El baile flamenco es un disciplina poco estudiada hasta el momento. Hay textos sobre temas concretos y biografías de algunos nombres importantes, pero poco más. Faltaba una historia global del tema, la historia que nos diera informacion razonada y suficiente de todo lo ocurrido en tan bello arte, desde los tiempos de los miticos bailes de candil hasta ahora mismo. Los largos años que ha dedicado a la critica e investigacion, han permitido a Angel Alvarez Caballero llenar un importante vacio en la bibliografia flamenca. El baile flamenco, seña de identidad española en muchos paises donde se le conoce bien, y probablemente la faceta de lo jondo que mas se ha universalizado gracias a su enorme poder de fascinacion, se halla hoy en un momento sumamente interesante, en el que jovenes figuras exploran constantemente nuevos caminos de expresion que no son aceptados sin reparos por los mas ortodoxos. En cualquier caso es un mundo creativo en ebullicion, tremendamente actiVo y que sin duda tiene aun una muy larga historia por contar.
Martha Graham, the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer, revolutionized the world of modern dance. She possessed a great gift for revealing emotion through dance, expressing beliefs and telling stories in an utterly new way. Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman documents Martha Graham''s life from her birth in 1894 to her final dance performance at the age of seventy-five and continued career as a choreographer until her death in 1991. Graham''s own recollections as well as those of her dancers, students, friends, and lovers reveal Graham''s unwavering dedication, her extraordinary sense of artistry, and the fierce intensity that left an impression on all who saw her perform. Original research based on interviews and a remarkable collection of photographs not widely reproduced give this biography a rare and unparalleled depth. Includes notes,a bibliography, and an index. A photo-biography of the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who was born in Pittsburgh in 1895 and who became a leading figure in the world of modern dance. Freedman (Lincoln; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Roosevelt) once again animates American history through biography; here he adds culture to the mix as he chronicles the inspiring life of legendary dancer Martha Graham. The venerable author hooks readers in immediately with his description of young Martha learning to move her body by watching a lion pace from one side of its cage to the other. Freedman then seamlessly charts the fiery, passionate Graham''s rise from a 19-year-old "homely, overweight" dance student to principal dancer to teacher to the creator of modern dance. The biography points up Graham''s commitment to a "uniquely American style of dance," focusing on such works as Frontier, an homage to her ancestral roots, and Appalachian Spring, for which she collaborated with composer Aaron Copland. Freedman acknowledges that the dancer''s sources of inspiration and consolation came from other American artists: writer Emily Dickinson (the source of Graham''s work Acts of Light) and composer Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag was her last complete work), among them. Her passions were not circumscribed to her work; she also took stands on tough political issues, both in her dance (e.g., Deep Song, 1937, which &quo
El talento artístico y pedagógico de María Fux es bien conocido y apreciado, en el ámbito nacional e internacional, por su amplia y exitosa trayectoria en el campo de la danza y de la Danzaterapia. Ella sintió aquí la necesidad de presentarnos a sus alumnos, llamándolos por sus nombres y transcribiendo algunas de las palabras con que suelen expresar lo que la danza les produce.
Newly updated and lavishly illustrated, this classic celebration of female dancers of the Arab world is available in an appealing new format. "Serpent of the Nile" traces the origins of this ancient art, which survived in the face of commercialism, religious disapproval and changing times. Wendy Buonaventura demonstrates how Arabic dance came to be influenced by Western ideas about art and entertainment. But the influence was two-way. In the heyday of Orientalism, Arabic dance captured the imagination of writers and artists such as Flaubert, David Roberts and Jean-Leon Gerome, and imitators Colette and Mata Hari. Often based on common fantasies about Middle-Eastern women, this obsession produced evocative images and inspired fashion, theatre and popular entertainment.
Esta publicación rescata la figura de Sergéi Diaghilev (Novgorod, 1872- Venecia, 1929) a través de su compañía de danza, los Ballets Rusos, sin la cual no se podría entender el devenir de la danza en el siglo XX. Entre sus paginas se recorren los escenarios y eventos mas celebres que protagonizo la compañia en sus 20 años de existencia. Haciendo hincapie en sus musicas, vestuarios, escenarios y coreografias ideados por los mejores artistas de la vanguardia del momento. Matisse,Picasso, Braque, Derain, Goncharova, Laurencien o Chanel participaron en el diseño de vestuarios y escenografias, musicos renovadores como Ravel, Satie, Falla, Stravinski, Prokofiev, Rimski-Korsakov, bailarines como Fokine, Nijisnky, Paulova, Karsavina o Massine y escritores como Jean Cocteau trabajaron conjuntamente en este empeño, animados por Diaghilev.El exito de los Ballets Rusos, que nacieron en Paris en 1909 de una seleccion de los mejores bailarines del Ballet Imperial del TeatroMariinski de San Petesburgo, se caracterizo en la apuesta por la renovacion del lenguaje visual, tanto en la coreografia como en laescenografia, y del lenguaje musical.
