Theatre & Performing Arts
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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 -
Mirrors and Scrims [Paperback]
Marcia B. Siegel (Author)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819569264
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
In this stunning new collection of reviews and essays, dance critic Marcia B. Siegel grapples with the floating identity of ballet, as well as particular ballets, and with the expanding environment of spectacle in which ballet competes for an audi... .... Learn More -
Movable Pillars [Paperback]
Katja Kolcio (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780819569110
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Movable Pillars traces the development of dance as scholarly inquiry over the course of the 20th century, and describes the social-political factors that facilitated a surge of interest in dance research in the period following World War II. This ... .... Learn More -
The Dancer Within [Hardback]
Aron Hirt-Manheimer (Editor); Rose Eichenbaum (Author)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819568809
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
The Dancer Within is a collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and entertainers, many of them world-famous. Well-known on the concert stage, on Broadway, in Hollywood musicals, and ... .... Learn More -
Traces of Light [Hardback]
Ann Cooper Albright (Author)
£55.50ISBN: 9780819568427
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
One of the most famous dancers of the early 1900s, Loïe Fuller created an extraordinary sensation in Paris with her manipulations of hundreds of yards of silk, swirling high above her and lit dramatically from below. Her work inspired artists such... .... Learn More -
Traces of Light [Paperback]
Ann Cooper Albright (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819568434
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
One of the most famous dancers of the early 1900s, Loïe Fuller created an extraordinary sensation in Paris with her manipulations of hundreds of yards of silk, swirling high above her and lit dramatically from below. Her work inspired artists such... .... Learn More -
The Returns of Alwin Nikolais [Paperback]
Claudia Gitelman (Editor); Randy Martin (Editor)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819565761
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
A groundbreaking choreographer, lighting designer, composer, and costumer, Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most innovative artists. Incorporating novel technological and performance tactics, he invented a... .... Learn More -
At Home in the World [Paperback]
Janet O'Shea (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780819568373
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
One of the most popular and widely performed dance styles in India and around the world, bharata natyam has made the transition from its beginnings in the temples and courts of southern India to a highly respected international phenomenon. In this... .... Learn More -
Glamour Addiction [Hardback]
Juliet McMains (Author)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819567741
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
In the wake of the blockbuster television success of "Dancing with the Stars," competitive ballroom dance has become a subject of new fascination-and renewed scrutiny. Known by its practitioners as DanceSport, ballroom is a significant dance form ... .... Learn More
