This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in Fr......more

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A Queer History of Flamenco offers a groundbreaking exploration of flamenco through the lenses of queer theory and cultu......more

Ask a Strictly star at the start of their journey what their goal is and the chances are they’ll say ’Getting to Blackpo......more

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decad......more

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decad......more

Performer, activist, and writer Jill Johnston was a major queer presence in the history of dance and 1970s feminism. She......more

An artistic material encounter with costumes from the archive of iconic British choreographer Lea Anderson. In Smitheree......more

The Kete royal dance, originating from the Ashanti people of Ghana, is a cultural treasure deeply rooted in the history ......more

Born in Japan and trained in Germany, dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1893-1961) achieved prominence in London befo......more

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The Dance and Opera Stage Manager’s Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginni......more

The Dance and Opera Stage Manager’s Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginni......more

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

How to bring consent practices to the classroom. This book explores consent as a foundational principle to guide practic......more

This book sheds light on the choreographic practice of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of p......more

What are the characteristics of contemporary circus? In what way does contemporary circus differ from theater, dance, an......more

Across dance genres, the rigors of training and performing can take a toll on a dancer’s mind and body, leading to injur......more

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

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of Black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance. Based ......more

We do politics in, through, and as bodies. All our political activity is inevitably corporeal. Parliamentary debates, pa......more

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

"Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum in 2024, this publication tells the story of......more

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

This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative proce......more

This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years. Johanna Kir......more

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experim......more

What is materiality in dance and performance? What role does the material play in the formation for the cultural memory ......more

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor presents the views and experiences of collaborators in other artists’ works. This book......more

How do filmmakers guide viewer attention through the frame using the movement of bodies on screen? What do they seek to ......more

How do filmmakers guide viewer attention through the frame using the movement of bodies on screen? What do they seek to ......more

This book shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz alte......more

Performing the Greek Crisis explores the impact of the Greek financial crisis (2009-19) on the performing arts sector in......more

Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships documents the emergence of new forms of black social and vernac......more

Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships documents the emergence of new forms of black social and vernac......more

This publication brings together current scholarship that focuses on the significance of performing arts heritage of roy......more

This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring ......more

This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring ......more

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

The first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek women’s dance - Ferghana, Khiva and ......more

The first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek women’s dance - Ferghana, Khiva and ......more

The dynamic history of the innovative, beloved, and critically acclaimed dance theater company, with revelatory behind-t......more

The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait ......more

The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait ......more

A complete history of ballet in Minnesota by a professional dancer and creative force in the Twin Cities artistic commun......more

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This book provides a critical understanding of dance studies in India, bringing together various embodied practices iden......more

Geographies of Us is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics....more

This book is a practical and theoretical exploration of the embodied imagining processes of devised performance in which......more

This book is a practical and theoretical exploration of the embodied imagining processes of devised performance in which......more

Dance Production: Design and Technology, Second Edition is an introduction to the skills needed to plan, design, and exe......more

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Balletomane means an ardent admirer of ballet. This book, by a true ballet historian and revered critic, covers the hist......more

’Prodigy Performance’ provides guidance for aspiring dancers, emphasizing the importance of mindset, goal-setting, posit......more

A collection of the New Yorker critic’s finest essays, which examine the books that reveal and record our world. Joan Ac......more

A Black dancer chronicles her career as a scholar writing the stories of global hip-hop and Black culture Dancing the Af......more

"Both a biography and a history, this book explores the significant role that Indian dancer Ram Gopal (1912-2003) played......more

"Both a biography and a history, this book explores the significant role that Indian dancer Ram Gopal (1912-2003) played......more

Social Foxtrot is a ballroom dance to be embraced and enjoyed by all, irrespective of age, ability, or experience. This ......more

A practical guide for learning the leader’s part of the swing dance known as Lindy Hop. Includes information on swing mu......more

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Month ......more

BEING WORK is a collection of essays by dance and theater artists that offer access to varied experiences of performing ......more

This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehal......more

Aesthetic Collectives works to name, describe, and analyse the notion of collectivity in performance....more

Theatre and the Virtual lays out a set of conceptual instruments for the articulation and engendering of the forces of t......more

Jean-Gaspard Deburau analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Théâtre des......more

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the art of dance and explores what ......more

Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to-implement, techni......more

The moral dangers of the too common and too fashionable amusements of dancing are pointed out, with as much force as cle......more

From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key fa......more

From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key fa......more

Travel through a timeline of rhythm and motion, engaging with different examples of how the skills learnt through dance ......more

The Art of Movement: Rudolf Laban’s Unpublished Writings offers new perspectives on the thinking and practice of Rudolf ......more

This edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world. Disab......more