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Stravinsky Dances
Stephanie Jordan's ground-breaking survey and close examination of a range of Stravinsky dances - some familiar, others less so - sheds new, unexpected light upon a renowned composer of ballet music.This book is essential reading for scholars and students in the fields of dance, music and interdisciplinary studies.
Striding Out
"A serious study of the alternative movement to the Graham-derived tradition of contemporary dance in Britain"--Page 4 of cover.
The Return of the Renegade
A beautiful physical therapist doles out tough love to a beastly aristocratic actor in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Physiotherapist Stephanie McKinley has always admired handsome actor Jordan Simpson. So, she’s shocked when her latest client turns out to be the dark-eyed superstar. Except now she’s faced with the man behind the famous facade—Jordan St. Claire, wealthy aristocrat! Recuperating from an accident at Mulberry Hall, his extensive family estate, Jordan isn’t suffering in silence. Roaming around the mansion, he’s like a sulky—but deadly attractive—beast! Albeit one who’s about to unleash Stephanie’s reserved sensuality once and for all. . . . Originally published in 2011.
Moving Music
An in-depth study of the relations between music and dance in the work of George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton and Anthony Tudor. It seeks to offer a depth of focus and to throw light on general connections between music and dance.
The Adventures of Jay & Tay
Jordan and Taylor, who have called each other Jay and Tay since as long as they could remember, are siblings. Jay is energetic and imaginative. He often lets his enthusiasm get the better of him. Tay, who is more reserved and thoughtful, seems to spend a lot of time rolling her eyes at her younger brother. Jay and Tay are about to begin an adventure that will take them on a journey of self-discovery. Jay is getting ready to attend his first martial arts class. He thinks he is going to learn how to fight like on television. He quickly realizes that being a martial artist has more to do with self-control, respect for others, and self discipline. He learns to follow directions, focus on the task at hand, and turn a bully into a friend. And so will you.
The Routledge Dance Studies Reader
"Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--P. [i].
The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill's extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics – ecological crisis, sexual politics, revolution, terror and selfhood – providing close readings of texts in their theatrical, theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill's major collaborations, her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill's career-long experimentation – her risk-taking that has reinvigorated the stage, both formally and politically. Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years, the Companion pays fresh attention to Churchill's poetic precision, dark wit and inexhaustible creativity.
Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body
It has long been known that practicing musicians and dancers draw upon interdisciplinary relationships between sound and movement to inform their work and that many performance arts educators apply these relationships in working with aspiring composers, choreographers and performers. However, most material on the subject has been, to this point, relegated to single chapters in books and journal articles. Now, Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body brings together the diverse topics researchers and practitioners across the sector are exploring, and raises issues concerning the collaborative aspects of creating and performing new work. Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body is a result of the Composer, Choreographer and Performer Collaboration Conference of Contemporary Music and Dance/Movement 2012 hosted by the Institute of Musical Research, Senate House, University of London, and the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Debussy in Performance
Claude Debussy, who composed works of major significance in a wide range of musical and theatrical genres, has exerted a fundamental influence on musicians of the twentieth century. This book explores how Debussy's compositions are brought to life in performance, investigating the composer's own expectations, the traditions surrounding the performance of his music, and the internal and contextual evidence that can give insight to performers of his works. Leading international scholars and interpreters of Debussy's music draw on his letters and music criticism as well as on the memoirs of performers close to him to discuss issues of performance forces, tempo and its flexibility, performer lic...
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
A unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers. Representing a wide range of dance genres, each entry locates the individual in the context of modern dance theatre and explores their impact. Those studied include: Jerome Bel Richard Alston Doug Varone William Forsythe Phillippe Decoufle Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Ohad Naharin Itzik Gallili Twyla Tharp Wim Vandekeybus With a new, updated introduction by Deborah Jowitt and further reading and references throughout, this text is an invaluable resource for all students and critics of dance, and all those interested in the fascinating world of choreography.
