss World 1975, Miss World 1970, Lovebox Festival, Miss World 1977, London Design Festival, London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, Lord Mayor’s Show, Miss World 1976, Spitalfields Music, Frieze Art Fair, Birds Eye View, Miss World 1974, Wembley Cup, Leefest, Miss World 1973, London to Brighton Events, 2011 Uefa Champions League Final, the Secret Policeman’s Ball 2006, Asia House Festival of Asian Literature, Bbc Electric Proms, Miss World 1971, Young London Into Music, Miglia Quadrato, Miss World 1972, Dunwich Dynamo, 1925 Fa Cup Final, Royal Tournament, Miss World 1969, Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre, London Games Festival, Zoo Art Fair, the Secret Policeman’s Ball 2008, Festival of Empire, Ufc 38, International Poetry Incarnation, Equinox Festival, City of London Festival, the Cans Festival, Big Gay Out, Mind Body Spirit Festival, Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo, Breakin’ Convention, Cybersonica, Londinium Pedo, London Book Fair, Carnaval Del Pueblo, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Get Loaded in the Park, Pageant of Labour, Inside Out Festival, Carnival de Cuba, Angel Film Festival. Excerpt: The Proms, more formally known as Th… More: |
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Experiential Therapies for Eating Disorders $50 It should not surprise us that so many are finding unique value in the experiential techniques. The fact that eating-disordered patients adopt physical and often complex metaphoric means of expressing their emotional pain suggests the difficulty we are likely to encounter in asking them to articulate the inarticulable. In moving to spatial, kinesthetic, and symbolic expression, we are, in a sense, agreeing to speak the patient’s language rather than our own.Given the very nature of eating disorders, many clinicians are finding that experiential methods are particularly applicable for treating patients who suffer from them. Providing a valuable new tool for practitioners, EXPERIENTIAL THERAPIES FOR EATING DISORDERS is the first text to focus solely on the application of expressive therapies and experiential techniques to the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia.Each chapter of this innovative work systematically reviews a single experiential treatment approach. Among these are* guided imagery* hypnosis* structured eating* family sculpting• psychodrama and gestalt therapy* dance/movement therapy* art therapy* music therapy* and metaphor/poetry therapy.Throughout, important clinical issues that often accompany eating disorders also are addressed, including such topics as self-awareness, self-esteem, autonomy, identity, impulse regulation, affect modulation, body image, and interpersonal relationships. Countertransferential issues are examined, and areas needing further exploration such as father’s role in the development of eating disorders, the hypnotizability of eating disordered patients, and the role of family in the treatment process are delineated.The contributing authors, experienced practitioners from a variety of disciplines, systematically establish the theoretical framework of each treatment approach, fully describe specific techniques, and then consider their practical applications in both |
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From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France $1.99 In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king’s body through a gered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy mastered subjects’ minds by disciplining the body through dance, music, drama, art, and social rituals. The last essays in the volume focus on the unmaking of the king’s body and the substitution of a new, republican body. Throughout, the authors explore how race and gender shaped the body politic under the Bourbons and during the Revolution. This compelling study expands our conception of state power and demonstrates that seemingly apolitical activities like the performing arts, dress and ritual, contribute to the state’s hegemony. From the Royal to the Republican Body will be an essential resource for students and scholars of history, literature, music, dance and performance studies, gender studies, art history, and political theory. Author Biography: Sara E. Melzer is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Los Angeles, author of Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal’s Pensées (California, 1986), and coeditor (with Leslie W. Rabine) of Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution (1992). Kathryn Norberg is an Associate Professor at UCLA and former Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. She has coedited (with Philip T. Hoffman) Fiscal Crises, Liberty, and Representative Government, 1450-1789 (1994) and is the author of Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600-1814 (California, 1985). |
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From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating/Pol $1.41 Used – In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king’s body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy mastered subjects’ minds by disciplining the body through dance, music, drama, art, and social rituals. The last essays in the volume focus on the unmaking of the king’s body and the substituti |
