How to Dress Dancers

by Mary Kent Harrison

Geared for costuming dancers, this book includes more than 400 line drawings that demonstrate how to make a costume from a sketch rather than a pattern.

How to Dress Dancers

Author: Mary Kent Harrison

Publisher: Princeton Book Company Pub

ISBN: 9780871272089

Page: 144

View: 334

Geared for costuming dancers, this book includes more than 400 line drawings that demonstrate how to make a costume from a sketch rather than a pattern. Detailed instructions for making classical and romantic tutus, bodices, blouses, costumes for men, tights, leotards and skirts are presented, along with designs for character, national, and period costumes. Directions for headdresses, props, decorations, and ornaments are also included.

How to Dress Dancers

by Mary Kent Harrison

This well-illustrated book shows how to start making costumes for dancers.

How to Dress Dancers

Author: Mary Kent Harrison

Publisher: Dance Books Limited

ISBN: 9781852730666

Page: 143

View: 869

Costumes for dancers have exacting requirements. They have to look the part but let the dancers move freely. They need to be strong enough to cope with the wear and tear of performances and stresses that dance can place on seams and darts, and yet be light enough to flow well and to allow the dancer to move and breathe. This well-illustrated book shows how to start making costumes for dancers. The author looks at different styles, cuts and materials that can be used, and shows how costume sketches can be translated into actual garments to suit the dancer's needs.

Sticker Dolly Dressing Dancers

by Fiona Watt

From street dance to samba, ballroom to ballet, use the stickers in this fantastic book to dress the dolls in lots of different clothes for dancing.

Sticker Dolly Dressing Dancers

Author: Fiona Watt

Publisher: Usborne Pub Limited

ISBN: 9780794529314

Page: 24

View: 835

From street dance to samba, ballroom to ballet, use the stickers in this fantastic book to dress the dolls in lots of different clothes for dancing.

Irish Dancing Costume

by Martha Robb

Irish dancing costume evolved from the Celtic Revival aspiration to a distinctive national Irish dress.

Irish Dancing Costume

Author: Martha Robb

Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub

ISBN: 9780946172603

Page: 47

View: 189

Irish dancing costume evolved from the Celtic Revival aspiration to a distinctive national Irish dress. Inspired by what was known or believed about medieval and ancient Gaelic dress, costumes reflecting Ireland's glorious past were invented and made with Irish textiles. At the height of the Revival, some Irish nationalists wore Irish costume on special occasions, such as Gaelic League's Oireachtas exhibitions. Alongside the new interest in national costume, Irish dancing was being revived, and before long it became customary to wear distinctively Irish costumes for dancing, especially in competition. In the past two to three decades, Irish dancing costume evolved rapidly, culminating in the elaborate and heavily embroidered, appliqued and decorated costumes that are popular with dancers today. The latest influence on Irish dancing costume is Riverdance, which inspires a shorter, lighter style.

Dance Dress Desire

by Tania Nicole Hammidi

I look at the costumes of drag kings in contemporary drag king cabaret and at women's prison uniforms in the context of federal incarceration as material sites where dress, desire, and dance come together in U.S. statecrafting.

Dance Dress Desire

Author: Tania Nicole Hammidi

Publisher:

ISBN: 9781124400105

Page: 208

View: 212

In this dissertation, I make an argument for the inclusion of a more rugged critical approach to costume in performance, focusing on contemporary drag king performance as a genre. I make the argument that clothing fundamentally effects choreography. I further suggest that dance studies provides a fertile ground for recognizing and interpreting kinging as a physical practice, even while LGBTIQ dancers, choreographers, and performers continue to confront the homo- and trans- phobias of the dance industry and linked scholarship produced to interpret dance. Forwarding a notion of "the dressing, dancing body" as a response to humanist conceptions of "the fleshy body" as a unified, biologically-based entity, I challenge the homo- and trans-phobia of the industry and of normative dance scholarship by providing an intimate, scavenger, and multi-sensual methodology for approaching costume in performance. This gesture transgresses the stable boundaries of interpretation and subject-object relations at its core, queering conventional scholarship and invoking desire, feelings, imagination, texture, sound, and ornamentation into the formula of knowledge production. I look at the costumes of drag kings in contemporary drag king cabaret and at women's prison uniforms in the context of federal incarceration as material sites where dress, desire, and dance come together in U.S. statecrafting. What brings these two seemingly disparate subjects together - drag kinging and prison wear - is their common enemy: a violent state praxis designed to corporealize normative U.S. citizenship by controlling the dress and movements of all bodies. I foreground the centrality of the sartorial in the subject-formation of drag kings and female political prisoners, as a strategy for accounting for kinging's exclusions from normative dance on the one hand, and for exposing how the U.S. State historically invests in dress policy and enforcement. Finally, drawing out a theory of sound and drag king subject formation and of "sonic rub" of drag king costumes as they touch the performing body, this dissertation in its repose offers a critical approach to drag kings attentive to embodiment, costume, and the sonic home-base of the drag king performance.

