Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement

by Gerald Jonas, Rhoda Grauer (Foreword)

An illustrated, international survey of the art of dance discusses the major theatrical dance traditions, as well as dance as a form of social, religious, and cultural expression, focusing on the relationship between dance and culture. TV tie-in.

Genres: Nonfiction, Art, School

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[isabelle! :))]

it’s a textbook BUT I DID READ IT ALL. COUNTED.

[Brett Marcus Cook]

How the fuck did this book not mention Pina Bausch even once?

[Rebecca]

Alright this is my text book for World Dance in the winter so this is probably the first of a couple of times through. I appreciate how it is thematically laid out but wonder if students will a. need more historical background to understand the cross-cultural comparisons Jonas is drawing and b. feel confused by the geographic and temporal shifts Jonas makes. We shall see. Great material though, engagingly written and beautiful photographs.

[Alexandra Silverstein]

learn about how different cultures use dance to communicate and a form of expression.

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Possibly one of the worst dance books I've ever read. It reads like a lecture and is rarely interesting. There is alot of comparison and contrast and the photos and the dance that you see and read about are somewhat interesting. However it is just uninspired and 95% of the timd boring. I really don't have much else to say about it and thats even sadder.

[Ilyse]

A beautiful book. Gets a little bogged down in the writing. Gleaned some great information for my FYS course.

[Yiwu]

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