Harry Houdini Jazz Coloring Book (Harry Houdini Coloring Books, #0)
by Andrea Jensen
Aimed at the interested amateur and professional as well as at workshop leaders, teachers and dancers, this book documents dance creation and jazz dance training according to the method of the renowned Swiss choreographer, Alain Bernard. It contains a short summary of the evolution of jazz dance from its roots in folklore to its modern status as a style of performance dance. In addition, the book provides descriptions of the anatomical functional basics for modern dance training and a comprehens...
Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic experience, Roses-Thema connects somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices detailing the...
Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances. Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow, and improvised dance movement, it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms, such as painting, film, and dance pieces from Loie Fuller, the Russell Maliphant Dance Company, Elevenplay, Pi...
Milestones in Dance in the USA (Milestones)
Embracing dramatic similarities, glaring disjunctions, and striking innovations, this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America. Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, it traces dance in the USA as it broke traditional forms, crossed genres, provoked social and political change, and drove cultural exchange and collision. The authors put a particular focus on those whose voices have been silenced, unacknowledged, and/or u...
Rooted Jazz Dance
