Theatre & Performing Arts
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Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art (1962–1987) [Hardback]
Susan Rosenberg (Author)
£81.50ISBN: 9780819576613
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Trisha Brown re-shaped the landscape of modern dance with her game-changing and boundary-defying choreography and visual art. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws on Brown’s archives, as well as interviews with Brown and her colleagues, to track Br... .... Learn More -
The Call of the Free: An adaptation of Riḍā al-Khafājī’s Ṣawt al-Ḥurr al-Riyāḥi [Hardback]
Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi (Author)
£14.00ISBN: 9780993588419
Published by : The Shīah Institute Press
Series: The ʿĀshūrāʾ Literature Series
The Call of the Free portrays the events leading up to the massacre of al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī, his family, and his companions at Karbala on the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ in 61 AH/680 CE, as seen through the eyes of al-Ḥurr al-Riyāḥī, a man caught between his dut... .... Learn More -
Calderón: Three Comedies by Pedro Calderón de la Barca [Paperback]
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Author); Kenneth Muir (Author); Ann L. Mackenzie (Author)
£34.00ISBN: 9780813160252
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
This volume is a sequel to Four Comedies of Calderón (1980), which was hailed by reviewers as superb, faithful, and actable. The three comedies in the present volume are generally counted among Calderón's masterpieces: Casa con dos puertas mala ... .... Learn More -
Hiking the Horizontal [Paperback]
Liz Lerman (Author)
£18.95ISBN: 9780819574367
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehi... .... Learn More -
The Place of Dance [Paperback]
Andrea Olsen (Author); Caryn McHose (Other)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819574053
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing is our nature, available to all as well as refined for the stage. Andrea Olsen is an internationally known choreographer and educator who combi... .... Learn More -
Engaging Bodies [Hardback]
Ann Cooper Albright (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780819574107
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
For twenty-five years, Ann Cooper Albright has been exploring the intersection of cultural representation and somatic identity in dance. For Albright, dancing is a physical inquiry, a way of experiencing and participating in the ... .... Learn More -
Engaging Bodies [Paperback]
Ann Cooper Albright (Author)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819574114
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
For twenty-five years, Ann Cooper Albright has been exploring the intersection of cultural representation and somatic identity in dance. For Albright, dancing is a physical inquiry, a way of experiencing and participating in the world, and her wr... .... Learn More -
Through the Eyes of a Dancer: Selected Writings [Hardback]
Wendy Perron (Author)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819574077
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Through the Eyes of a Dancer compiles the writings of noted dance critic and editor Wendy Perron. In pieces for The SoHo Weekly News, Village Voice, The New York Times, and Dance Magazine, Perron limns the larger aesthetic and theoretical shifts i... .... Learn More -
Carmen, a Gypsy Geography [Hardback]
Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum (Author)
£33.50ISBN: 9780819573537
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
The figure of Carmen has emerged as a cipher for the unfettered female artist. Dance historian and performance theorist Ninotchka Bennahum shows us Carmen as embodied historical archive, a figure through which we come to understand the promises an... .... Learn More -
How To Do Things with Dance [Paperback]
Rebekah J. Kowal (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819568984
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
In postwar America, any assertion of difference from the mainstream anticommunist culture carried professional and personal risks. For this reason, modern dance artists left much of what they thought unsaid. Instead they expressed themselves in mo... .... Learn More
