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Dancing across borders
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Anthony Shay |
"This study describes and analyzes the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms among mainstream Americans. Throughout the 20th century, millions of Americans have begun learning and performing va… |
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Black social dance in television advertising
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Carla Stalling Huntington |
"This work investigates the anthropologic aesthetic of black social dance in television advertising. Covering the 1950s through 2010 in the United States, each decade is explored as dance is shown to… |
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Ballroom, boogie, shimmy sham, shake
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Julie Malnig |
"This dynamic collection documents the rich and varied history of social dance and the multiple styles it has generated, while drawing on some of the most current forms of critical and theoretical in… |
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The makers of modern dance in Germany
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Harold Bergsohn,Isa Partsch-Bergsohn |
This is the story of three passionate choreographers and their colleagues who created European modern dance in the twentieth century despite the storms of war and oppression. It begins with Rudolf La… |
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Dance and the body in western theatre
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Sabine Sörgel |
"The mid to late twentieth century has been widely regarded as the century of the body, when philosophers, cultural critics, sociologists, and theatre historians spent inordinate amounts of time and … |
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The art of dancing in seventeenth-century Spain
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Juan De Esquivel Navarro,Lynn Matluck Brooks |
"The only known published book on dancing that dates from the seventeenth century in Spain appeared in Seville in 1642: Juan de Esquivel Navarro's treatise titled Discursos sobre el arte del danzado.… |
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Modern dance in France
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Robinson, Jacqueline |
It was indeed an adventure for those pioneers in France who struggled for the recognition of the new-born dance of the 20th century - from the free dance of Isadora Duncan, to the absolute dance of M… |
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