The sensational discovery of this work by Grazioso Cecchetti, son of the great Italian ballet master Enrico (1850-1928),......more

The sensational discovery of this work by Grazioso Cecchetti, son of the great Italian ballet master Enrico (1850-1928),......more

Choreographing Cambodia is an interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between geopolitics, embodiment, and post......more

Dissenting through Dance examines how femme activists in contemporary Turkey deploy folk dance as a powerful tool of pol......more

Dissenting through Dance examines how femme activists in contemporary Turkey deploy folk dance as a powerful tool of pol......more

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

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

The Anatomy of Art reconnects you with the creative current already moving through you. A choose-your-own-adventure for ......more

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

Revealing Merce Cunningham’s creative processes as inspiration for today’s dancers and choreographers In this book, form......more

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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

Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluatin......more

Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluatin......more

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

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

DanceSport’s Economy of Desire examines how the DanceSport dispositive shapes its actors’ opportunities, desires, and ch......more

First critical biography of this visionary artist written by a dance scholar Simone Forti, groundbreaking improvisor, ha......more

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Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts.......more

Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts.......more

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

For a long time, dance scholars and the public were hardly aware that modern dance existed in Russia. This book, however......more

Portraits of dancers rendered through reflective storytelling and exquisite photography, illustrating the varieties of i......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

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

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

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

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

Tracing the legacy of the man who preserved The Sleeping Beauty’s choreography, through the classic ballet’s evolution f......more

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

Movement plays a fundamental role in human life, shaping how we think, communicate, and engage with ourselves and our su......more

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

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

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

This new and comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities is also the first ......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

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

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

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

The age of humans has gotten increasingly loud in terms of literal sound and environmental impact. Recognising silence a......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

Since the Middle Passage, the intellectual and physical freedom of Black women in the United States and the Caribbean ha......more

Since the Middle Passage, the intellectual and physical freedom of Black women in the United States and the Caribbean ha......more

Shining a light on an understudied avenue of classical reception in the performing arts, this book considers how the lon......more

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

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

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

The Ballets Russes was one of the most influential performing arts companies of the twentieth century. In the years befo......more

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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

This book explores the most unique contemporary forms of Taiwanese dance theatre and the theatre of movement created by ......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

Dust off your dancing shoes and sharpen your pencil - the official Strictly Come Dancing Puzzle Book is here! From codes......more

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

The definitive illustrated volume on Roberto Bolle, a dancer who, for his perfect physique and great artistry, has been ......more

The volume examines popular sensibilities via textual, visual, performative, spatial, digital frames of inquiry and crit......more

A two part book reimagining dark matter and the dark Transtraterrestrial is an experimental book that documents Sage Ni’......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

Ballet dancers answer a calling that demands they become what they must become, a calling as clear, simple, and inevitab......more