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"Denna bok är unik på det sättet att författaren själv var med och bidrog till att dansen nådde en större publik. Vad vore dagens hip hop utan dansarna som faktiskt tog den till Sverige i början av 80-talet? Aktuell även idag som en påminnels...

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»Jag skriver om kärlek, om närvaro och om den danskonst som baseras på en tillit till erfarenheterna som gör oss till kännande och därmed också tänkande människor. Jag dansar mig förbi orden. Jag skriver mig förbi orden.« Kärlekens samtal är en bo...

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»Som nyskapande konstnärer verkar vi i framkanten, eller kanske man borde säga i utkanten, av det så kallade danslivet.« En subjektiv historieskrivning om en vital frilanssektor som etablerat sig utanför konventioner och institutioner.

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Ljusdals folkpark ligger drygt en kilometer fågelvägen sydväst om Ljusdals centrum. Bolaget Bergvik och Ala Nya Aktiebolag skänkte markområdet till Ljusdals municipalsamhälle 1907. Det gör den till en av landets äldsta folkparker. Många anser ocks...

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When Hijikata Tatsumi's "Ankoku Butoh" appeared in 1959, it revolutionized not only Japanese dance but also the concept of performance art worldwide. It has however proved notoriously difficult to define or tie down. Mikami Kayo was a disciple of ...

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Learn how to paint beautiful botanical watercolors using 16 easy-to-follow lessons that also introduce the modern incorporation of gouache and ink! Enjoy hours of creative engagement as you learn how to paint eucalyptus wreaths, shape olive branch...

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Uncover the most mesmerising moments in ballet history with this scintillating visual guide. Written with ballet legend Viviana Durante, this book will introduce you to the most famous performers and enthrall you with fascinating stories. Discover...

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With over one million followers on Instagram, Ballerina Project has the largest network of followers in the world for ballet and has become an online phenomenon. Created by New York City-based photographer Dane Shitagi over the span of eighteen ye...

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A guide to ballroom dancing. It includes all the main ballroom dances, along with versions of most dances approved for championships. There are diagrams showing every step from both the male and female perspective. This tenth edition is revised an...

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The Peppermint Lounge was intended to be nothing more than a front for gambling and other rackets but the club became a sensation after Dick "Cami" Camillucci began to feature a new kind of music, rock and roll. The mobsters running the ...

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This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It's more than a social history: it's a set of interconnected histories of the overlooked places where dancing happens . ....

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Alexei Ratmansky is the most sought-after man in ballet (The New Yorker). A former artistic director at the Bolshoi Ballet and the resident choreographer at American Ballet Theatre, and now the incoming artist in residence at New York City Ballet,...

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A ballerina tells the story of George Balanchine's iconic masterpiece, Serenade, and what it is like to be one the young women who danced it, lived it, during his lifetime. At age seventeen, Toni Bentley was chosen by Balanchine, then in his final...

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Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals? 'Beautiful, difficult, and compelling.' VANITY FAIR 'Dont think, dear,' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being b...

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THE BALLET COMPANION is the first complete, illustrated reference book for the dancer. With more than 150 stunning photographs of ballet greats Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, THE BALLE...

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THE ART OF KATSUHIRO OTOMO   by Jeremy Mark Robinson   <P> This is a book about the genius Japanese artist Katsuhiro Otomo (b. 1954). Best-known for the Akira manga of 1982-90 and the Akira movie of 1988, Otomo is also an all-round...

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The Art of Movement is an exquisitely designed, beautifully produced book that captures the movement, flow, energy, and grace of many of the most accomplished dancers in the world. These are the artists, from all walks of life, who are defining da...

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Every day, in dance studios all across America, millions of little girls line up at the barre and take ballet class. Their time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, the value of their bodies and minds, and thei...

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Most women have no access to the power of their pelvis. The pelvic floor is the often misunderstood and neglected centerpiece of our musculoskeletal system: it is crucial for healthy, elegant movement and for our sensuality. Any numbness and block...

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Representing the first comprehensive analysis of Gaga and Ohad Naharin's aesthetic approach, this book follows the sensual and mental emphases of the movement research practiced by dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company. Considering the body a...

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Janette Manrara is the glamourous big sister we all need in our lives. In her first book Tiny Dancer, BIG World (working title) she shares a delightful blend of advice, inspirational stories and life lessons from her time on stage and screen. Each...

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"I adored this summer novel! My favorite beach reads are written by Meg Mitchell Moore, and Summer Stage is her brand new smash hit. If you like my books, youll love this!" Elin Hilderbrand From the bestselling author of Vacationland, a ...

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The founder of the Dance Psychology Lab reveals the surprising cognitive and emotional benefits of dancing and prescriptive ways to dance oneself happy.

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A once-famous ballerina faces a final choiceto return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away foreverin this incandescent novel of redemption and love On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns t...

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Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance proposes dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theater.

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In Choreographing in Color, J. Lorenzo Perillo draws on nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement to ask: what does it mean for Filipinos to navigate violent forces of empire and neoliberalism with street ...

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Moving Modernism reenacts the simultaneous eruption of three spectacular revolutions: the development of pictorial abstraction, the first modern dance, and the birth of cinema, which together changed the artistic landscape of early-twentieth-centu...

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Dance Theory: Source Readings from Two Millenia of Western Dance revives and reintegrates dance theory as a field of historical dance studies, presenting a coherent reading of the interaction of theory and practice during two millennia of dance hi...

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Based on research in the archives of the Paris Opera, One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet illustrates the full and complex history of performances of the ballet The Source, contextualized by political events, colonial and post-colonial narratives, ...

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From The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas to My One and Only and Grand Hotel, Tommy Tune helped develop and realize some of the most memorable Broadway shows of the late 20th century. Based on access to Tune's inner circle and interviews with Tune ...

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