Category: Dance

À dix-sept ans, Suzanne Oussov quitte sa famille pour suivre des études de danse classique en Union soviétique. Rue Rossi, à l'école du Kirov, elle apprend pendant six ans l. a. method, l. a. rigueur et l. a. strength de l. a. méthode Vaganova. Mariée à un Soviétique, elle va connaître le quotidien de l'URSS des années soixante : appartement communautaire, pénurie de denrées alimentaires... Plus tard, elle s'oriente vers l'enseignement. Elle nous fait partager dans ce livre son parcours riche et mouvementé.

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Este libro penetra con intensidad y claridad sobre seis elementos fundamentales del tango: los angeles postura, l. a. forma del abrazo, l. a. conexión entre los companion, l. a. conducción y el seguimiento, l. a. improvisación y l. a. relación con l. a. música. Estos ingredientes que hacen que bailar el tango sea diferente a otros bailes.
Se encontrarán claves útiles para los bailarines y bailarinas de cualquier nivel: los que se inician en el tango y aquellos que ya bailan de hace tiempo. Se explora este baile como se practica en l. a. actualidad, profundizando en sus rasgos fundamentales: un baile donde dos cuerpos abrazados improvisan con los pies al compás de l. a. música. Su complejidad y su intimidad serán develadas, con sugerencias para su aprendizaje y consejos para el bailarín y l. a. bailarina. También se ilustra porqué bailar el tango hace bien, cuáles son los elementos terapéuticos del tango y se presenta su historia como baile.

Este libro es el producto de casi veinte años de enseñanza del tango de Lidia Ferrari, quien recomienda “iniciarse y proseguir con los mejores recursos para internarse en ese terreno delicioso del baile del tango que no nos defraudará”.

Cada quien encontrará elementos para comprender mejor el baile del tango y l. a. cultura que le dio origen y lo sigue sustentando. Claves que no se ven en los movies y que no todos los maestros las conocen o las confiesan.

First released in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

discovering stability: health, future health, and coaching for a life-time in Dance offers an summary of matters confronted via all appearing dancers: harm and therapy; strategy and coaching; health; foodstuff and nutrition; and occupation management.  The textual content comprises either easy-to-read overviews of every subject and "profiles" of popular dancers and the way they've got coped with those matters. the recent variation comprises:  Updated and new profiles. elevated harm and harm therapy info. up-to-date dance technology and body structure findings, and new references. up to date nutrition directions, multiplied and up to date "Taking regulate" part. It concludes with a listing of chosen dance/arts medication clinics, a bibliography, word list, and textual content notes.

simply as without doubt as Haiti is "possessed" by way of the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham while she first went there in 1936 to check dance and formality. during this e-book, Dunham unearths how her anthropological study, her paintings in dance, and her fascination for the folk and cults of Haiti labored their spell, catapulting her into studies that she was once frequently fortunate to outlive. right here Dunham tells how the island got here to be possessed through the demons of voodoo and different cults imported from a number of components of Africa, in addition to by way of the deep type divisions, relatively among blacks and mulattos, and the political hatred nonetheless a great deal in proof at the present time. filled with the flare and suspense of immersion in an odd and spell binding tradition, Island Possessed can be a pioneering paintings within the anthropology of dance and a desirable record on Haitian politics and voodoo.

For approximately a century, the educational of ballet and glossy dancers has divergent paths. smooth practitioners felt ballet used to be man made and injurious to the physique; ballet academics felt that glossy dancers lacked the rigorous self-discipline and keep an eye on that comes in simple terms from years of innovative training.

Ballet Beyond Tradition seeks to reconcile those age-old conflicts and produce a brand new wisdom to ballet academics of the significance of a holistic education routine that attracts at the most sensible that sleek dance and movement-studies offers.

