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Viaje a Través De La Historia De La Danza

Autor: Jose Rafael Vilar

Número de Páginas: 183

JOS RAFAEL VILAR VIAJE A TRAVS DE LA HISTORIA DE LA DANZA Este pequeo libro surgi de la falta de un texto, accesible y en castellano, para que mis alumnos de historia de la danza pudieran ampliar sus conocimientos, por lo que ste podr servir a muchos lectores, artistas en formacin o profesionales o slo nefitos con inters en este hermoso arte, para conocer y disfrutarlo mejor, porque cuando se conoce de dnde surge una obra o cmo era su entorno, se la disfruta mejor. La danza es un arte que est siempre presente en nuestras vidas, desde las cuevas en la comunidad primitiva, y ha estado indisolublemente ligada a cada etapa de la historia, ya sea como danzas religiosas, de saln o de escena o, sencillamente ldricas. En este libro viajaremos por sus orgenes en la prehistoria, cuando el gesto y la necesidad de comunicarnos se unieron; conocerernos la danza mgica y "Los Misterios"; recorreremos el Renacimiento y los bailes de saln; pasearemos por el barroco hasta llegar al Ballet comique de la Reine; encontraremos a Noverre y Angiolini; llegaremos con La filie mal garde al Romanticismo y seguiremos con Giselle, ou Les willis; iremos a Rusia con el Clacisismo y Petipa y Tschaikovsky,...

El arte del actor en el siglo XX. Un recorrido teórico y práctico por las vanguardias

Autor: Borja Ruiz

Número de Páginas: 548

Character Animation

Autor: Steve Roberts

Número de Páginas: 300

Improve your 3D animation by understanding the key traditional 2D skills. Learn the basics for producing original and exciting animation.

Expanded Choreographies – Choreographic Histories

Autor: Anna Leon

Número de Páginas: 426

From objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigations of expanded choreography as it develops in contemporaneity, and is the first to consider expanded choreography from a trans-historical perspective. Through case studies on different periods of European dance history – ranging from Renaissance dance to William Forsythe's choreographic objects and from Baroque court ballets to digital choreographies – it traces a journey of choreography as a practice transcending its sole association with dancing, moving, human bodies.

Hitler's Dancers

Autor: Lilian Karina , Marion Kant

Número de Páginas: 400

The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled culture and tells the histories of great figures who became enthusiastic Nazis and lied about it later. The book offers three perspectives: the dancer Lilian Karina writes her very vivid personal story of dancing in interwar Germany; the dance historian Marion Kant gives a systematic account of the interaction of modern dance and the totalitarian state, and a documentary appendix provides a glimpse into the twisted reality created by Nazi racism, pedantic bureaucrats and artistic ambition.

Rudolf Laban

Autor: John Hodgson , Valerie Preston-dunlop

Número de Páginas: 182

Rudolf Laban, the Hungarian pioneer of modern dance theory and notation technique, may yet prove the most influential dance figure of the 20th century. This book introduces the man and assesses the range of his influence through a series of essays and a reference file.

Rhythm and Critique

Autor: Crespi Paola Crespi

Número de Páginas: 357

Rhythm and Critique presents 12 new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis. It includes newly translated materials from Rudolf Laban and Henri Meschonnic. The book begins with a genealogy of rhythm as it occurs through critical theory literatures of the 20th century, enabling the reader to situate philosophical and contemporary readings that further define rhythm as a critical term and mode of analysis.

Laban's Efforts in Action

Autor: Vanessa Ewan , Kate Sagovsky

Número de Páginas: 305

As an actor, awareness of your movement is the key to transformation. By making deliberate physical choices, you can fully and articulately embody different ways of being: you can become someone or something else. Laban's Efforts give you a way of identifying and making these choices. Working with them helps the actor to create wholly present and physically ambitious performances. This book outlines Ewan's practical process, which allows the actor to understand their own movement and that of others by exploring one key part of Laban's work: the 'Efforts of Action Drive'. This complete, stage-by-stage, working process has been developed through more than thirty years of work with actors in the studio. Clear instructions for practical exercises are woven throughout the book, as well as exciting ways to apply the work in rehearsal, performance and on set. This allows the actor to learn and apply Laban's Efforts for themselves. Full video and audio resources allow the reader to experience the practical work in action.

