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This is the first history of the innovative, beloved, and critically acclaimed dance theater company Pilobolus, with revelatory behind-the-scenes details of its creators and significant works.

This edited collection gathers UK and international artists, academics, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of contemporary performance, dance, and live art to offer creative-critical responses to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their work.Themes addressed in these case studies include the ways in which liveness functions across digital platforms, the new demands on audiences and performance-makers, and the impact on international festivals as the digital removes geographical and locational restrictions. Brought together, these examples capture the creative activity and output that this unexpected cultural moment has provoked. Creative-critical responses interrogate what the global pandemic has taught us about what it is to make live work during lockdown and explore what the future of performance-making in a post-COVID¿world might look like.¿For all scholars and performance-makers whose work brings them into the sphere of contemporary art and culture, this is an essential and stimulating account of practice at the beginning of the 2020s.

This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments, curricula, classes, and artistic settings.

Tango Confidential is a little bit Bridget Jones Diary, meets Nora Ephron and all tied up with a Jane Austen bow How to you create the perfect recipe for romance? Take a cookbook author/single mother of three, add some tango lessons and cue the seductive music of the bandeleon. Stir until everything bubbles into a romance that never quits and a melody line that has your soul running right through it. A dance memoir or a love story? Tango Confidential is both! How do you create the perfect recipe for romance? Take one cookbook author-single-mother of three sons, add some tango lessons and cue the seductive music of the bandoneon. Stir until everything bubbles over into a romance that never quits. A charming and honest memoir, Tango Confidential chronicles Goldman's two-decade worth of tango adventures in riveting vignettes including How to Fall in Love in 30 Seconds, Blind Man Dancing Tango, How to Fall in Love in 30 Seconds and Prelude to a Kiss. Marcy Goldman, a professional pastry chef and writer wandered into her first tango class over two decades ago and never looked back. Hours after her marriage ended, she registered for dance lessons that marked the beginning of a journey that is still evolving. A heady daylight mix of car pools, bake sales and online dating is counterpointed by the night time seduction of a mid-life, lyrical romance, Argentinian style, Tango Confidential chronicles Goldman's two decades of a unique tango life in this book of riveting vignettes from the dance floor, including How to Fall in Love in 30 Seconds, Blind Man Dancing Tango, Prelude to a Kiss, Ballroom vs Tango Wars, and the Dairy Queen Tango. It's Bridget Jones Diary meets Nora Ephron all tied up with a Jane Austen bow. Marcy Goldman is a master baker and host of www.Betterbaking.com. She's been a contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bon Appetit, Epicurious, Huffington Post and a is leading voice at Medium.com. Her best-selling cookbooks including When Bakers Cook, A Passion for Baking as well a poetry collection, Love and Ordinary Things.

When I started to prepare the introduction to my first book, The Golden Age of the Spanish Dance, I mentally hesitated. I expected to write about these acknowledged early artists from the viewpoint of an outsider looking into history. However, it became apparent to me that I had to fill gaps and include my thoughts, opinions, and observations within the historical storyline. This second book, Legends of Spanish & Flamenco Dance, includes individual encounters with Pilar Lopez and her stories about her sister La Argentinita and the artists that performed in their company. Then studying with Rosario Perez and meeting with Antonio Ruiz Soler added more history to the pages. Many dancers who crossed paths with these icons of dance are included in this chronology of Spanish dance. I originally arrived in Madrid to study Spanish dance, but I became so fascinated by my teachers and began making notes and asking questions with the idea of authoring books on the Spanish dance.