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Hanya Holm in America, 1931–1936: Dance, culture and community. $69 Though she is widely considered one of the “four pioneers” of American modern dance, German-American Hanya Holm (1893-1992) occupies a shadowy presence in dance history literature. She has often been described as someone who fell in love with America, purged her approach of Germanic elements, and emerged with a more universal one. Her “Americanization” has served as evidence of the Americanness of modern dance, thus eclipsing the German influence on modern dance. This dissertation challenges that narrative by casting new light on Holm’s worldview and initial intentions in the New World, and by articulating the specifics of the first five years of her American career.;In contrast to previous histories, I propose that Holm did not come to the U.S. to forge an independent career as a choreographer; rather, she came as a missionary for Mary Wigman and her Tanz-Gemeinschaft (dance cultural community). To Wigman and Holm, dance was not only an art form; it was a way of life, a revolt against bourgeois sterility and modern alienation, and a utopian communal vision, even a religion. Artistic expression was only one aspect of modern dance’s larger purpose. The transformation of social life was equally important, and Holm was a fervent believer in the need for a widespread amateur dance culture.;This study uses a historical methodology and accesses traces of the past such as lectures, school reports, promotional material, newspaper articles, personal notebooks, correspondence, photographs, and other material—much of it discussed here for the first time. These sources provide evidence for new descriptions and interpretations of Holm’s migration from Germany to the U.S. and from German dance to American dance.;I examine cultural contexts that informed Holm’s beliefs, such as early twentieth century German life reform and body culture; provide a sustained analysis of the curriculum of the New York Wigman School of the Dance; and consider how the politicization of dance in the |
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Hijikata: Revolt of the Body $19.95 Hijikita: Revolt of the Body examines the life and work of Tatsumi Hijikata (1928–86), who invented a revolutionary performance art and dance known as Ankoku Butoh, or “Dance of Darkness.” The Butoh style of performance and movement premiered in Japan in 1959 and developed in subsequent years in response to the student riots and the 1960s protest movement. Hijikata is the supreme figure in the last half-century of Japan’s experimental culture, and he remains a seminal and inspirational presence for Japanese artists, choreographers, film-makers, musicians, and writers.            Based on extended interviews with Hijikata’s family and all of his surviving collaborators, this is the only book to focus exclusively on Hijikata and his work, including his interest in European art and figures such as Genet, Artaud, Sade, and Lautréamont, as well as the Japanese Surrealist movement. It also provides a unique, in-depth analysis of Japanese avant-garde culture of the 1960s—including film, visual art, and literature—in direct relation to Hijikata’s performance pieces.            Butoh and Hijikata’s performance art continue to grow in popularity and appreciation around the world, and this text is the definitive study of Hijikata and his radical art.“A brilliant and illuminating study of Hijikata and the Japanese avant-garde”—Donald Richie |
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Hoop Dance Fusion $17.99 Body Hoops instructor Diana Lopez leads viewers through an exciting program incorporating the art of hooping. Using large hoops… |
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Imagining the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture $33.18 This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various “imaginings” of the black female body in print and visual culture. Offering an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities of subjectivity and agency, this collection reveals black women’s expressivity as a multilayered enterprise, liberating and similarly confining. Thus these representations in art, literature, and culture perform a delicate and challenging dance of redemption—a redemption necessary to flesh out the precarious dynamics of being black and female at the turn of this century. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms.  |
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Imagining the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture $31.47 Used – This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various “imaginings” of the black female body in print and visual culture. Offering an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities of subjectivity and agency, this collection reveals black women’s expressivity as a multilayered enterprise, liberating and similarly confining. Thus these representations in art, literature, and culture perform a delicate and challenging dance of redemption–a redemption necessary to fle |
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Inclusive Creative Movement and Dance $34 Inclusive Creative Movement and Dance helps teachers guide students with diverse abilities to express their feelings and ideas through creative movement experiences involving dance learning, dance making, and dance sharing. Of equal value to new and veteran teachers, this book provides in-depth coverage of inclusive dance instruction, including teaching strategies, practical learning experiences, movement problems for students to solve, and more:-Open-ended movement explorations and inclusion suggestions help teachers accommodate the different learning needs of their students.-Learning experiences help students understand the elements of movement and dance (body actions and shapes, awareness of space, moving to time, awareness of energy and force, and awareness of relationships).-Teachers can select individual learning experiences or present a series of units for creative movement and dance.