British Dance Legacies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Dance Legacies write by National Resource Centre for Dance. This book was released on 2010. British Dance Legacies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dance Legacies of Scotland
Dance Legacies of Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dance Legacies of Scotland write by Mats Melin. This book was released on 2020-12-30. Dance Legacies of Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices. Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the practice was, giving some glimpses of what it looked and sounded like. The authors also explain what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from Scottish dancing practices. Their research draws together fieldwork, references from historical sources in English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic, and insights drawn from the authors’ practical knowledge of dances. They portray the complex network of dance dialects that existed in parallel across Scotland, and share how remnants of this vibrant tradition have endured in Scotland and the Scottish diaspora to the present day. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Dance and Music and its relationship to the history and culture of Scotland.
Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey
Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey write by Lesley Main. This book was released on 2012-06-04. Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey looks inside four of Doris Humphrey’s major choreographic works—Water Study (1928), The Shakers (1931), With My Red Fires (1936), and Passacaglia (1938)—with an eye to how directorial strategies applied in recent contemporized stagings in the United States and Europe could work across the modern and contemporary dance genre. Author Lesley Main, a seasoned practitioner of Doris Humphrey choreography, stresses to the reader the need to balance respect for classical works from the modern dance repertory with the necessity for fresh directorial strategies, to balance between traditional practices and a creative role for the reconstructor. Drawing upon her own dance experience, Main’s book addresses an area of dance research and practice that is becoming increasingly pertinent as the dancer-choreographers of the 20th century modern and contemporary dance are no longer alive to attend to the re-stagings of the body of their works. Insightful and thought-provoking, Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey calls for the creation of new forms of directorial practice in dance beyond reconstruction. The radical new practices it proposes to replace the old are sure to spark debate and fresh thinking across the dance field.
British Dance: Black Routes
British Dance: Black Routes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Dance: Black Routes write by Christy Adair. This book was released on 2016-10-04. British Dance: Black Routes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. British Dance, Black Routes is an outstanding collection of writings which re-reads the achievements of Black British dance artists, and places them within a broad historical, cultural and artistic context. Until now discussion of choreography by Black dance practitioners has been dominated by the work of African-American artists, facilitated by the civil rights movement. But the work produced by Black British artists has in part been within the context of Britain’s colonial legacy. Ramsay Burt and Christy Adair bring together an array of leading scholars and practitioners to review the singularity and distinctiveness of the work of British-based dancers who are Black and its relation to the specificity of Black British experiences. From sub-Saharan West African and Caribbean dance forms to jazz and hip-hop, British Dance, Black Routes looks afresh at over five decades of artistic production to provide an unparalleled resource for dance students and scholars. Appendix 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Yes? No! Maybe...
Yes? No! Maybe... - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yes? No! Maybe... write by Emilyn Claid. This book was released on 2006-09-27. Yes? No! Maybe... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covering fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, Yes? No! Maybe is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance. Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic theory and historical narrative to create a dynamic approach to dance writing. Using the 1970s revolution of new dance as a hinge, Claid looks back to ballet and forward to British independent dance which is new dance’s legacy. She explores the shifts in performer-spectator relationships, and investigates questions of subjectivity, absence and presence, identity, gender, race and desire using psychoanalytical, feminist, postmodern, post-structuralist and queer theoretical perspectives. Artists and practitioners, professional performers, teachers, choreographers and theatre-goers will all find this book an informative and insightful read.
