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Vilka aktörer har drivit fram DJ-kulturen i framförallt Stockholm, och med vilka visioner, motgångar och ideal? DJ-liv - historien om hur diskjockeyn erövrade Stockholm beskriver dj-kulturens framväxt med fokus på det som har lett fram till dagens...

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I den här boken beskrivs de strikta uppförandekoder som tillämpas på Milongorna i Buenos Aires. De utgör ramen om den tango som i den typiska abrazon, omfamningen, dansas med större hängivenhet, innerlighet och känsla där än i någon annan tangomil...

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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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Tony Irving var tretton år den dagen hans pappa sa att han var tvungen att sluta dansa. Den annorlunda grabben som tyckte om att sy och sticka och som älskade sin dans skulle vara som alla andra, spela fotboll och absolut inte sticka ut. Life, Lov...

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Våren 2007 efterlyste Jamtli, Föreningsarkivet och Länsstyrelsen i Jämtland dansminnen från länet. Drygt 100 bidrag kom in. Fantastiska berättelser om magiska danskvällar, om reglerna på dansbanan, om de som arrangerat och om musikerna som äntrat ...

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Derek Hough, the dashing Emmy Award-winning fan favorite, and only five-time champion of the hit ABC reality show Dancing With the Stars, tells the inspiring story of his life and career, and shares insider tips of how he transforms his celebrity ...

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Derek Hough, the dashing Emmy Award-winning fan favorite, and only five-time champion of the hit ABC reality show Dancing With the Stars, tells the inspiring story of his life and career, and shares insider tips of how he transforms his celebrity ...

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"Sometimes I've taken home the trophy, sometimes I've stumbled or tripped over my own feet. But every move I've made has shaped me into the person I am today." Season after season, millions of fans tune into Dancing with the Stars to wat...

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"Val embodies what it means to live the American dream." - Robin Roberts, Good Morning America Valentin Chmerkovskiy, the world championship-winning and beloved Dancing with the Stars ballroom dancer invites fans into his life as never b...

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"e;Val embodies what it means to live the American dream."e; Robin Roberts, Good Morning AmericaValentin Chmerkovskiy, the world championship-winning and beloved Dancing with the Stars ballroom dancer invites fans into his life as never be...

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Ballroom dancing is back. In universities, town halls, bars, clubs and leisure centres across the UK there are hundreds of thousands of people learning to dance. Strictly Come Dancing attracted millions of viewers and was one of the BBC's most suc...

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Better Late Than Never is the extraordinary true story of how a man born into poverty in London's East End went on to find stardom late in life when he was chosen to be head judge on BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. Len Goodman tells all about his ne...

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This fascinating book explores the rich history of exhibition ballroom dancing from its heyday in the 1910s to the present. Julie Malnig's record of this intimate, theatrical genre of dance features male-female teams--idolized as theatre personali...

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This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the urban phenomenon known as Ballroom culture that first gained notoriety in the documentary Paris Is Burning in 1990. Butch Queens Up in Pumps uniquely explores the ways in which Black LG...

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This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the urban phenomenon known as Ballroom culture that first gained notoriety in the documentary Paris Is Burning in 1990. Butch Queens Up in Pumps uniquely explores the ways in which Black LG...

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This work is designed for anyone who wants to learn how to dance the tango, individually or as a follow-up to a class. This book/DVD package comprehensively teaches how to dance the authentic Argentine tango, as it evolved from the streets of Buen...

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In "Gotta Ballroom Dance", the reader will learn the origins of ballroom dancing and the trends that influenced its evolution. Explore the music and tempos that match the dances covered in this unique instructional book/DVD package, incl...

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In the earliest years of the 20th century, North American ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But then a new dance, the tango, broke onto the scene when Vernon and Irene Castle performed it in a Broadway musical. Rudolph Valentino, Ar...

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In the earliest years of the twentieth century, North American ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But in the 1910s, a new dance, the tango, broke onto the United States scene when Vernon and Irene Castle performed it in a Broadway mu...

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The tango is easily the most iconic dance of the last century, its images as familiar as an old friend. But are they the whole story? Peeling back the poster propaganda that has always characterized the tango publicly, this intimate study shows th...

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Written from the perspective of a practitioner, this book looks at the transformation of ballroom dance into an Olympic sport, and how that transformation is reflective of social, political, and cultural norms and tensions.

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Written from the perspective of a practitioner, this book looks at the transformation of ballroom dance into an Olympic sport, and how that transformation is reflective of social, political, and cultural norms and tensions.

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During the 1800s, dance and etiquette manuals provided ordinary men and women with the keys to becoming gentlemen and ladies--and thus advancing in society. Why dance? To the insecure and status-oriented upper middle class, the ballroom embodied t...

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Click here to listen to Julia Ericksen's interview about Dance with Me on Philadelphia NPR's "Radio Times" Rumba music starts and a floor full of dancers alternate clinging to one another and turning away. Rumba is an erotic dance, and t...

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Click here to listen to Julia Ericksen's interview about Dance with Me on Philadelphia NPR's "e;Radio Times"e; Rumba music starts and a floor full of dancers alternate clinging to one another and turning away. Rumba is an erotic dance, and...

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Malnig examines exhibition ballroom dance as both a theatrical genre and a cultural and social phenomenon, promoting new cultural standards, including the emancipation of women and a new casualness and spontaneity between the sexes. A lively and t...

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Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena: of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender and more. Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cult...

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Now in its tenth edition, this classic and comprehensive handbook has been revised to bring it up to date in keeping with changes on the dance floor and in the rules of dance competitions. The Quickstep, Waltz, Foxtrot, and Tango are all illustrat...

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