A Day in the Life of a Ballet Dancer

by Diana Herweck

Each book in 8142--TIME For Kids Nonfiction Readers: Fluent Kit is available in a set of six.For add-on purchases, each 6-pack includes 6 copies of this title and a lesson plan, packaged in a self-sealing vinyl bag.Word Count: 824TCM ...

A Day in the Life of a Ballet Dancer

Author: Diana Herweck

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

ISBN: 9780743989411

Page: 24

View: 787

Each book in 8142--TIME For Kids Nonfiction Readers: Fluent Kit is available in a set of six.For add-on purchases, each 6-pack includes 6 copies of this title and a lesson plan, packaged in a self-sealing vinyl bag.Word Count: 824TCM (Teacher Created Materials) Level: 3.0Guided Reading Level: MEarly Intervention Level: 21DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment) Level: 30

Inspired to Dance

by Mande Dagenais

Everything You Need to Know about Becoming a Professional Dancer Without Breaking a ... You need this key information in order to determine how to dress, ...

Inspired to Dance

Author: Mande Dagenais

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 1450201830

Page: 260

View: 846

Details the entire process of how to become a dancer. Based on more than twenty-five years of experience in the performing arts as a dancer, teacher, choreographer, director, and producer, Mande shares her vast knowledge and experience. This definitive and comprehensive guide teaches the ins and outs of show business: how to get the most out of your training; audition dos and don'ts; where and how to find work; managing the business aspect of your talent; how to sustain longevity in your career.--Publisher's description.

Theory and Practice in Eighteenth Century Dance

by Tilden Russell

It is concerned primarily with knowing how to dress appropriately to one's station and the circumstances of the dance event (Taubert, pp.

Theory and Practice in Eighteenth Century Dance

Author: Tilden Russell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 1611496624

Page: 250

View: 978

During the first two decades of the eighteenth century, two evolving dance-historical realms intersected—theory and practice. While the French produced works on notation, choreography, and repertoire, German dance writers responded with an important body of work on dance theory. This book examines the reception of French dance in Germany.

The Fashionable Dancer s Casket Or The Ball room Instructor

by Charles Durang

This reproduction of a famous nineteenth-century guide to Civil War dance includes illustrations and step-by-step instructions that are perfect for the modern reenact, historian, or anyone who is interested in the history of dance.

The Fashionable Dancer s Casket Or The Ball room Instructor

Author: Charles Durang

Publisher: Applewood Books

ISBN: 1557094446

Page: 192

View: 319

This reproduction of a famous nineteenth-century guide to Civil War dance includes illustrations and step-by-step instructions that are perfect for the modern reenact, historian, or anyone who is interested in the history of dance.

The Dancer Dress Coloring Book for Girls

by Roaa Coloring Book

The dancer coloring book for girls contain: - the first page which your princess write her name on it . - the second page which your princess put her photo and write her age, class, and hobbies . - the third page its as a guide to girl ...

The Dancer Dress Coloring Book for Girls

Author: Roaa Coloring Book

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 86

View: 914

The dancer dress coloring book for girls .. its amazing coloring book with awesome of fourty dancers pictures, and your beautiful princess should use her imagination to colour dancers dresses and make a ttractive art . The dancer coloring book for girls contain: - the first page which your princess write her name on it . - the second page which your princess put her photo and write her age, class, and hobbies . - the third page its as a guide to girl about the book from author . - then fourty pictures of dancers and every page of picture followed with empty page to protect dancer pictures from effect of colours . The dancer dress coloring book for girls is a very suitable and special gift for your daughter or your friend, it makes girl use her imagination and her special touch to make a unique colorful dresses and encourge her to be more creative . Don't late to happy your princess ♥

Dance

by Carol Wallace

In this book, published to coincide with an exhibition held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art under the direction of Diana Vreeland, four authors look at the subject of social dancing from four different points of ...

Dance

Author: Carol Wallace

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

ISBN: 0870994867

Page: 128

View: 546

The Algonquin

by Richard Gaines

The female Traditional Dancer wears a long buckskin dress with fancy beads. The Shawl Dancer dresses and dances like the male Fancy Dancer.

The Algonquin

Author: Richard Gaines

Publisher: ABDO

ISBN: 9781577653837

Page: 32

View: 255

Presents a brief introduction to the Algonquin Indians, including information on their homes, society, food, clothing, family life, and life today.

Egyptian Belly Dance in Transition

by Heather D. Ward

The mid–nineteenth century witnessed several changes in middle- and upper-class Egyptian women's dress. Dancers adopted some of these changes, ...

