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Paperback. Presents an illustrated reference to various aspects of jazz dance by one of the art's most respected teachers. Series: A dance horizons book. Num Pages: 209 pages, b&w illus. BIC Classification: ASD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 173 x 16. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton Book Company United States
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871271822
- ISBN
- 9780871271822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.00
€ 39.00
Hardcover. In the beginning of the 21st century, European theatre-makers have sought to consider the disastrous events of the 20th century as the unfinished business of the contemporary. In this book, Kear argues that by thinking through the logic of the event, contemporary performance offers an affective interrogation of 'the event' of the European century. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; AN; AS; DSG; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008083
- ISBN
- 9780230008083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANF; AS; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113312
- ISBN
- 9780230113312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.06€ 84.43
€ 101.06
€ 84.43
Paperback. Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASDL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114098
- ISBN
- 9780230114098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.55€ 55.66
€ 62.55
€ 55.66
Hardcover. The first full-length study of comedy on the burlesque stage, this book takes the reader inside the burlesque houses of the 1930s, looks at the role comedy played in an entertainment form known mostly for striptease, and explores how these sketch performers approached their craft. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZB; ASZH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116795
- ISBN
- 9780230116795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 48.01
€ 52.93
€ 48.01
Hardcover. The highly performative categories of 'Irish culture' and 'Irishness' are in need of critical address, prompted by recent changes in Irish society, the arts industry and modes of critical inquiry. This book broaches this task by considering Irish expressive culture through some of the paradigms and vocabularies offered by performance studies. Num Pages: 269 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZP; AVGH; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219984
- ISBN
- 9780230219984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism's encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalism became a means of intercultural communication and cultural diplomacy. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMN; AN; ASD; ASZM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498. Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905-1952. Series: Studies in International Performance. 304 pages, 0, 18 black & white halftones. A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism's encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalism became a means of intercultural communication and cultural diplomacy. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FMN; AN; ASD; ASZM. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 23. Weight: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224629
- ISBN
- 9780230224629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.57
€ 128.57
Paperback. This book, now available in paperback, contains readings of international postmodern dances, exploring the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity and reading dances 'against the grain' to reveal their potential for troubling conventional notions of subjectivity associated with a white, Western, heterosexual, able-bodied, male norm. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFC; JHBA; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229792
- ISBN
- 9780230229792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Paperback. This ground-breaking study of cross-cultural theatre in the Australasian region focuses on theatrical events and practices in avant-garde and mainstream contexts. It explores the cultural and political dimensions of Australia's engagement with Asia and sheds light on international arts marketing and trends in cross-cultural performance training. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MB; AN; ASZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230234024
- ISBN
- 9780230234024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Hardcover. Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization. Building on her previous work, this new book focuses on various forms of Chinese 'opera' in locations around the Pacific Rim, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and California. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AN; ASD; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230245655
- ISBN
- 9780230245655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardcover. With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230245938
- ISBN
- 9780230245938
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres. It challenges existing cultural norms which equate ageing with bodily decline and draws on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to explore alternatives for developing a culturally valued mature subjectivity through the practice of dance. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230276406
- ISBN
- 9780230276406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardcover. Based on new archival research, this book uniquely presents a fresh interrogation of how, among London's fashionable society, dancing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was variously a means of social modelling, change, conformity and creative individual expression. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; ASD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277144
- ISBN
- 9780230277144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.19
€ 128.19
The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: Performance Traditions o...
Amine, Khalid, Carlson, Marvin
Hardcover. Modern international studies of world theatre and drama have begun to acknowledge the Arab world only after the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Arab world, the contributions of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to modern drama and to post-colonial expression remain especially neglected, a problem that this book addresses. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 1HBM; 1HBT; AN; ASZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278745
- ISBN
- 9780230278745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances to explore the making of urban counter-sites through theatricality and utopian performatives. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230292666
- ISBN
- 9780230292666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468. Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. 296 pages, 25 black & white halftones. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298279
- ISBN
- 9780230298279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.75
€ 67.75
Paperback. Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? This book, now in paperback, queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Orr, Shelley; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300491
- ISBN
- 9780230300491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Paperback. Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption and vernaculars connecting individuals with little in common. Examining performance and the construction of culturally diverse communities, this book, now in paperback with a new preface, suggests that amateur and concert dance can teach us how to live and work together. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASDT; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302334
- ISBN
- 9780230302334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews discuss dances often with visual art, theatre, film and music, drawing on continental philosophy to explore notions of space, time, identity, sensation, memory and ethics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ASD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535640
- ISBN
- 9780230535640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about the relationship between realism and affect. Series: Re-Enactment History. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; HBAH; HBG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576124
- ISBN
- 9780230576124
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.89
€ 160.89