Theatre & Performing Arts
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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 world, and her wr... .... 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 -
Hiking the Horizontal [Hardback]
Liz Lerman (Author)
£25.95ISBN: 9780819569516
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 -
Modern Gestures [Hardback]
Ann Cooper Albright (Author)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819570772
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
This small and beautifully illustrated book showcases the work of two great American modernists, painter Abraham Walkowitz and dancer Isadora Duncan. Born in the same year (1878), both artists influenced the development of modern art in the early ... .... Learn More -
Choreographing Asian America [Paperback]
Yutian Wong (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819567031
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Poised at the intersection of Asian American studies and dance studies, Choreographing Asian America is the first book-length examination of the role of Orientalist discourse in shaping Asian Americanist entanglements with U.S. modern dance histor... .... Learn More