Preserving Dance Across Time and Space

Autor: Lynn Matluck Brooks , Joellen A. Meglin

Número de Páginas: 316

Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’ legacies alive so that the dancers of today and tomorrow can experience and learn from the dances and dancers of the past. In this volume, a range of voices address the issue of dance preservation through memory, artistic choice, interpretation, imagery and notation, as well as looking at relevant archives, legal structures, documentation and artefacts. The intertwining of dance preservation and creativity is a core theme discussed throughout this text, pointing to the essential continuity of dance history and dance innovation. The demands of preservation stretch across time, geographies, institutions and interpersonal connections, and this book focuses on the fascinating web that supports the fragile yet urgent effort to sustain our dancing heritage. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.

Action!

Autor: John Kundert-gibbs , Kristin Kundert-gibbs

Número de Páginas: 628

In order to bring a character to life, it is beneficial for animators to have a solid understanding of acting principles, and this book examines the important skills behind the artistry of creating animated characters. With a particular emphasis on a character’s motions and movement, this unique resource covers the basic elements of acting for CG animation and then progresses to more advanced topics such as internal intent and motivation. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

¡Baila!

Autor: Maurane Mazars

Número de Páginas: 250

PREMIO REVELACIÓN DEL FESTIVAL DE ANGOULÊME 2021 Una emotiva novela gráfica que agita el cuerpo y la mente, y que celebra la libertad de bailar como se quiera y amar a quien se desee. Premiada como Obra Revelación en el Festival de Angoulême de 2021 Alemania, 1957. Uli es un joven apasionado de los musicales que alberga un gran sueño: convertirse en un bailarín famoso de Broadway. Pero como estudiante de danza moderna en la prestigiosa escuela Folkwang, su personalidad risueña y su extrovertida forma de bailar se topan de frente con el desánimo y el nihilismo de la Europa de posguerra. En un viaje a Berlín conoce a Anthony, un joven bailarín estadounidense. La atracción es inmediata y los lleva a mantener un idilio breve pero apasionado durante el que Anthony le canta a Uli las maravillas de Nueva York transportándolo al vibrante mundo entre bambalinas de Broadway. Los jóvenes se separan, pero, seducido por el sueño americano, Uli hará las maletas y se embarcará en una aventura que lo llevará a una nueva vida llena de color y movimiento, pero también de decepción, cruda realidad y amargo desamor. La crítica ha dicho: «Una oda sensible a los movimientos y la...

Dance on Its Own Terms

Autor: Melanie Bales , Karen Eliot

Número de Páginas: 455

Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies anthologizes a wide range of subjects examined from dance-centered methodologies: modes of research that are emergent, based in relevant systems of movement analysis, use primary sources, and rely on critical, informed observation of movement. The chapters emphasize dance history and core disciplinary knowledge in three categories of significant dance activity: performance and reconstruction, pedagogy and choreographic process, and notational and other written forms that analyze and document dance. Conceptually, each chapter also raises concerns and questions that point to broadly inclusive methodological applications. Engaging and insightful, Dance on its Own Terms represents a major contribution to research on dance.

Le bonheur - Dictionnaire historique et critique

Autor: Michèle Gally

Número de Páginas: 624

C'est que du bonheur ", s'exclame-t-on désormais communément à tout propos ! Mais qu'est-ce que le bonheur ? Un désir, une aspiration ? Une disposition d'esprit, une aptitude que chacun posséderait à des degrés différents, l'humanité se divisant entre optimistes et pessimistes ? Notre époque, pourtant lourde d'angoisses en l'avenir, semble en effet obsédée par le bonheur. Elle paraît faire de la capacité à être heureux une injonction, un ordre politiquement correct : multiplication de guides et de manuels, créations de clubs et de think tank (" Fabrique Spinoza ", " ligue de l'optimisme "), mise en place de travaux de recherche sur le thème (chaire de sciences du bonheur, Nobel d'économie décerné à Angus Deaton pour ses travaux sur bonheur et croissance). Ce dictionnaire est donc né d'un étonnement sur la place paradoxale prise par une notion fuyante dès que l'on tente de la fixer historiquement et psychologiquement. Il se veut donc critique. Croisant des points de vue multiples à travers 230 entrées et 92 auteurs, de la philosophie à la littérature, des arts à la sociologie, de l'économie à la psychologie et à la psychanalyse, des neurosciences à ...

