Dancer of Johannesburg
Author: Elechi Amadi
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13:
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The Marabi Dance
Author: Modikwe Dikobe
Publisher: Heinemann International Incorporated
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel of rare insight into the township life of Johannesburg. It tells the story of Martha, trapped between the pull of the country and the violent life with the dance-band groups.
Dancing the Death Drill
Author: Fred Khumalo
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2017-02-06
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1415209146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘Be quiet and be calm, my countrymen, for what is taking place is exactly what you came to do ... Brothers, we are drilling the death drill.’ – Reverend Isaac Wauchope Dyobha Paris, 1958. A skirmish in a world-famous restaurant leaves two men dead and the restaurant staff baffled. Why did the head waiter, a man who’s been living in France for many years, lunge at his patrons with a knife? As the man awaits trial, a journalist hounds his long-time friend, hoping to expose the true story behind this unprecedented act of violence. Gradually, the extraordinary story of Pitso Motaung, a young South African who volunteered to serve with the Allies in the First World War, emerges. Through a tragic twist of fate, Pitso found himself on board the ss Mendi, a ship that sank off the Isle of Wight in February 1917. More than six hundred of his countrymen, mostly black soldiers, lost their lives in a catastrophe that official history largely forgot. One particularly cruel moment from that day will remain etched in Pitso’s mind, resurfacing decades later to devastating effect. Dancing the Death Drill recounts the life of Pitso Motaung. It is a personal and political tale that spans continents and generations, moving from the battlefields of the Boer War to the front lines in France and beyond. With a captivating blend of pathos and humour, Fred Khumalo brings to life a historical event, honouring both those who perished in the disaster and those who survived.
Worlds of social dancing
Author: James Nott
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2022-03-22
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1526156245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the 1920s, much of the world was ‘dance mad,’ as dancers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Manchester to Johannesburg and from Chelyabinsk to Auckland, engaged in the Charleston, the foxtrot and a whole host of other fashionable dances. Worlds of social dancing examines how these dance cultures spread around the globe at this time and how they were altered to suit local tastes. As it looks at dance as a ‘social world’, the book explores the social and personal relationships established in encounters on dance floors on all continents. It also acknowledges the impact of radio and (sound) film as well as the contribution of dance teachers, musicians and other entertainment professionals to the making of the new dance culture.
Movements of Interweaving
Author: Gabriele Brandstetter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 1351128442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMovements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a global scale, it not only challenges the concept of intercultural dance performances, but through its innovative approach also calls attention to the specific qualities of "interweaving" as a form of movement itself. Divided into four sections, this volume features an international team of scholars together developing a new critical perspective on the cultural practices of movement, travel and migration in and beyond dance.
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
Author: Martha Bremser
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-09-22
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1134850182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa
Author: Ketu H. Katrak
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021-03-02
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0253053668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJay Pather, Performance and Spatial Politics in South Africa offers the first full-length monograph on the award-winning choreographer, theater director, curator, and creative artist in contemporary global performance. Working within the contexts of African studies, dance, theater, and performance, Ketu H. Katrak explores the extent of Pather's productive career but also places him and his work in the South African and global arts scene, where he is considered a visionary. Pather, a South African of Indian heritage, is known as a master of space, site, and location. Katrak examines how Pather's performance practices place him in the center of global trends that are interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, collaborative, and multimedia and that cross borders between dance, theater, visual art, and technology. Jay Pather, Performance and Spatial Politics in South Africa offers a vision of an artist who is strategically aware of the spatiality of human life, who understands the human body as the nation's collective history, and who is a symbol of hope and resilience after the trauma of violent segregation.
For the Love of Dance
Author: Dame Beryl Grey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 1041
ISBN-13: 1786820986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe autobiography of Dame Beryl Grey, now in paperback. Dame Beryl's life is defined by her love of dance. Both as a ballerina and an Artistic Director she helped make British ballet the powerhouse it is today. Knowing and working with virtually everyone in ballet, she reveals fascinating insights into the people, characters and institutions that made up world dance in the 20th century. Grey began her dancing career with the Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1943 at the unprecedented early age of 14. Her natural virtuosity saw her quickly promoted, dancing her first Giselle at 17, and Princess Aurora at 19. Dame Beryl was the first English ballerina to dance at the Bolshoi and the Kirov, as well as the Peking Ballet. Asked to become Artistic Director of what is now English National Ballet, her love of dance allowed her to navigate the tricky passage from ballerina to leader of a dance company. Over ten years she transformed that Company with new dancers, new ballets, a new home and new audiences. Based on her letters and diaries, For the Love of Dance is an extraordinary tale of an extraordinary woman and a life given to her first love - dance.
