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CHOREOGRAPHER'S HANDBOOK

Author : Jonathan Burrows
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113697458X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book CHOREOGRAPHER'S HANDBOOK written by Jonathan Burrows and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking" On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis" A Choreographer’s Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher Jonathan Burrows explains how it’s possible to navigate a course through this complex process. It is a stunning reflection on a personal practice and professional journey, and draws upon five years’ of workshop discussions, led by Burrows. Burrows’ open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of exercises, meditations, principles and ideas on choreography that allow artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process. It is a book for anyone interested in making performance, at whatever level and in whichever style.

Choreographing Asian America

Author : Yutian Wong
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819571083
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Choreographing Asian America written by Yutian Wong and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poised at the intersection of Asian American studies and dance studies, Choreographing Asian America is the first book-length examination of the role of Orientalist discourse in shaping Asian Americanist entanglements with U.S. modern dance history. Moving beyond the acknowledgement that modern dance has its roots in Orientalist appropriation, Yutian Wong considers the effect that invisible Orientalism has on the reception of work by Asian American choreographers and the conceptualization of Asian American performance as a category. Drawing on ethnographic and choreographic research methods, the author follows the work of Club O’ Noodles—a Vietnamese American performance ensemble—to understand how Asian American artists respond to competing narratives of representation, aesthetics, and social activism that often frame the production of Asian American performance.

Stage Directors Handbook

Author : Sarah Hart
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559362733
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Stage Directors Handbook written by Sarah Hart and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only sourcebook for theatre directors and choreographers.

The Dance Handbook

Author : Allen Robertson
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780816118298
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Dance Handbook written by Allen Robertson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988 by Longman (UK), the Handbook moves chronologically through the milestones of the dance world, focusing on 200 major dancers, dance companies, and choreographers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Choreography

Author : Kate Flatt
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785006126
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Choreography written by Kate Flatt and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choreography is the highly creative process of interpreting and coordinating movement, music and space in performance. By tracing different facets of development and exploring the essential artistic and practical skills of the choreographer, this book offers unique insights for apprentice dance makers. With key concepts and ideas expressed through an accessible writing style, the creative tasks and frameworks offered will develop new curiosity, understanding, skill and confidence. The chapters cover the key areas of engagement including what is a choreographer; getting started; improvisation and ideas; context, stage geometry and atmosphere; movement as dance in time and space; solo, duet, trio and group choreography and finally, structure and the 'choreographic eye'. This is an ideal companion for dancers and dance students wanting to express their ideas through choreography and develop their skills to effectively articulate them in performance. It is superbly illustrated with 143 practical colour and black & white photographs and diagrams. Kate Flatt has over forty years' experience as a choreographer, mentor and teacher.

The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance

Author : Vida L. Midgelow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190925604
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance by : Vida L. Midgelow

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance written by Vida L. Midgelow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its own right. And while it has long been practiced, it is only within the last twenty years that dance improvisation has become a topic of critical inquiry. With The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, dancer, teacher, and editor Vida L. Midgelow provides a cutting-edge volume on dance improvisation in all its facets. Expanding beyond conventional dance frameworks, this handbook looks at the ways that dance improvisation practices reflect our ability to adapt, communicate, and respond to our environment. Throughout the handbook, case studies from a variety of disciplines showcase the role of individual agency and collective relationships in improvisation, not just to dancers but to people of all backgrounds and abilities. In doing so, chapters celebrate all forms of improvisation, and unravel the ways that this kind of movement informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions, lived experience, cognition, and technologies.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occupational Outlook Handbook written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet

Author : Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190871490
Total Pages : 1013 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet written by Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nearly four hundred and fifty years in, ballet still resonates-though the stages have become international, and the dancers, athletes far removed from noble amateurs. While vibrations from the form's beginnings clearly resound, much has transformed. Nowadays ballet dancers aspire to work across disciplines with choreographers who value a myriad of abilities. Dance theorists and historians make known possibilities and polemics in lieu of notating dances verbatim, and critics do the daily work of recording performance histories and interviewing artists. Ideas circulate, questions arise, and discussions about how to resist ballet's outmoded traditions take precedence. In the dance community, calls for innovation have defined palpable shifts in ballet's direction and resultantly we have arrived at a new moment in its history that is unquestionably recognized as a genre onto its own: Contemporary Ballet. An aspect of this recent discipline is that its dancemakers, more often than not, seek to reorient the viewer by celebrating what could be deemed vulnerabilities, re-construing ideals of perfection, problematizing the marginalized/mainstream dichotomy, bringing audiences closer in to observe, and letting the art become an experience rather than a distant object preciously guarded out of reach. Hence, the practice of ballet is moving to become a less-mediated and more active process in many circumstances. Performers and audiences alike are challenged, and while convention is still omnipresent, choices are being made. For some, this approach has been drawn on for decades, and for others it signifies a changing of the guard, yet however we arrive there, the conclusion is the same: Contemporary Ballet is not a style. That is to say, it is not a trend, phase, or fashionable term that will fade, rather it is a clear period in ballet's time deserved of investigation. And it is into this moment that we enter"--

A Handbook for Choreography

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951563106
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for Choreography written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Staging Musical Theatre

Author : Elaine Adams Novak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Staging Musical Theatre written by Elaine Adams Novak and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes production time lines, the duties of key people, information about notable musicals, a list of best musical numbers, suggestions for sets, costumes, and instrumentation, and more.

