Books - May 2007
Anarchic Dance, published 27 Jan 2006
“stamped with Liz and Billy’s signature blend of quirky-humoured poetry and askew beauty.” (Donald Hutera)
Anarchic dance is a new book and DVD-ROM about the work of Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre.
In photographs, film and prose it provides a textual and visual record of the dance-theatre, cabaret, live art, dance for camera and screen dance installations produced over their 25 year partnership.
The DVD-Rom features extracts from Aggiss and Cowie's work, including the highly-acclaimed dance film Motion Control (first premiered on BBC2 in 2002), rare video footage of their punk-comic live performances as The Wild Wigglers and reconstructions of Aggiss's solo performance in Grotesque Dancer.
These films are cross-referenced in the book, allowing readers to match performance and commentary as Aggiss and Cowie invite a broad range of writers to examine their live performance and dance screen work through analysis, theory, discussion and personal response.
As much as their practice is hybrid, maverick and hard to define, the various theories presented are equally challenging, lively and fresh. Extensively illustrated with black and white and colour photographs, this beautiful multi-media package is both readable from cover to cover and eminently dippable.
A must have for every college/university library, for practitioners, teachers and writers, and for live art enthusiasts.
Anarchic Dance is published by Routledge on 27 January 2006. Paperback £29.99 (Pb 0-415-36517-1)
hardback £70 (Pb 0-415-36516-3). To order call 44 (0)1264 343071 or email book.orders@routledge.co.uk
Notes:
For a review copy of Anarchic Dance, please email tom.church@routledge.co.uk
Anarchic Dance is written by Aggiss and Cowie with Ian Bramley
Background information, downloadable images, film clips and technical details of all Aggiss and Cowie’s work, including Anarchic Dance can be found at www.anarchicdance.com
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Dance on Screen:
Genres and Media From Hollywood to Experimental Art
Sherril Dodds
Palgrave Paperback 2004
ISBN: 1403941459
Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyzes a selection of case studies from the popular dance imagery of music video and Hollywood, through to experimental art dance. The focus then turns to video dance, dance originally choreographed for the camera. Video dance can be seen as a hybrid in which the theoretical and aesthetic boundaries of dance and television are traversed and disrupted. The paperback edit
ion includes a Foreword by Bob Lockyer and a new Preface by the author covering key developments since the hardback edition was published in 2001.
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Printed: 144 pages, 9" x 7", perfect binding, 80# white interior paper, full-colour interior ink , 100# white exterior paper, full-colour exterior ink
ISBN: 978-0-9555-8340-7
Publisher: Goat Media Ltd
Copyright: © 2007 Goat Media Ltd
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Edition: First
Paperback book :£50.00
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A new book by Katrina McPherson out now.
Making Video Dance is the first workbook to follow the entire process of video dance production: from having an idea, through to choreographing for the screen, filming and editing, and distribution. In doing so, it explores and analyses the creative, practical, technical and aesthetic issues that arise when making video dance.
Making Video Dance - a step by step guide to creating dance for the screen, published by Routledge, available in both soft and hardback can be purchased through any bookstore or ordered online either at Taylor and Francis or at Amazon.
Visit www.taylorandfrancis.co.uk to buy
Making Video Dance from anywhere in the world
UK customers can also visit the
Making Video Dance entry at www.amazon.co.uk
US customers can also visit the
Making Video Dance entry at www.amazon.com
MAKING VIDEO DANCE is an invaluable resource and source of inspiration for anyone whose imagination is captured by this exciting new art-form.
The author
Katrina McPherson is one of the first generation of truly hybrid video-dance artists. She draws on her own wide experience as a dancer and choreographer, an award-winning dance-film maker, her teaching and her first-hand knowledge of the world of video-dance to create this unique and fascinating work-book.
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Envisioning Dance on Film and Video_Edited by: Judy Mitoma, Dale Ann Stieber, Elizabeth Zimmer
Paperback Book
03 JUL 2003
ISBN 0415941717
Routledge
Fifty-three essays survey a broad range of film and video works from the perspectives of their creators - dance and media professionals. Many of these essays are illustrated with ninety-three photographs and a two hour DVD.
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