The Dancer's World, 1920 - 1945

Autor: M. Huxley

Número de Páginas: 133

The Dancer's World 1920-1945 focuses on modern dancers as they saw themselves. Five chapters describe a narrative arc that encompasses Europe and the USA with a focus between 1920 and 1945. A final chapter considers contemporary relevance for dancers, dance artists, choreographers, dance students and scholars alike.

Vu du geste

Autor: Christine Roquet

Número de Páginas: 331

« S'appuyer sur l'air », « partager l'espace », « donner son poids », « danser à l'écoute »... Les danseurs et les danseuses sont dépositaires de savoirs implicites dont on trouve trace dans leur langue. Mais comment faire la lumière sur ces savoirs issus de l'expérience du geste et de la perception ? Sur quelle pensée de l'imaginaire ou de l'émotion prendre appui pour saisir au mieux les enjeux du geste dansé ? Comment « lire » ce geste, et avec quels outils ? Comment peut-il faire sens pour celui qui bouge, comme pour celui qui regarde ? Dans le prolongement des travaux des chercheurs en danse Michel Bernard et Hubert Godard, Christine Roquet nous invite ici à penser la corporéité dansante comme un système complexe d'éléments en interaction. Nourrie de son expérience de terrain au contact des danseurs, elle interroge également la manière dont la danse peut contribuer à inventer de la relation et offrir en partage la joie de danser. Car, du cours à l'atelier, du bal à la scène, du point de vue du danseur à celui du spectateur, Christine Roquet nous révèle comment l'analyse du mouvement peut enrichir notre perception, interroger notre relation à...

Beyond Words

Autor: Carol-lynne Moore , Kaoru Yamamoto

Número de Páginas: 243

Beyond Words presents a range of illuminating approaches to examining every day social interactions, to help the reader understand human movement in new ways. Carol-Lynne Moore and Kaoru Yamamoto build on the principles that they expertly explored in the first edition of the book, maintaining a focus on the processes of movement as opposed to discussions of static body language. The authors combine textual discussion with a new set of website-hosted video instructions to ensure that readers develop an in-depth understanding of nonverbal communication, as well as the work of its most influential analyst, Rudolf Laban. This fully-revised, extensively illustrated second edition includes a new introduction by the authors. It presents a fascinating insight into this vital field of study, and will be an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners in many activities, from performing and martial arts, athletics, to therapeutic and spiritual practices, conflict resolution, business interactions, and intercultural relations.

Choreographing Relations

Autor: Petra Sabisch

Número de Páginas: 281

"Choreographing Relations" undertakes the experiment of a conceptual site development of contemporary choreography by means of practical philosophy. Guided by the radically empiricist question "What Can Choreography Do?" the book investigates the performances of Antonia Baehr, Juan Dominguez, Xavier Le Roy, and Eszter Salamon, and the philosophical works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It establishes a relation between these practitioners as an encounter in method, and develops method as a singular, material and experimental practice. In view of these singular methods and the participatory relations to which they give rise, Choreographing Relations offers a prolific inventory of arepresentational procedures that qualitatively transformed choreography and philosophy at the turn of the twentieth century.

Gestural Imaginaries

Autor: Lucia Ruprecht

Número de Páginas: 353

Gestural Imaginaries offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy.

Creative Methods in Military Studies

Autor: Alice Cree

Número de Páginas: 291

What can creative methods offer our understanding of military power and militarised cultures? What constitutes ‘creative research’ in military studies? And, what are some of the challenges of this type of work? This edited volume brings together authors working at the cutting edge of creative research in military studies, to explore how creativity and creative practice can shed new light on often taken for granted concepts in critical military research. In twelve empirically and conceptually rich chapters, authors from a diverse range of disciplinary fields draw on theatre, model-making, songwriting, dance, spoken word, paper making, and more, to question what military research can and should look like. As a collection, the book explores topics of central concern in military studies such as militarism, military experience, and militarised cultures, as well as more practical questions around ethics, positionality, and research relationships. This path-breaking new volume considers what exactly constitutes creativity in critical military research, while offering the tools for researchers to think anew about big questions in the field.

