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Reflections Of Dance Along The Brahmaputra - Celebrating Dance In North East India

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 This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is also a way of declaring, establishing, celebrating, and asserting humans' relationship with nature.
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Lives In Motion - Celebrating Dance In Thailand

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 Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad, the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in contemporary dance, changing local traditions in the country, the evolution of Thai dance on the global stage, and hybrid features of the Thai dance world.The book examines how hybridity has been integral to dance cultures in Thailand and discusses how they have actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models, standards and sites for dance, movement and theater, dance in Thai has been advancing in innovative ways, whether it is to include fresh forms of skilled bodily movement or to expand in new arenas like tourism and online platforms. Similarly, old systems of training, which included artists’ homes, palaces, and temples, have been adapted into the new world of modern education, media, home schooling, and new community rituals.A pioneering contribution on Thai performing arts, this volume examines contemporary Thai dance cultures in the local, national, regional, and global contexts. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of dance and performance studies, cultural studies, Southeast Asia studies, and art.
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Lives In Motion - Celebrating Dance In Thailand

~~50,34€~~ 45,31€ 10% OFF

 Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad, the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in contemporary dance, changing local traditions in the country, the evolution of Thai dance on the global stage, and hybrid features of the Thai dance world.The book examines how hybridity has been integral to dance cultures in Thailand and discusses how they have actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models, standards and sites for dance, movement and theater, dance in Thai has been advancing in innovative ways, whether it is to include fresh forms of skilled bodily movement or to expand in new arenas like tourism and online platforms. Similarly, old systems of training, which included artists’ homes, palaces, and temples, have been adapted into the new world of modern education, media, home schooling, and new community rituals.A pioneering contribution on Thai performing arts, this volume examines contemporary Thai dance cultures in the local, national, regional, and global contexts. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of dance and performance studies, cultural studies, Southeast Asia studies, and art.
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Reflections Of Dance Along The Brahmaputra - Celebrating Dance In North East India

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 This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys, lifestyles, and connections within their ethnic groups, marking almost every ritual and festival. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is also a way of declaring, establishing, celebrating, and asserting humans'' relationship with nature. The book draws attention to the origins and special circumstances of dances from North East India. It discusses a range of important folk-dance forms alongside classical dance forms in North East India, with a focus on Sattriya dance. The chapters examine how these dance forms play an important role in the region’s socio-cultural, economic, and political life, intertwining religion and the arts through music, dance, and drama. Further, they also explore how folk dance cultures in North East India have never been relegated to the background, never considered secondary, aesthetically, or otherwise, but have become expressions of political and cultural identity. An evocative work, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, theatre and performance studies, social and cultural studies, aesthetics, interdisciplinary arts, and more. It will be an invaluable resource for artists and practitioners working in dance schools and communities.
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Reflections Of Dance Along The Brahmaputra - Celebrating Dance In North East India

50,34€ + 10% CARD

 This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys, lifestyles, and connections within their ethnic groups, marking almost every ritual and festival. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is also a way of declaring, establishing, celebrating, and asserting humans'' relationship with nature. The book draws attention to the origins and special circumstances of dances from North East India. It discusses a range of important folk-dance forms alongside classical dance forms in North East India, with a focus on Sattriya dance. The chapters examine how these dance forms play an important role in the region’s socio-cultural, economic, and political life, intertwining religion and the arts through music, dance, and drama. Further, they also explore how folk dance cultures in North East India have never been relegated to the background, never considered secondary, aesthetically, or otherwise, but have become expressions of political and cultural identity. An evocative work, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, theatre and performance studies, social and cultural studies, aesthetics, interdisciplinary arts, and more. It will be an invaluable resource for artists and practitioners working in dance schools and communities.
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Reflections Of Dance Along The Brahmaputra - Celebrating Dance In North East India

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 This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is also a way of declaring, establishing, celebrating, and asserting humans' relationship with nature.
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Shaping The Landscape - Celebrating Dance In Australia

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 This, the fourth book in the series ''Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific'', explores the current dance scene in Australia from a wide perspective that mirrors the creative engagement of artists with Australian culture and the landscape. It looks at Indigenous dance, choreography beyond theatre, youth and community dance, Australian dancers’ versatility and risk-taking. The comprehensive essays recount immigrant influences, the legacy of the Ballets Russes and Bodenwieser companies, dance on stage and screen, education and training and the story of Ausdance — the unique nation-wide voice and political advocacy organisation for dance.
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Shaping The Landscape - Celebrating Dance In Australia

