Category - Performing Arts
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Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence, and permeating popular cult...
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Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African Ameri...
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Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, ...
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Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudevi...
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Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Fifty Contemporary Choreographers is a unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers; this...
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Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow
PaperbackOriginal price $47.99 - Original price $47.99Original price $47.99$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American mod...
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The Intimate Act Of Choreography
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /A comprehensive book that covers all aspects of choreography from the most fundamental techniques to highly sophisticated artistic concerns. The...
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Ida Rubinstein: Revolutionary Dancer, Actress, and Impresario
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.Product D...
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The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /Engaging with a broad range of research and performance genres, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers the most comprehensive research...
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Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20th...
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Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) created works that thrilled...
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Dancing Mestizo Modernisms: Choreographing Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This book analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico's cultural politics and notions of the nation at differe...
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Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20...
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Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Dancers train for long hours to condition the body to perform stunning acts of artistry through movement expression. Daily tasks outside of dance ...
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Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding ch...
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Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /At the New School for Social Research in 1931, the dance critic for the New York Times announced the arrival of modern dance, touting the “seriou...
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Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A major biography--the first in three decades--of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer...
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