-National Standards for Dance Education, goals, movement glossary, journal reflection assignments, and simple assessments are incorporated into each unit for easier assessment and accountability.-Interdisciplinary activities at the end of each unit connect creative movement with classroom subjects—reading, writing, grammar, geography, astronomy, earth science, math, visual art, drama, and music—as appropriate.This book is organized into three parts. Part I presents a framework to help teachers envision dance for all their students. Part II prepares teachers to design inclusive dance experiences and extend them into performance and discussion. Part III is the book's heart and soul—more than 100 dance-learning experiences presented in five chapters, or units, that teachers can use in their classes for students of all ages and abilities. These chapters may be used either as separate units that each feature one of the five movement or dance elements for a thematic approach or as |
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Introduction to Complementary and Alternative Therapies $175 Discover creative new ways to facilitate the therapeutic process Therapeutic modalities that psychotherapists usually rely on—such as psychodynamic, humanistic, systems, cognitive, narrative, analytic and solution focused—are all verbal interventions. Introduction to Complementary and Alternative Therapies presents a comprehensive overview of complementary and alternative therapeutic interventions that go beyond the standard verbal approaches. The therapies presented in this book—including mindfulness and meditation, spirituality, poetry therapy, art therapy, psychodrama, dance/movement therapy, music therapy, animal-assisted therapy, and touch therapy—provide the reader with creative non-traditional modalities that are effective in conjunction with traditional treatment, or as substitutes. They may enrich talk-therapy, especially when therapists and/or clients get “stuck,” or they may provide healing on their own. Introduction to Complementary and Alternative Therapies explains the basics about how these nontraditional therapies work and provides vivid examples for utilizing them in treatment. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field of expertise, and includes a description of the approach, research evidence about its effectiveness, guidelines on how to use the therapy in practice, and case examples. This excellent volume also provides practitioners with a wide range of resources, including Web sites, information on state and national organizations, accrediting board info, and more. Topics in Introduction to Complementary and Alternative Therapies include: the mind-body relationship ways to integrate spirituality in counseling the healing components of poetry research studies on art therapy different techniques available in Psychodrama using body movement as a means of expressing conflicts and desires how music therapy promotes positive changes in the |
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Island Girl Dance Fitness Wk/O For Beginners-Tahitian Box $29.95 Kili welcomes you to Hawaii, her beautiful homeland, for a workout that will shake your regular routine. Tahitian Cardio and Tahitian Hip Hop are part of the Island Girl dance fitness series. Tahitian dance is the most sensual of the South Pacific, and Kili revels how it is also an energizing workout. These workouts will you burn calories will learning both traditional and hot new dance moves.TAHITIAN CARDIO: Kili demonstrates this unique dance method she calls her secret weapon for keeping in shape and having a bathing suit-ready body all year long. Kili has designed this workout to specifically target and tone legs, buns, and abs. You will learn three basic Tahitian moves: ‘ami, figure 8, and Tahitian bump. Combined with fitness steps, these moves offer an innovative and creative Tahitian Cardio workout to help you lose weight and shape the entire body.TAHITIAN HIP HOP: To create Tahitian Hip Hop, Kili combines the art form of Tahitian dance with her favorite hip hop moves. You will learn five basic Tahitian moves: ‘ami, figure 8, bump, flower, shimmy, and fa’arapu. These steps are designated to keeps the hips moving quickly while the upper body stays strong and engaged. The result is a challenging and enjoyable dance fitness experience that will keep you slim and toned. |
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Just Cook It!: How to Get Culinary Fit…1-2-3 $10.95 Discover the revolutionary way of “Thinking Differently” about cooking and eating. Learn how getting back-to-the-basics yet throwing out the rules can motivate you to hit the kitchen. Find out how you can create whimsical dishes for yourself, family and friends. Cook to your mood. Wow everyone with magical leftovers. Think of cooking as an art. Forget following strict recipes. Enjoy tasty meal ideas-without measurements.Just Cook It! will help you shed unwanted pounds and body fat and stay healthy forever. Isn’t that the bottom line? (You are what you eat. It’s about changing your eating habits.)Inside, you’ll find unique and wonderful ways to enjoy cooking so you can be your own personal chef. It’s time to retrain your brain and learn to cook. Get kitchen-friendly with Cooking Smarts 101. Be bold, resourceful and budget-wise. Kill the grocery shopping jitters and dance down the aisles. Find your groove in the kitchen, and much more!Roe Valenti is a veteran chef and caterer who cooks for herself, family and friends. A culinary goddess, she works hard at making cooking creative and easy for everyone, at any age. Cooking is her calling and she wants to share her one-of-a-kind recipe with you. |
