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Author:Susan Leigh Foster
Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance
"This is an urgently needed book - as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan Foster writes a thoroughly compelling argument." - André Lepecki, New York University "May well prove to be one of...- $74.95
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Choreographing History
". . . I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body." --Dance Research...- $24.00
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Choreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire
"Undoubtedly, Choreography and Narrative is an important contribution to dance history research." --Nineteenth-Century French Studies"This work is a landmark in the field and belongs in all libraries serving undergraduate, graduate, and faculty researchers in dance." --Choice"Invents a new method for writing the history of...- $28.00
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Dances That Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull
An inquiry into improvisation as practiced by Richard Bull and his contemporaries.During an improvised performance, both dancers and audience members reflect on how the dance is being made. They ask themselves: What will happen next? What choices will each dancer make? And how will...- $28.95
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Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance
Winner of the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize Recent approaches to dance composition, seen in the works of Merce Cunningham and the Judson Church performances of the early 1960s, suggest the possibility for a new theory of choreographic meaning. Borrowing from...- $33.95
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Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion
Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one...- $46.99
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