"The New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. His radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly imaginative ballets made him a legend. Yet, Balanchine's life was as dramatic as his art, coinciding with some of the biggest historical events of his time. Born in Russia under the last Czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, World War II, exile, and the Cold War. He co-founded the New York City Ballet and revolutionized dance in America, pressing it to the forefront of modernism and making it serious and popular art. A man of many muses, Balanchine was married five times and consumed by other loves in between. Both the passions that animated him and the difficulties of his life--personal losses, bouts of ill health, and dark moods of despair--resonate in his more than 100 ballets, which speak of love, loss, mortality, and the transformative power of art. Nearly forty years after his death the full scale of Balanchine's achievement remains unexplored. Jennifer Homans, who studied with Balanchine and has had unprecedented access to his papers and many of those who knew him, has researched every facet of Balanchine's life and times. As much a biography as a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists, Mr. B is the definitive biography by ballet's definitive writer"--

Both a biography and a history, this book explores the significant role that Indian dancer Ram Gopal (1912-2003) played in bringing Indian dance to international audiences from the 1930s to the late 1960s. Almost single-handedly, Gopal changed the perception of Indian dance abroad, introducing a global audience to specificity of movement, classically trained dancers, live musicians and exquisitely detailed costumes, modelled from Indian iconography. In this much-needed study of an often-neglected figure, the author unearths a fascinating narrative about Ram Gopal, the individual and the dancer, drawing on interviews with his remaining family, costume-makers, friends, dance partners, fellow dancers and audience members. More broadly, we come to understand the culture of Indian dance at the time, including the politics of the nomenclature and of the nationalist and orientalist discourses, the rapid changes created by the demise of colonialism and the influence of Western styles of dance, such as ballet and modern, in its development.

Brilliantly curated and beautifully illustrated, the Welcome to the Arts series offers all-hours admission to some of the world's most wondrous performances. From Swan Lake to Riverdance, flamenco to tap, Dance features some of the most iconic performances and popular dances from around the world.

Balletlibrettoen bygger på forfatteren og filosoffen Søren Kierkegaards (1813-1855) kendte og elskede dagbogsdrama ”Forførerens Dagbog”, der er fra første del af hans hovedværk ”Enten-Eller” (1843), hvor han har anvendt biografisk stof fra sin og Regine Olsens kærlighedshistorie.Det er Johannes, der er hovedpersonen i dagbogen. Han er æstetiker, et nydelsesmenneske, der har den fri naturs gud, jomfruen Diana, som ideal. Unge jomfruer er målet for hans jagt, eller som det står i ”Forførerens Dagbog” med et citat fra Leporellos listearie fra Mozarts opera ”Don Giovanni”: ”Den friske unge pige”. Dagbogen er en fortælling om Johannes' forførelse af den unge pige, Cordelia Wahl, som han efter forførelsen forlader, fordi hun, som han skriver i et notat i dagbogen, har ”tabt duften”.Balletlibrettoen er i ni billeder og med musik af Mozart. Det er forfatteren og filosoffen, mag.art. Jens Staubrand, der har bearbejdet det kendte kærlighedsdrama til en ballet.

Anna Harsh, dancer and Italian American takes a trip to Italy with her mother and brother as a child that sets her on a path which changes her life forever.The Italian Dance Quest is a travel memoir of an adventure that has made a lasting impact on the life of this Italian-American dancer. Be immersed into five different regions through dances that reflect the people, food, and history. Anna offers various ways to preserve and enjoy physical history so that the next generation can enjoy them in the future. You'll also discover:How learning Italian dances teaches unique life lessons.How to apply different choreography tips to elevate dance performance.Why royalty danced in northern Italy and what stories the traditional dances told.Her quest to find traditional Italian dances, creates more questions about her own life. Travel to various regions with Anna as she learns elegant circle dances that require grace, proper posture and precision. She compares them to the various lively tarantellas she adores. Gaining a deeper understanding of how Italian families celebrate and deal with grief left Anna asking how can she preserve these precious dances for future generations.

The gripping tales in Alonso's "Distractions" reflect an attention to detail which ushers each through a graceful and credible telling. Relationships blossom and crumble, except in rare instances of mutual acknowledgement and respect. There are characters well worth our empathy, and surely those that rate sympathy, while others perfectly merit our undiluted loathing. What's important is they all grab our interest, even the dour old aunt who, in one tale, poses for a memorable portrait: "Listening to her is like opening a closet full of dead people's shoes." Nina Rubinstein Alonso is a poet and lifelong devotee and practitioner of ballet, the art and discipline of which are implicit in these intimate excursions on the highways and byways of memory. - Tomas O'Leary