Theatre & Performing Arts
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Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka [Paperback]
Ahalya Satkunaratnam (Author)
£16.95ISBN: 9780819578907
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil war (1983–2009). It is the first book of scholarship on bharata natyam (a classical dance originatin... .... Learn More -
Using the Sky: A Dance [Paperback]
Deborah Hay (Author)
£16.95ISBN: 9780819579119
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Deborah Hay is an internationally renowned dance artist whose unique approach to bodily practice has had lasting impact on American choreography. Her commitment to dance as a process is as exquisite as it is provoking. Rooted in NYC’s 1960s experi... .... Learn More -
Drawing the Surface of Dance: A Biography in Charts [Paperback]
Annie-B Parson (Author)
£19.50ISBN: 9780819579065
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Soloing on the page, choreographer Annie-B Parson rethinks choreography as dance on paper. Parson draws her dances into new graphic structures calling attention to the visual facts of the materiality of each dance work she has made. These drawings... .... Learn More -
Nation, Community, Self: Female Voices in Scottish Theatre from the Seventies to the Present [Paperback]
Gioia Angeletti (Editor)
£18.00ISBN: 9788869771347
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
From the late 1960s until the present day, a significant number of women playwrights have emerged in Scottish theatre who have made a pioneering contribution to dramatic innovation and experimentation. Despite the critical reassessment of some of ... .... Learn More -
Jarmila Novotná: My Life in Song [Hardback]
Jarmila Novotná (Author); William V. Madison (Editor); Brian Kellow (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780813176116
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
A legendary beauty, hailed as one of the greatest singing actors of her time, Jarmila Novotná (1907--1994) was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia. Best known for her performances in Der Rosenkavalier, The Marria... .... Learn More -
Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art (1962–1987) [Paperback]
Susan Rosenberg (Author)
£25.95ISBN: 9780819576620
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 -
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 -
Calderón: Three Comedies by Pedro Calderón de la Barca [Paperback]
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Author); Kenneth Muir (Author); Ann L. Mackenzie (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 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 e... .... Learn More