Movement and Making Decision

Autor: Carol-lynne Moore

Número de Páginas: 138

Noted movement specialist Carol-Lynne Moore examines the subtle relationship between movement and the decision-making process. She explores this relationship in the context of recounting the role of movement analysis in the field of work-study. Moore traces the evolving ideas and methods upon which this field is based, from its infancy at the turn of the 20th century when it was concerned with efficient patterns of physical labor, to its maturation in the context of corporate management today. As she follows the fascinating history of work-study she shows us how the human body and mind are ever one and inseparable, and how a theory and practice of movement analysis can capture the elusive nature of movement to reveal human character.

Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

Autor: Patricia Vertinsky , Jennifer Hargreaves

Número de Páginas: 278

During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including: physical culture and the fascist body sport and the racialised body sport medicine, health and the culture of risk the female Muslim sporting body, power, and politics experiencing the disabled sporting body embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport the social logic of sparring sport, girls and the neoliberal body. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author’s muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body.

Video Annotation for Dance and Performance

Autor: Rebecca Stancliffe

Número de Páginas: 247

This book explores video annotation as a reflective, analytic, organisational, and publishing tool for performance scholarship. On the understanding that we differentiate ourselves through the adoption of technology, annotation is introduced as a manual practice of seeing and decision-making that not only enriches or supplements time-based media but develops the analytic capacity and deep attention of human (rather than computational) subjects. This is an important book for students and scholars in dance, performance studies, media studies, and anyone working with video as a research tool.

Movement for Actors (Second Edition)

Autor: Nicole Potter , Barbara Adrian , Mary Fleischer

Número de Páginas: 695

In this updated rich resource for actors, renowned movement teachers and directors reveal the physical skills needed for the stage and the screen. Readers will gain remarkable insights into the physical skills and techniques used in a wide variety of performance styles through ready-to-use exercises and approaches. Included in this new edition are chapters covering: Stage combat Yoga for actors Martial arts Body-mind centering Authentic movement Bartenieff fundamentals Grotowski-based movement Those who want to pursue serious training will be able to consult the appendix for listings of the best teachers and schools in the country. This inspiring collection is a must-read for all actors, directors, and teachers of theater looking for stimulation and new approaches. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times...

Cultures de l'oubli et citation

Autor: Isabelle Launay

Número de Páginas: 372

Si la mémoire des œuvres en danse peut s'entretenir à travers des traditions, qu'advient-il lorsqu'il y a rupture dans la transmission, quand des danseurs et chorégraphes modernes, tels Mary Wigman, Valeska Gert, Joséphine Baker ou Rudolf Laban, envisagent une mémoire discontinue de leurs gestes ? Et qu'arrive-t-il, presque un siècle plus tard, lorsque des artistes contemporains découvrent des danses passées et se laissent ravir au point d'en faire quelque chose ? Reprendre, c'est alors créer un court-circuit dans le temps qui « allume la mèche de l'explosif enfouie dans l'Autrefois », selon Walter Benjamin. Mettant au cœur de sa réflexion l'analyse des œuvres chorégraphiques, de leur processus et de leurs enjeux, Isabelle Launay observe la façon dont des artistes contemporains (Vera Mantero, le Quatuor Knust, Jérôme Bel, Latifa Laâbissi, Mark Tompkins, Loïc Touzé) réactivent des danses du passé. Dégagée du continuum d'une tradition, la mémoire des œuvres circule et travaille alors par surprises, transferts, montages et par l'inquiétante force de la citation.

Transmissions in Dance

Autor: Lesley Main

Número de Páginas: 239

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission, translation and transformation, it features deep insights into selected dances from directors, performers, and close associates of choreographers. The breadth of practice on offer illustrates the capacity of dance as a medium to adapt successfully to diverse approaches and, further, that there is a growing appetite amongst audiences for seeing dances from the near and far past. This study spans a century, from Rudolf Laban’s Dancing Drumstick (1913) to Robert Cohan’s Sigh (2015), and examines works by Mary Wigman, Madge Atkinson (Natural Movement), Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham, Yvonne Rainer and Rosemary Butcher, an eclectic mix that crosses time and borders.

Practical Utopia

Autor: Anna Neima

Número de Páginas: 323

Tells the compelling story of Dartington Hall - a far-reaching social, cultural and education experiment in Devon in the interwar years.

