6,482円 In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civ...

356円 Nestes contos, urbanos ou não, cuidadosamente urdidos como a trama exótica dos tapetes persas, a banalidade do cotidiano se desenrola em cenários surpreendentes e inesperados: é a coreografia da solidão, numa dança ritual da condição humana.

451円 When many people think of musicians, they think glitz and glamour and people accepting Grammy awards on television. However, for most people this isn’t the case. The average professional musician books gigs without the fanfare and the worldwide prestige. People who want to make a living making mu...

3,946円 In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of “dance as an art of and from America.” Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and arg...

6,623円 Ungoverning Dance examines the work of progressive contemporary dance artists in continental Europe from the mid 1990s to 2015. Placing this within the context of neoliberalism and austerity, the book argues that these artists have developed an ethico-aesthetic approach that uses dance practices ...

1,983円 Three dancers who changed the face of Modern Dance and liberated dancers from ballet’s rigidity to glorify the human body as a scared vessel: Isadora Duncan, 1877-1927, Ruth St. Denis, 1879-1968, and Martha Graham, 1894-1991. From youth, each recognized an organic urge for ecstatic human expres...

1,050円 Une fiche de référence sur Appalachian Spring, un spectacle chorégraphié par Martha Graham. Formée à la Denishawn School, l'école de Ruth Saint-Denis et de Ted Shawn, Martha Graham (1894-1991) est considérée comme la plus grande personnalité de la danse moderne américaine. Fille d'un médecin alié...

1,050円 Une fiche de référence sur Sakountala, un spectacle chorégraphié par Marie-Claude Pietragalla. Sakountala, spectacle créé en 2000 par Marie-Claude Pietragalla pour le Ballet national de Marseille, évoque, dans une grande fresque spectaculaire, la vie et l'œuvre de Camille Claudel (1864-1943). Ass...

1,050円 Une fiche de référence sur Symphonie pour un homme seul, un spectacle chorégraphié par Maurice Béjart. Lorsqu'il crée, le 26 juillet 1955, Symphonie pour un homme seul, Maurice Béjart, chorégraphe né à Marseille en 1927, n'est pas encore célèbre. Pourtant, sa pièce fera scandale au théâtre de l'É...

1,050円 Une fiche de référence sur Summerspace, un spectacle chorégraphié par Merce Cunningham. Dans un décor pointilliste et solaire de Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) crée Summerspace le 17 août 1958, sur une musique de Morton Feldman, dans le cadre de l'American Dance Festival. Il s'...

9,285円 Jasmin Vardimon’s Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer in the midst of her practice. Libby Worth and Jasmin Vardimon take a collaborative approach to recording and exploring the working processes of Vardimon and her company,...

1,635円 "A remarkably clear-eyed descent into New York's surreal world of modern dance peopled by the obsessed, dispossessed, sexy, suicidal, brutal, broke, and absurd."-Lance Olsen, author of Nietzsche's Kisses The award-winning writer Renée E. D'Aoust draws from her experiences as a modern dancer in Ne...