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 This, the fourth book in the series ''Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific'', explores the current dance scene in Australia from a wide perspective that mirrors the creative engagement of artists with Australian culture and the landscape. It looks at Indigenous dance, choreography beyond theatre, youth and community dance, Australian dancers’ versatility and risk-taking. The comprehensive essays recount immigrant influences, the legacy of the Ballets Russes and Bodenwieser companies, dance on stage and screen, education and training and the story of Ausdance — the unique nation-wide voice and political advocacy organisation for dance.
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Beyond The Apsara - Celebrating Dance In Cambodia

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 This book documents the resurgence of dance in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. It includes narratives by the few remaining masters of the art of dance who are reviving the classical dances, as well as by young artists who are attempting paths in contemporary dance
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Sharing Identities - Celebrating Dance In Malaysia

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 This anthology celebrates dancing diversities in Malaysia, a multicultural nation with old and not-so-old dance traditions. It documents the legacy of dances from the Malay Sultanates to a contemporary remix of old and new dances inspired by a range of influences and indigenous traditions
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Identity And Diversity - Celebrating Dance In Taiwan

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 Fifth in the series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific, the book traces the history of dance in Taiwan. A collection of articles and voices of dance professionals, scholars and critics, the volume examines the influence of other cultures, including Chinese, Japanese and American, that reflects in the works of Taiwanese choreographe
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Moving Oceans - Celebrating Dance In The South Pacific

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 Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. It focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections.
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Moving Oceans - Celebrating Dance In The South Pacific

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections.
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Moving Oceans - Celebrating Dance In The South Pacific

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections.
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Evolving Synergies - Celebrating Dance In Singapore

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 A comprehensive overview of the dance culture of Singapore, this book embodies storytelling, personal reflections, memories, and histories of the artists. The extensive calendar of events encompassing companies and soloists from diverse dance practices, such as Indian, Malay and Chinese and a variety of Western contemporary dances, underline Singapore as a vibrant player in the evolution of Asian culture.
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Evolving Synergies - Celebrating Dance In Singapore

67,56€ + 10% CARD

 A comprehensive overview of the dance culture of Singapore, this book embodies storytelling, personal reflections, memories, and histories of the artists. The extensive calendar of events encompassing companies and soloists from diverse dance practices, such as Indian, Malay and Chinese and a variety of Western contemporary dances, underline Singapore as a vibrant player in the evolution of Asian culture.
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Evolving Synergies - Celebrating Dance In Singapore

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 This book, Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore, is a noteworthy contribution to the discourse of the Singapore dance scene. It discusses the evolution of Singapore's dance landscape, and its place in the city-state's social, cultural and historical development.
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Beyond The Apsara - Celebrating Dance In Cambodia

71,64€ + 10% CARD

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 This book documents the resurgence of dance in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. It includes narratives by the few remaining masters of the art of dance who are reviving the classical dances, as well as by young artists who are attempting paths in contemporary dance
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Shaping The Landscape - Celebrating Dance In Australia

71,64€ + 10% CARD

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 The book explores the current dance scene in Australia from a wide perspective that mirrors the creative engagement of artists with Australian culture and landscape.
ENGLISH

Sharing Identities - Celebrating Dance In Malaysia

71,64€ + 10% CARD

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 This anthology celebrates dancing diversities in Malaysia, a multicultural nation with old and not-so-old dance traditions. It documents the legacy of dances from the Malay Sultanates to a contemporary remix of old and new dances inspired by a range of influences and indigenous traditions
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Identity And Diversity - Celebrating Dance In Taiwan

79,75€ + 10% CARD

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 Fifth in the series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific, the book traces the history of dance in Taiwan. A collection of articles and voices of dance professionals, scholars and critics, the volume examines the influence of other cultures, including Chinese, Japanese and American, that reflects in the works of Taiwanese choreographe
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Traversing Tradition - Celebrating Dance In India

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 This book documents and celebrates the emergence of contemporary dance practice in India. It includes contributions from scholars, writers, commentators as well as Indian artists and questions the uneasy relationship that exists between the insular world of dance and outside reality.
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Moving Oceans - Celebrating Dance In The South Pacific

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 Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections.
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Identity And Diversity - Celebrating Dance In Taiwan

216,30€ + 10% CARD

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 Fifth in the series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific, the book traces the history of dance in Taiwan. A collection of articles and voices of dance professionals, scholars and critics, the volume examines the influence of other cultures, including Chinese, Japanese and American, that reflects in the works of Taiwanese choreographers and performers.
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