Legal Moves engages in a project of epistemological disobedience, boldly suturing concepts of dance studies--kinesthetic......more

This volume provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the rich traditions of noh, classical Japanese dance-dr......more

On the visceral engagement of the body in musical performance, and how technological mediation can foster, or break, for......more

This volume provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the history of kabuki, Japan’s ’music-dance-drama’. It ......more

A choreographic manifesto for life in motion, offering new ways to navigate change and thrive amidst instability A seque......more

The Routledge Handbook of Music and Dance Performances in the Ancient Mediterranean: An Interpretive Approach brings tog......more

"A rich and lovely book. It brings forward Buddy Bradley with forthright care, wondering with thinkers and artists from ......more

An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literature The French dance criticism of the Russian émigré......more

A sweeping cultural history of the dancing that defined New York City Throughout the twentieth century, in theaters, bal......more

This anthology brings together a diverse array of perspectives and histories that weave together notions of Black-ness, ......more

What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression offers a new cultural his......more

This book is the first written history of the development of African dance in the UK covering the last sixty years of th......more

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Dancing as dialogue: a study of movement and place that explores the fundamental entanglement of humans and the environm......more

Dancing as dialogue: a study of movement and place that explores the fundamental entanglement of humans and the environm......more

This is the first book in English exploring the quadrille as danced among the Skolt Saami, one of the indigenous Saami p......more

Fully revised and updated, this third edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreog......more

Fully revised and updated, this third edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreog......more

This edited collection is compiled from the first MENACA (Middle East, North African, and Central Asian) Dance and Music......more

The Petersburg Noverre accounts for Marius Petipa’s ballets produced on the Russian stage between 1847 and 1910. It is o......more

"Opening a door into the rich world of modern dance." KIRKUS [STARRED REVIEW] "Refreshing." NEW STATESMAN "Compelling." ......more

Explores how researchers used systems for recording human movement to navigate the relationship between mind and body, f......more

Previously uncollected dance writings from the legendary art critic who defined the Pictures Generation, in a handsome c......more

Celebrating three decades of an iconic Berlin-based contemporary dance company Since 1993, the Berlin-based dance ensemb......more

Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media sheds light on a fascinating yet often overlooked phenomeno......more

Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media sheds light on a fascinating yet often overlooked phenomeno......more

This book offers a compelling intersectional exploration of how disability is understood in relation to citizenship and ......more

Ballet Practice and History is a complete, inclusive resource on ballet training and history for the beginning teen-adul......more

Care-full Creativity in Theatre and Dance Education: Consent-Forward, Trauma-Informed, Psychologically Safe Movement Ped......more

Care-full Creativity in Theatre and Dance Education: Consent-Forward, Trauma-Informed, Psychologically Safe Movement Ped......more

This book explores the relationship between peacebuilding and dance, including insights dance provides on key debates ar......more

A comprehensive guide to conducting, presenting, and publishing dance research. Dance research is an ever-growing field,......more

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that consolidates novel research and contemporary ana......more

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936-19......more

This book adapts a cultural-semiotic approach to analyze contemporary circus performances. It offers the first comprehen......more

Aerial Arts and Dance Improvisation is a comprehensive guide for developing creativity in aerial arts. It offers a fresh......more

What would happen if we were to understand arts projects through their capacity to care? Care Aesthetics and the Arts of......more

What would happen if we were to understand arts projects through their capacity to care? Care Aesthetics and the Arts of......more

This collection of essays focuses how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, p......more

Take your K-12 dance program to the next level. Core Teaching Practices for Dance Education With HKPropel Access is a pr......more

A candid look at how evergreen dancers sustain their craft, navigate aging, and challenge the dance world’s obsession wi......more

During the tumultuous years before the Civil War, Irish American John Diamond and African American William Henry Lane, k......more

This book delves into the embodiment of Chineseness in digital performance, utilising the innovative methodology of ’tec......more

This book analyzes gesture, ritual, and performance in flamenco and tauromaquia the extended definition of bullfighting ......more

This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the context of dance in India. It brings ......more

’Performance Research Methods’ is the first comprehensive guide to contemporary methodologies in performance studies, of......more

A feel-good fable and an enduring critique of conformity told with true John Waters flair. Tracy Turnblad, a spunky, ful......more

Practitioner Perspectives on Dance Research is a collection of accounts from scholars, educators, practitioners and make......more

Dust off your dancing shoes, Strictly is back! Featuring exclusive interviews with the celebs, judges, presenters and pr......more

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This book is the second edition of the practical guide for learning the leader’s part of the Argentine Tango, expanded w......more

VASLAV NIJINSKY, the greatest male dancer of all time, had a meteoric career, which lasted in all just ten years and end......more

This book is a collection of essays by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves r......more

Learn to observe, teach, and analyze human movement. The second edition of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies: Contempora......more

Much has been written about Nijinsky and the Ballet Russe on both sides of the Atlantic, not to mention the rest of the ......more

This book explores video annotation as a reflective, analytic, organisational, and publishing tool for performance schol......more

Renowned portrait photographer Mark Mann documents an impressive host of dancers--their eloquent bodies in posed tranqui......more

For Blacks and other people of color, finding ways to address suffering organically is key. In these communities, cancer......more

In Knowing as Moving, Susan Leigh Foster theorizes how the act of moving in and through the world creates the potential ......more

In Knowing as Moving, Susan Leigh Foster theorizes how the act of moving in and through the world creates the potential ......more

Dance is a non-verbal art form, often subject to the interpretation of the viewer. The Vision of Modern Dance is the mov......more

This book examines a creative approach to exploring choreographic practice artistically, theoretically, and pedagogicall......more

The most effective way to excel in dance is to first forge the athlete, then rise above technique to ignite hearts. This......more

"This book presents an expansive study of Philadelphia’s significant contributions to early U.S. dance in the nineteenth......more

Through this book, Incredible Odisha, meticulously prepared by Dr. Sonali Sahu, an effective teacher in English and an e......more

Higher education continually mediates long standing traditions while seeking new ways of thinking, creating a quiet tens......more

The late 1920s and early 1930s were a pivotal moment in Russian cultural development: a time of uncertainty but also of ......more

A gorgeous, authoritative, and image-filled celebration of pageantry and community created by ballroom culture for Black......more

Kinaesthetic Empathy, Ethics and Care develops a philosophy of dance that highlights the psychological, aesthetic and et......more

Advances Felt Thinking, a mode of personal and environmental self-inquiry rooted in movement and nature. As forests burn......more

In The Voice of Dance, Callie Rich invites you to relive with her, three unforgettable months of movement, music & magic......more

How is music affected by its translation, interpretation and adaptation with, through, and by dance? How might notation ......more

"The Dance: Its Place In Art And Life" explores the rich history and cultural significance of dance throughout human civ......more

"The Dance: Its Place In Art And Life" explores the rich history and cultural significance of dance throughout human civ......more

"Technical Dictionary of Dancing" by Espinosa, originally published in 1922, is a comprehensive reference guide to the t......more