Ecstasy and the Demon

Autor: Susan Manning

Número de Páginas: 400

Mary Wigman, Germany’s premier dancer between the two world wars, envisioned the performer in the thrall of ecstatic and demonic forces. Widely hailed as an innovator of dance modernism, she never acknowledged her complex relationship with National Socialism. In Ecstasy and the Demon, Susan Manning advances a sociological explanation for the collaboration between German modern dancers and National Socialism. She models methods for dance studies that contextualize choreography in relation to changing sociopolitical conditions, bringing dance scholarship into conversation with intellectual trends across the humanities. The introduction to this second edition brings Manning’s groundbreaking work to bear on dance studies today and reconsiders Wigman’s career from the perspective of queer theory and globalization, further illuminating the interplay of dance and politics in the twentieth century. Susan Manning is professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University.

Les mutations de l’écriture

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 216

En ce début du troisième millénaire, la musique adresse une question aux autres arts comme aux sciences : comment ajuster les écritures musicale, mathématique, chorégraphique, biologique, etc., aux nouvelles matières sur lesquelles ces pensées embrayent ? S’il est vrai que le système autonome d’écriture musicale, le solfège, inventé il y a près de 1 000 ans, s’avère désormais en partie inadapté aux nouveaux matériaux sonores qu’il s’agit de composer, l’actuelle prolifération empirique des simples notations ne saurait pourvoir aux mutations en jeu : en matière d’écriture musicale, il en va non de techniques neutres mais bien de logique musicale, de ce qu’un discours ou un développement veulent dire musicalement. S’il s’agit donc de penser les mutations en cours en matière de « logique musicale », et leurs exigences, en matière de nouvelles « lettres/notes » musicales, qu’en est-il de problématiques semblables dans les autres arts et dans les sciences ? Qu’en est-il de mutations équivalentes dans les autres arts, singulièrement dans ceux qui entreprennent de se doter d’une écriture qui leur est propre, comme la chorégraphie ? ...

Literature, Modernism, and Dance

Autor: Susan Jones

Número de Páginas: 357

This book explores the complex relationship between literature and dance in the era of modernism. During this period an unprecedented dialogue between the two art forms took place, based on a common aesthetics initiated by contemporary discussions of the body and gender, language, formal experimentation, primitivism, anthropology, and modern technologies such as photography, film, and mechanisation. The book traces the origins of this relationship to the philosophical antecedents of modernism in the nineteenth century and examines experimentation in both art forms. The book investigates dance's impact on the modernists' critique of language and shows the importance to writers of choreographic innovations by dancers of the fin de siècle, of the Ballets Russes, and of European and American experimentalists in non-balletic forms of modern dance. A reciprocal relationship occurs with choreographic use of literary text. Dance and literature meet at this time at the site of formal experiments in narrative, drama, and poetics, and their relationship contributes to common aesthetic modes such as symbolism, primitivism, expressionism, and constructivism. Focussing on the first half of the ...

When Men Dance

Autor: Jennifer Fisher , Anthony Shay

Número de Páginas: 433

When Men Dance explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and different cultural contexts. Chapters tackle the history and dilemmas that revolve around dance and notions of masculinity from a variety of dance studies perspectives, and are accompanied by fascinating personal histories that complement their themes.

The 20th Century Go-N

Autor: Frank N. Magill

Número de Páginas: 1407

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

Autor: Paul Allain , Jen Harvie

Número de Páginas: 258

Discussing some of the pivotal questions relating to the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies, this engaging, easy-to-use text is undoubtedly a perfect reference guide for the keen student and passionate theatre-goer alike.

The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

Autor: Peter Harrop , Steve Roud

Número de Páginas: 855

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times, this book builds on the latest work in an ever-growing body of contemporary folklore scholarship. Many of the contributing scholars are also practicing performers and bring experience and understanding of performance to their analyses and critiques. Chapters range across the spectrum of folk song, music, drama and dance, but maintain a focus on the key defining characteristics of folk performance – custom and tradition – in a full range of performances, from carol singing and sword dancing to playground rhymes and mummers' plays. As well as being an essential reference for folklorists and scholars of traditional performance and local history, this is a valuable resource for readers in all disciplines of dance, drama, song and music whose work coincides with English folk traditions.