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31. Anarchic Dance

    Edited by Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie

    Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humour. Anarchic Dance, consisting of a book and...

    Published January 30th 2006 by Routledge
32. Exhausting Dance

    Performance and the Politics of Movement

    By Andre Lepecki

    The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US. Through their vivid...

    Published December 11th 2005 by Routledge
33. Finding Balance

    Fitness, Training, and Health for a Lifetime in Dance, 2nd Edition

    By Gigi Berardi

    Finding Balance: Fitness, Health, and Training for a Lifetime in Dance gives an overview of issues faced by all performing dancers: injury and treatment; technique and training; fitness; nutrition and diet; and career management. The text includes both easy-to-read overviews of each topic and...

    Published December 5th 2004 by Routledge
34. Ballet Beyond Tradition

    By Anna Paskevska

    For nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths. Modern practitioners felt ballet was artificial and injurious to the body; ballet teachers felt that modern dancers lacked the rigorous discipline and control that comes only from years of progressive...

    Published October 25th 2004 by Routledge
35. The Lure of Perfection

    Fashion and Ballet, 1780-1830

    By Judith Bennahum

    THE LURE OF PERFECTION: FASHION AND BALLET, 1780-1830 offers a unique look at how ballet influenced contemporary fashion and women's body image, and how street fashions in turn were reflected by the costumes worn by ballet dancers. Through years of research, the author has traced the interplay...

    Published October 17th 2004 by Routledge
36. Anna Halprin

    By Libby Worth, Helen Poynor

    Series: Routledge Performance Practitioners

    This guidebook traces the life's work of radical dance-maker Anna Halprin, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form. Tracing the evolution of the San Francisco Dancers...

    Published September 30th 2004 by Routledge
37. Rethinking Dance History

    A Reader

    By Alexandra Carter

    By taking a fresh approach to the study of history in general, Alexandra Carter's Rethinking Dance History offers new perspectives on important periods in dance history and seeks to address some of the gaps and silences left within that history. Encompassing ballet, South Asian, modern dance forms...

    Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge
38. Merce Cunningham

    The Modernizing of Modern Dance

    By Roger Copeland

    Published December 15th 2003 by Routledge
39. Dancing Female

    Edited by Sharon E. Friedler, Susan B. Glazer

    Series: Choreography and Dance Studies Series

    First published in 1997...

    Published August 28th 2003 by Routledge
40. Performance Research V8 Issue

    Published July 16th 2003 by Routledge