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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£15.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780300204520 | ISBN 10: 0300204523
A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers. “[A] smart, bracing book of reflection, analysis, memoir and history.”—Willard Spiegelman, Wall Str ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781780724119 | ISBN 10: 178072411x
Humans are born to dance. And in today's sedentary world, we would all benefit from doing more of it. Science shows that just ten minutes of dancing provides a thorough work out for the body and brain, raising the heartbeat to cause a release of feel ... more
View book details£12.99 book with CD (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781782858621 | ISBN 10: 1782858628
This gorgeous, global collection of 8 tales will enchant young dancers, introducing them to waltz, Noh dancing, limbo, flamenco, polka, belly dancing, Scottish reels and Malian dance through the stories. Eight pages of illustrated endnotes explain ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846686191 | ISBN 10: 1846686199
The first major biography for forty years tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, Nijinsky - now in paperback. 'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the bea ... more
View book details£11.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781452128337 | ISBN 10: 1452128332
The cult classic is back! This petite 15th anniversary hardcover reissue keeps all the original mystery and magic of cat dancing delightfully intact. Perpetually ahead of its time, Dancing with Cats presents scores of delightful and inspiri ... more
View book details£19.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780300187939 | ISBN 10: 0300187939
Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an in ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849833448 | ISBN 10: 1849833443
Born in 1979, Roxy Freeman grew up travelling around Ireland and England in a traditional horse-drawn wagon with her mother and father and six siblings. Life was harsh but it was a childhood of freedom spent in harmony with nature. Roxy didn't know h ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849164078 | ISBN 10: 184916407x
Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When he serenades her on the eve of the ceremony, Natalia's father unw ... more
View book details£31.50 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845119430 | ISBN 10: 1845119436
Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Whether dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Ce ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141040226 | ISBN 10: 014104022x
Raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his family and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. Until, that is, Madame Mao's cultural delegates came in se ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781858563800 | ISBN 10: 1858563801
This remarkable book is the first to focus on disability arts. Drawn from over 50 of the authors speeches, it eschews the historical charity based, patrician assumptions about disabled people and the barriers and prejudices that have kept them invis ... more
View book details£27.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415972802 | ISBN 10: 0415972809
Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legen ... more
View book details£15.50 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780717129492 | ISBN 10: 0717129497
In Sweat your Prayers, internationally acclaimed movement and theatre artist, author and music producer Gabrielle Roth brings to us the ground-breaking insights of her lifetime of teaching personal and spiritual development. Her cutting-edge wo ... more
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