Yes? No! Maybe…: Seductive Ambiguity in Dance by Emilyn Claid

Yes? No! Maybe…: Seductive Ambiguity in Dance

Masking fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to cutting edge modern practitioners resembling Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, definite? No! perhaps is an cutting edge method of appearing and looking at dance. Emilyn Claid brings her lifestyles event and interweaves it with educational idea and historic narrative to create a dynamic method of dance writing.

Raising Dust: A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine

Dance in Palestine has a heritage as advanced and contentious because the land itself. pushed aside as bacchantic insanity through Bible travelers within the nineteenth Century, revived and glorified via Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists within the twentieth Century, and rejected by means of Islamic Reformists within the twenty first Century dance in Palestine has a wealthy and elusive tale that continues to be to be informed.

Merce Cunningham: Creative Elements: 4 (Choreography and Dance Studies Series)

Merce Cunningham reached the age of seventy five in 1994, an age at which many inventive artists are content material to leisure on their laurels, or not less than to go away at the back of no matter what controversies they could have prompted in the course of their careers. No so Cunningham. within the first position, his 70s were a time of severe creativity within which he has choreographed as many as 4 new works a yr.

Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion (New World Choreographies)

This booklet renews puzzling over the relocating physique by means of drawing on dance perform and function from internationally. Eighteen the world over known students express how dance can problem our concepts and emotions approximately our personal and different cultures, our feelings and prejudices, and our experience of private and non-private area.