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Jazz Dance Class - Beginning Thru Advanced
An illustrated guide for the student and teacher of jazz dance. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels cover warm-ups, barre work, lunges, hinges, leaps, turns, and jazz combinations More than 500…
Musical Theatre - A History
A new revised edition of the seminal text celebrating Musical Theatre from ancient times to the present day As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, author John Kenrick…
Prime Movers - The Makers of Modern Dance in America (Second Edition)
This revised edition updates the popular first edition. It is about geniuses who created a new dance form - American modern dance. While as different from each other in style, background, and influence…
Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique
A highly detailed book on the master's technique, written by a leading teacher at the School of American Ballet who is also one of Balanchine's former principal dancers Illustrated with over 700 photographs.…
Tapworks - A Tap Dictionary and Reference Manual
As the official reference manual of the Dance Masters of America, this tap dance resource contains over 1,500 up-to-date entries about every facet of this uniquely American art form It provides a history…
The Dancer and the Dance
From his debut in the Martha Graham Dance Troupe in the Thirties through to founding his own compnay, Merce Cunningham has worked towards establishing the purity of dance and its relationship with movement,…
The Intimate Act of Choreography
A comprehensive and practical guide to learning the art of choreography, from the most fundamental techniques to highly sophisticated artistic concerns
Vision of Modern Dance
Selected writing by 33 important American modern dancers, from Isadora Duncan through Martha Graham to Trischa Brown. The moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists…
Vision of Modern Dance - New Edition
Selected writing by 33 important American modern dancers, from Isadora Duncan through Martha Graham to Trischa Brown. The moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists…
Waltzing in the Dark - African American vaudeville and race politics in the swing era
This unique study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African American performers working from the late 1920s to the late 1940s The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team…