Contemporary Dance

Every two years, on the occasion of the Made in L.A. biennial, the Hammer Museum honors artistic excellence by administering the Mohn Award to an a...

''Poetics of Contemporary Dance'' is a major reference work originally published in French. Its author, historian and critic Laurence Louppe, is re...

Ungoverning Dance examines the work of progressive contemporary dance artists in continental Europe from the mid 1990s to 2015. Placing this within...

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, howe...

The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques explores the multifaceted learning processes and underlying principles behind the technical sk...

Drawing on avant garde and classical Japanese dance traditions, the Alishina Method offers a systematized approach to Butoh dance training for the ...

Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American moder...

Whether you're an absolute beginner or a Strictly Come Dancing wannabe, it's time to get up and dance Craig Revel Horwood's Ballroom Dancing gives...

Beginning early in the 1980s, a dance music revolution swept across Europe and Britain, merging rock, new wave, disco and worldbeat sounds. The ...

Laban''s The Mastery of Movement on the Stage, first published in 1950, quickly came to be accepted as the standard work on his conception of human...