Dance construction: layout and Technology introduces you to the talents you must plan, layout, and execute the technical features of a dance construction. whereas it will probably now not appear that staging a dance creation is that various from a play or musical, in fact a dance functionality bargains up detailed intricacies and demanding situations all its personal, from surroundings that contains choreography, to lighting fixtures layout that sculpts the physique, and costumes that supplement circulate. This precise e-book ways the method of staging a dance construction from a balanced point of view, making it a necessary source for dancers and architects alike.

Covering a extensive variety of issues, writer Jeromy Hopgood takes the reader in the course of the technique of generating dance from begin to end – together with pre-production making plans (collaboration, creation strategy, team of workers, functionality spaces), layout disciplines (lighting, sound, surroundings, costumes, projections), degree administration, and extra. Bridging the space among theatrical and dance layout, the ebook features a speedy reference consultant for theatrical and dance terminology, valuable in giving dancers and architects a typical operating vocabulary that may make sure efficient communique around the various fields.

How They turned recognized Dancers: A Dancing heritage for younger readers tells the tale of twelve well-known dancers – six girls and 6 males – from diversified elements of the realm. Spanning the 17th into the twenty-first centuries, each one biographical comic strip is put in the subject’s old and cultural context. Dancers comprise: Louis XIV, John Durang, Marie Taglioni, William Henry ‘Juba’ Lane, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Laban, Doris Humphrey, Michio Ito, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Pearl Primus, Amalia Hernández, and Arthur Mitchell. each one bankruptcy contains “Create a Dance” giving readers the chance to bop themselves in accordance with every one dancer’s style.

Dancefilm: Choreography and the relocating Image examines the choreographic in cinema - the best way choreographic parts tell cinematic operations in dancefilm. It strains the heritage of the shape from a few of its earliest manifestations within the silent movie period, throughout the old avant-garde, musicals and track video clips to modern experimental brief dancefilms. In so doing it additionally examines probably the most major collaborations among dancers, choreographers, and filmmakers.
The booklet additionally units out to envision and reconsider the parameters of dancefilm and thereby re-conceive the relatives among dance and cinema. Dancefilm is known as a modality that demanding situations typical versions of cinematic movement via its relation to the physique, flow and time, instigating new different types of filmic functionality and growing spectatorial reviews which are grounded within the somatic. Drawing on debates in either movie concept (in specific principles of gesture, the pack up, and impact) and dance concept (concepts comparable to radical phraseology, the gestural anacrusis and somatic intelligence) and bringing those fields into discussion, the ebook argues that the mix of dance and movie produces cine-choreographic practices which are particular to the dancefilm shape. The publication hence offers new versions of cinematic flow which are either traditionally proficient and carefully interdisciplinary.

Capoeira, a Brazilian conflict dance and nationwide activity, has develop into well known worldwide. First delivered to Brazil via African slaves and primary documented within the past due eighteenth century, capoeira has gone through many variations because it has subtle all through Brazilian society and past, taking up a multiplicity of meanings if you happen to perform it and for the societies during which it's practiced. during this e-book, Maya Talmon-Chvaicer combines cultural historical past with anthropological study to supply an in-depth research of the advance and which means of capoeira, beginning with the African cultures within which it originated and carrying on with as much as the current day.

Using a wealth of basic resources, Talmon-Chvaicer analyzes the outlooks on lifestyles, symbols, and rituals of the 3 significant cultures that encouraged capoeira—the Congolese (the historical quarter recognized this day as Congo-Angola), the Yoruban, and the Catholic Portuguese cultures. As she strains the evolution of capoeira via successive ancient eras, Talmon-Chvaicer keeps a twin viewpoint, depicting capoeira because it used to be skilled, saw, and understood through either Europeans and Africans, in addition to through their descendants. This twin viewpoint uncovers many covert elements of capoeira which have been repressed via the dominant Brazilian culture.

This wealthy learn reclaims the African origins and meanings of capoeira, whereas additionally acknowledging the numerous ways that Catholic-Christian tradition has contributed to it. The ebook can be attention-grabbing studying not just for students but additionally for capoeira individuals who would possibly not recognize the deeper non secular meanings of the customs, amulets, and rituals of this jogo da vida, "game of life."