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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $13.34
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Manufacturer: Princeton Book Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Doris Humphrey
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Publisher: Princeton Book Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 792
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Publication Date: 1991-08-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Written just before the author's death in 1958, this book is an autobiography in art, a gathering of experiences in performance, and a lucid and practical source book on choreography.
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $5.48
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Martin Gottfried
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 792.82092
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Publication Date: 2003-09-17
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Reading Level: 512
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Description: Bob Fosse (19271987), the director and choreographer of Chicago and Sweet Charity, has never been more popular than he is right now. Here is the less-publicized side of his story-his surprising ascent from the world of sleazy Chicago strip joints to the glitter of Broadway. A legend's memory is preserved in this eloquent biography.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.68
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Manufacturer: Afterall Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Catherine Wood::Yvonne Rainer
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Publisher: Afterall Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 792.8
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Publication Date: 2007-12-31
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Reading Level: 112
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Description: "It is my overall concern to reveal people as they are engaged in various kinds of activities—alone, with each other, with objects—and to weight the quality of the human body towards that of objects and away from the super-stylization of the dancer."
—Yvonne Rainer, STATEMENT accompanying The Mind is a Muscle, 1968
In 1968, toward the end of a decade that witnessed civil rights protests, the escalation of the war in Vietnam, and an expanded notion of artistic practice (epitomized by "Happenings"), Yvonne Rainer presented her evening-length work, The Mind is a Muscle. A choreographed, multipart performance for seven dancers, interspersed with film and text, this major work was built upon a backbone of variations on Rainer's dance solo, Trio A. In this extended illustrated essay exploring The Mind is a Muscle, Catherine Wood examines the political and media context in which Rainer chose to use the dance-theatre situation as her medium and analyzes Rainer's radical approach to image-making in live form.
Rainer's work has been linked strongly with minimalist sculpture: she compared the neutral, specific qualities of those objects to her own "work-like" or "task-like," "ordinary" dance, and she collaborated early on with Robert Morris. But The Mind is a Muscle manifests an agitated and contradictory relationship to the idea of "work" in the context of an affluent, postwar America. Wood describes the way the choreography of The Mind is a Muscle proposed a new lexicon of movement that stripped away the gestural conventions of dance or theater narrative in an attempt to present the human subject on her own terms while at the same time manipulating the seductiveness of the image, increasingly being harnessed by capitalism. Rainer's legacy persists through her decision to allow the Trio A from The Mind is a Muscle as a "multiple," distributed by being taught to many dancers and non-dancers, proposing, Wood argues, for the art object as code.
Choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962. Her autobiography, Feelings are Facts, was published by The MIT Press in 2006.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $13.63
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Manufacturer: Heinemann Drama
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Margery Beddow
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Publisher: Heinemann Drama
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Dewey Decimal Number: 792.82092
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Publication Date: 1996-08-05
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: Beddow, a dancer who appeared in numerous Fosse shows (she replaced Gwen Verdon in one of his early shows) and recreated some of his choreography for national touring shows, checks in with a show-by-show account of Fosse's career, from Pajama Game through Sweet Charity and Pippin to Big Deal -- all told from a dancer's point of view. The book is at its best when it vividly describes some of Fosse's "lost" dances for lesser-known shows like Frank Loesser's Pleasures and Palaces, which closed out of town. Included are many rare photos of Fosse's dancers in action, and a heartbreaking account of his last rehearsal on the day he died.
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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $3.25
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tommy Tune
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Dewey Decimal Number: 792.8028092
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Publication Date: 1997-11-06
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Broadway icon Tommy Tune rummages through the packed attic of his eventful life as a nine-time Tony-winning dancer, director, and choreographer for his colorful memoir, Footnotes. Tune brings forth a surprising amount of grit from the glitter and froufrou, plus several startlingly graphic passages. His Texas boyhood amid supportive parents lead to a quick rise in the world of 1970s Broadway, and brought this modern-day Fred Astaire to success at the helm of shows such as Nine, My One and Only, Grand Hotel, and The Club. There are regrets, philosophy, affairs with men and women, and soft-focus reminiscences of Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Agnes de Mille, and others. But behind it all he reveals an unaccountable feeling of emptiness and hunger for light, movement, and beauty. A sidelining foot injury in 1995 left him in the reflective mood conveyed in Footnotes, but Tune's story isn't over yet.
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Manufacturer: Schirmer G Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ernestine Stodelle
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Publisher: Schirmer G Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 793.30924
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Publication Date: 1984-08
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Reading Level: 329
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $18.00
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Manufacturer: Waveland Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lois Ellfeldt
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Publisher: Waveland Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 792
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Publication Date: 1988-04
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Reading Level: 113
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Description: Simple guidelines for the business of "making up dances!" Choreographers do not make dances out of words. They compose them in the vocabulary of movement. Dr. Ellfeldt has long demonstrated her command of that vocabulary in her own dance compositions. Now, in A Primer for Choreographers, she has undertaken the difficult task of explaining its alphabet to beginning students. Beginning with a brief definition of dance, this book supplies young dancers not with an easy explanation of the process of choreography, but with some tools for finding their own processes. It is a primer, a beginner's book, which identifies the alphabet and the rules of grammar and spelling of dance. It is not a how-to book, for no one is sure how to succeed as a choreographer--except by really trying.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.03
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Manufacturer: Princeton Book Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Angela Whitehill::William Noble
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Publisher: Princeton Book Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 792.842
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Publication Date: 2004-09-01
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Reading Level: 120
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Description: This inside look at the The Nutcracker combines both the story and insights into the performance, creating a rich complement to the classic ballet. Abundant illustrations and elaborate explanations of each character, from the Nutcracker Prince to Mother Ginger, provides an invaluable supplement to the ballet experience. The story behind Tchaikovsky's famous score and the elements of a quality performance are explained. The trials of auditioning and training are chronicled with the testimony of professional dancers, artistic directors, and choreographers who have been part of successful productions.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $17.16
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rose Eichenbaum
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 792.820922
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Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Dramatically candid conversations about the creative life with 59 leading American choreographers. "Eichenbaum's firsthand knowledge of dance, her passion for dancing and the people who do it, and her appreciation of the minutiae of lives, both everyday and Olympian, all combine to open windows onto the soul of dance and the lives of those who helped to define and shape the art in the 20th century."—Jennifer Dunning, dance critic, New York Times Where does the impulse to create originate? What is the choreographer's responsibility to the dancers, the audience, the self? These are just a few of the probing questions that Rose Eichenbaum asks some of America's most celebrated choreographers in her quest to understand the secrets of creativity. A collection of photographic portraits and vignettes based on intimate conversations, Masters of Movement is a rare journey into the world of dance. Whether through her lens—David Parsons, in a business suit, standing on the branch of a Central Park tree; Anna Halprin lying naked at the base of a giant California redwood—or through the revelations from her thoughtful interviews, Eichenbaum captures the essential character of her subjects, who have confided the experiences and emotions that have driven their creativity and defined their styles. 118 duotones.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $14.94
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Manufacturer: Carol Publishing Corporation
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alvin Ailey::A. Peter Bailey
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Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
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Dewey Decimal Number: 792.8028092
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Publication Date: 1995-02
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Reading Level: 183
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Description: Discussing the private life of a pioneer choreographer, an in-depth portrait notes how his father's absence, racism in the dance world, and the Katherine Dunham Company affected his work in such ballets as "Revelations" and "Blues Suite."
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