New York, 1979: a dance crew in the Bronx called the Rock Steady Crew introduces the world to the original and most popular dance of hip-hop culture - B-Boy dancing. London, 1996: a small event known as the B-Boy Championships is launched at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire. This title explains the moves, styles, battles and crews.
Offers 26 dances to give instructors a total of 64 line and partner-pattern dances. This manual contains photographs, which show the moves and positions, and written descriptions and suggested music as well as footwork diagrams. It also provides dances for all abilities, as well as tips on class strategies.
Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues.
A renewed interest in nature, the ancient Greeks, and the freedom of the body was to transform dance and physical culture in the early twentieth century. The book discusses the creative individuals and developments in science and other art forms that shaped the evolution of modern dance in its international context.
The Breaking Bounds 2013 Wall Calendar features the dazzling physical feats of modern dance. With eye-catching black-and-white photography, the images- whether a soloist captured in a spectacular mid-air motion or a dramatic group pose, will amaze and delight throughout the year.
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.
This iconoclastic analysis explores Cunningham's life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments in American art. Copeland shows how Cunningham moved dance away from the highly emotional, subjective work of Martha Graham to a return to a new kind of classicism.
Drawing on the practical and theoretical heritage of modern dance and it's pre-cursors and including discussion of works up to and including the 1980s, this title reviews the main 'tools' of contemporary dance creation and thought: the body, weight, space, time, flow, breath, style and composition.
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.