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Katy – Sweet Nudes $5.99 David-Nudes.com Presents Katy in amazing art nudes! Enjoy over 100 original and high quality art nudes from her portfolio on David-Nudes.com!About KatyKaty is a very professional young woman who is completely devoted to her art. She travels all over the world and has probably worked with almost every famous artistic nudes photographer out there. Katy’s smooth movements and the ability to make any pose requested of her made working with her entirely pleasurable. Katy loves to peek at her photos during the session. Some might think it’s a vanity thing, but we got a feeling it was only for the purpose of making sure her and the photographer are on the same page. Besides being a model, Katy loves to dance, travel, and rescue animals. Luckily, her first two passions merge with her modeling career and are part of her full-time job. Katy brings her third passion, animals, everywhere she goes, by encouraging everyone to spay and neuter their pets. With her mutely expressive poses and artistic disposition, Katy brings you the classic artistry of an original nude model.Whats Inside This eBook?Inside this issue of Sweet Nudes, you will find over 100 full color high resolution photos from several awesome art nude photo sessions selected by David for this model. Each photo set presents to you its Poster and HD full color photos from each shoot. Enjoy! Photo Shoots Featured in this eBookKaty Stretching OutAmazing shapes of the nude body are created when she poses professionallyKaty SculptedBehold the living sculpture of perfection.Katy Natural HairSome like it smooth, personally we know you like it rough…Katy Hop On Baby…and hold on for the ride!Copyright 2011 David-Nudes.com. All Rights Reserved. |
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Knitwear in Fashion $5.84 Lacy dresses, glittering evening wear, body-contoured sweaters, luxury cashmere pieces, seamless lingerie….From Julien Macdonald’s cobweb confections and Lainey Keogh’s filigree works of art, through Prada’s sophisticated classics with a twist and Missoni’s rainbow stripes, to Martin Margiela’s avant-garde deconstructions and Issey Miyake’s revolutionary clothing concept A-POC, the best of today’s fashion designers are using radical ideas in knitwear design. Since the 1970s, developments in modern technology, a revival of traditional craft skills, and a new appreciation of couture workmanship have ensured knitwear’s place at the forefront of fashion.The enthusiasm for knitting is spreading to other creative fields. Fashion designers such as Jean-Paul Gaultier and Bodymap have collaborated in the creation of costumes for theater and dance. Accessory designers such as Jo Gordon and Hikaru Noguchi use knitting for their colorful and imaginative bags, scarves, gloves, and hats. Artists, including Maria Blaisse and Freddie Robins, inspired by experimental yarns and fabric processes, are creating knitted installations for museums and galleries. Product designers capitalize on the unique visual and light-filtering qualities of knitted fabrics to create remarkable furnishings, sculpture, lighting, and jewelry. Whether hand-knitted or industrially produced, whimsical or theatrical, ingenious or just plain beautiful, these pieces are all stunning examples of the new vogue in knitting. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs, Knitwear in Fashion shows off the best in international knitwork. An extensive reference section covers the technology of knitting, developments in design, and new fibers, and includes a glossary of technical terms and biographies of designers. This book is essential for anybody concerned with textiles, fashion, or contemporary design. 300 photographs and illustrations, 285 in color.Author Biography: Sandy Black is a Lecturer at |
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Knitwear in Fashion $29.95 Lacy dresses, glittering evening wear, body-contoured sweaters, luxury cashmere pieces, seamless lingerie….From Julien Macdonald’s cobweb confections and Lainey Keogh’s filigree works of art, through Prada’s sophisticated classics with a twist and Missoni’s rainbow stripes, to Martin Margiela’s avant-garde deconstructions and Issey Miyake’s revolutionary clothing concept A-POC, the best of today’s fashion designers are using radical ideas in knitwear design. Since the 1970s, developments in modern technology, a revival of traditional craft skills, and a new appreciation of couture workmanship have ensured knitwear’s place at the forefront of fashion.The enthusiasm for knitting is spreading to other creative fields. Fashion designers such as Jean-Paul Gaultier and Bodymap have collaborated in the creation of costumes for theater and dance. Accessory designers such as Jo Gordon and Hikaru Noguchi use knitting for their colorful and imaginative bags, scarves, gloves, and hats. Artists, including Maria Blaisse and Freddie Robins, inspired by experimental yarns and fabric processes, are creating knitted installations for museums and galleries. Product designers capitalize on the unique visual and light-filtering qualities of knitted fabrics to create remarkable furnishings, sculpture, lighting, and jewelry. Whether hand-knitted or industrially produced, whimsical or theatrical, ingenious or just plain beautiful, these pieces are all stunning examples of the new vogue in knitting. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs, Knitwear in Fashion shows off the best in international knitwork. An extensive reference section covers the technology of knitting, developments in design, and new fibers, and includes a glossary of technical terms and biographies of designers. This book is essential for anybody concerned with textiles, fashion, or contemporary design. 300 photographs and illustrations, 285 in color.Author Biography: Sandy Black is a Lecturer at |