The Dance

Author : Joan Cass
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786422319
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Dance written by Joan Cass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-12-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In dance, the choreographer creates, the dancer performs and the viewer observes. This work is a handbook for the viewer. By presenting historical and artistic perspectives of dance, dance events are made more approachable and appreciation for the art form is heightened. The choreographic components of body language, content, structure, music, design and interpretation are included. Also discussed is the development of critical reaction over time. Examples are drawn from Western theatrical dance and worldwide cultural variations. Terms are explained throughout the text, and an extensive bibliography gives sources in print and on tape for further study. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Ballet Music

Author : Matthew Naughtin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081088660X
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Ballet Music written by Matthew Naughtin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musicians who work professionally with ballet and dance companies sometimes wonder if they haven’t entered a foreign country—a place where the language and customs seem so utterly familiar and so bafflingly strange at the same. To someone without a dance background, phrases and terms--boy’s variation, pas d’action, apothéose—simply don’t fit their standard musical vocabulary. Even a familiar term like adagio means something quite different in the world of dance. Like any working professional, those conductors, composers, rehearsal pianists, instrumentalists and even music librarians working with professional ballet and dance companies must learn what dance professionals talk about when they talk about music. In Ballet Music: A Handbook Matthew Naughtin provides a practical guide for the professional musician who works with ballet companies, whether as a full-time staff member or as an independent contractor. In this comprehensive work, he addresses the daily routine of the modern ballet company, outlines the respective roles of the conductor, company pianist and music librarian and their necessary collaboration with choreographers and ballet masters, and examines the complete process of putting a dance performance on stage, from selection or existing music to commissioning original scores to staging the final production. Because ballet companies routinely revise the great ballets to fit the needs of their staff and stage, audience and orchestra, ballet repertoire is a tangled web for the uninitiated. At the core of Ballet Music: A Handbook lies an extensive listing of classic ballets in the standard repertoire, with information on their history, versions, revisions, instrumentation, score publishers and other sources for tracking down both the original music and subsequent musical additions and adaptations. Ballet Music: A Handbook is an invaluable resource for conductors, pianists and music librarians as well as any student, scholar or fan of the ballet interested in the complex machinery that works backstage before the curtain goes up.

You, the Choreographer

Author : Vladimir Angelov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000782441
Total Pages : 901 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book You, the Choreographer written by Vladimir Angelov and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU, THE CHOREOGRAPHER, Creating and Crafting Dance offers a synthesis of histories, theories, philosophies, and creative practices across diverse genres of concert dance choreography. The book is designed for readers at every stage of creative development who seek to refine their artistic sensibility. Through a review of major milestones in the field, including contributions to choreography from the humanities, arts, and modern sciences, readers will gain new perspectives on the historical development of choreography. Concise analyses of traditional fundamentals and innovative practices of dance construction, artistic research methods, and approaches to artistic collaboration offer readers new tools to build creative habits and expand their choreographic proficiencies. For learners and educators, this is a textbook. For emerging professionals, it is a professional-development tool. For established professionals, it is a companion handbook that reinvigorates inspiration. To all readers it offers a cumulative, systematic understanding of the art of dance making, with a wealth of cross-disciplinary references to create a dynamic map of creative practices in choreography.

Dance and Light

Author : Kevin Dreyer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000649857
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Dance and Light written by Kevin Dreyer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance and Light examines the interconnected relationship between movement and design, the fluid partnership that exists between the two disciplines, and the approaches that designers can take to enhance dance performances through lighting design. The book demystifies lighting for the dancer and helps designers understand how the dancer/choreographer thinks about their art form, providing insight into the choreographer’s process and exploring how designers can make the most of their resources. The author shares anecdotes and ideas from an almost 50-year career as a lighting designer, along with practical examples and insights from colleagues, and stresses the importance of clear communication between designers, choreographers, and dancers. Attention is also given to the choreographer who wants to learn what light can do to help enhance their work on stage. Written in short, stand-alone chapters that allow readers to quickly navigate to areas of interest, Dance and Light is a valuable resource for lighting design classes wishing to add a section on dance lighting, as well as for choreography classes who want to better equip young artists for a significant collaborative partnership.

The Dance Handbook

Author : Allen Robertson
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Dance Handbook written by Allen Robertson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988 by Longman (UK), the Handbook moves chronologically through the milestones of the dance world, focusing on 200 major dancers, dance companies, and choreographers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Choreographing Copyright

Author : Anthea Kraut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199360375
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Choreographing Copyright written by Anthea Kraut and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But the book also uncovers a host of marginalized figures - from the South Asian dancer Mohammed Ismail, to the African American pantomimist Johnny Hudgins, to the African American blues singer Alberta Hunter, to the white burlesque dancer Faith Dane - who were equally interested in positioning themselves as subjects rather than objects of property, as possessive individuals rather than exchangeable commodities. Choreographic copyright, the book argues, has been a site for the reinforcement of gendered white privilege as well as for challenges to it.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199314209
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment written by Mark Franko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from differences between reenactment and the more established practice of historical reconstruction, leading practitioners and theorists ask how the notion of preservation and representation associated with reconstruction is transformed by reenactment into historical experience and affective relation to the past in the present. In other terms: How does dance convey historical meaning through sensuous form? Danced reenactment poses the problem of history and historicity in relation to the troubled temporality inherent to dance itself. Ephemerality as the central trope of dance is hence displaced in favor of dance as a reiterative practice that confounds categories of chronological time and opens up a theoretical space of history that is often invisibilized by ideologies of immediacy traditionally attributed to dancing.