Egyptian Belly Dance in Transition

Author: Heather D. Ward

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 1476629633

Page: 220

View: 556

Raqs sharqi, the Egyptian dance form also known as belly dance, has for generations captured imaginations around the globe. Yet its origins have been obscured by misinformation and conjecture, rooted in Orientalist attitudes about the Middle East--a widely accepted narrative suggests the dance was created in response to Western influences and desires. Drawing on an array of primary sources, the author traces the early development of raqs sharqi in the context of contemporary trends in Egyptian arts and entertainment. The dance is revealed to be a hybrid cultural expression, emerging with the formation of Egyptian national identity at the end of the 19th century, when Egypt was occupied by the British.

Before They Were Belly Dancers

by Kathleen W. Fraser

Danse d'Almées, à Sihout, d'après un croquis de M. Stop(Dance of the Almées at Asyût, ... On their heads dancers wear simple caps of two different styles.

Before They Were Belly Dancers

Author: Kathleen W. Fraser

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 1476619166

Page: 308

View: 592

Focusing on Egypt during the period 1760 to 1870, this book fills in some of the historical blanks for a dance form often known today in the Middle East as raqs sharki or raqs baladi, and in Western countries as "belly dance." Eyewitness accounts written by European travelers, the major primary source for modern scholars, provide most of the research material. The author shapes these numerous accounts into a coherent whole, providing a picture of Egyptian female entertainers of the period as professionals in the arts, rather than as a group of unnamed "ethnic" dancers and singers. Analysis is given of the contexts of this dance--that was a legitimate performing art form in Egyptian society appreciated by a wide variety of audiences--with a focus on actual performances--and a re-creation of choreography.

Ballroom

by Jonathan S. Marion

Presenting the author's experiences at an international range of dance events in Europe, the US and UK, as well as featuring the views of individual dancers, the book shows how dancing influences mind and body alike.

Ballroom

Author: Jonathan S. Marion

Publisher: Berg

ISBN: 184788749X

Page: 224

View: 595

Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena: of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender and more. Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress and the body. Presenting the author's experiences at an international range of dance events in Europe, the US and UK, as well as featuring the views of individual dancers, the book shows how dancing influences mind and body alike. For students of anthropology, dance, cultural and performance studies, Ballroom provides an ethnographic picture of how dancers and others live their lives both on and off the dance floor.

Heartbeat of the People

by Tara Browner

The Jingle Dress Dance Women's Jingle Dress dancing is a special interest of mine , in large part because I was a Jingle Dress dancer for seven years .

Heartbeat of the People

Author: Tara Browner

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

ISBN: 9780252071867

Page: 200

View: 715

The intertribal pow-wow is the most widespread venue for traditional Indian music and dance in North America. Heartbeat of the People is an insider's journey into the dances and music, the traditions and regalia, and the functions and significance of these vital cultural events. Tara Browner focuses on the Northern pow-wow of the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes to investigate the underlying tribal and regional frameworks that reinforce personal tribal affiliations. Interviews with dancers and her own participation in pow-wow events and community provide fascinating on-the-ground accounts and provide detail to a rare ethnomusicological analysis of Northern music and dance.

A Day in the Life of a Ballet Dancer 6 Pack

by Diana Herweck

Leap into the world of a ballet dancer! In this engaging nonfiction book, readers learn about the history of this art form as well as what a ballet dancer does to get ready for a performance.

A Day in the Life of a Ballet Dancer 6 Pack

Author: Diana Herweck

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

ISBN: 1433338637

Page: 28

View: 741

Leap into the world of a ballet dancer! In this engaging nonfiction book, readers learn about the history of this art form as well as what a ballet dancer does to get ready for a performance. With informational text, vibrant photographs, a sample schedule of ballet dancer's day, a look at ballet positions, and simple, clear text, readers learn about the basics of ballet and that this beautiful art form takes a lot of hard work and dedication. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies

by Helen Thomas

I have sought to achieve a more integrated approach to clothing design and movement in the production of short dance and dress-based films that seek to ...

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies

Author: Helen Thomas

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1315306530

Page: 510

View: 482

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments. It locates these features both historically—within dance in particular social and cultural contexts—and in relation to other academic influences that have impinged on dance studies as a discipline. The editors use a thematically based approach that emphasizes that dance scholarship does not stand alone as a single entity, but is inevitably linked to other related fields, debates, and concerns. Authors from across continents have contributed chapters based on theoretical, methodological, ethnographic, and practice-based case studies, bringing together a wealth of expertise and insight to offer a study that is in-depth and wide-ranging. Ideal for scholars and upper-level students of dance and performance studies, The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies challenges the reader to expand their knowledge of this vibrant, exciting interdisciplinary field.