Dance & Other Performing Arts

Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myri...

Almost 25 years have passed since Gilmore Girls first hit our TV screens, but the iconic show continues to captivate audiences with its warmth, hum...

The Art of Dying: 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying examines how contemporary media platforms are used to produce creative accounts, respo...

How many eggs have been broken in the making of this programme? What is the worst thing Alex has eaten? Are you more likely to win Taskmaster if yo...

Rainbow Cattle Co. tells the story of gay rodeo as an overlooked and important part of the LGBTQ liberation movement. Nicholas Villanueva, Jr., arg...

In a rich, diversified and international career, Carla Blank has been dramaturge, choreographer, stage director, writer, art and architecture criti...

Site-specific expressive ecologies sustain Korean folk culture in a globalizing world /> />The madang is a key space and concept for Korean d...

Site-specific expressive ecologies sustain Korean folk culture in a globalizing world /> />The madang is a key space and concept for Korean d...

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Eccentric Laughter explores new ways to watch postwar British film comedies, arguing that their representations of eccentricity offered a set of po...

This collection presents a selection of essays written from a point of view that has dance, movement, or performance at its centre, and examines th...

Can you dissolve a coin, defy gravity or read someone's mind? Learn how to perform the greatest magic tricks around and astound your friends and fa...

Following her 2021 bestselling memoir Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her comes the laugh out loud follow-up Hexy B*tch.'My life's changed a lot ...

A modern Christmas classic, Elf burst onto cinema screens over 20 years ago and has been charming people ever since. In 2003, Buddy the Elf went on...

This book explores the process of improvisation and outlines the ideal conditions for an inspirational creative state. Examining her own process as...

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Calling all Ghosts fans! This is the ultimate celebratory gift book for all of you in desperate need of another Ghosts fix, complete with in-depth ...

Alexei Ratmansky is transforming ballet for the twenty-first century. An artist of daring imagination, the choreographer has created breathtakingly...

THE UTOPIAN GLOBALISTS Crossing continents, historical periods and cultural genres, Jonathan Harris skilfully traces the evolution of utopian ideal...

PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS David Daviess Philosophy of the Performing Arts is long-awaited. Not since Paul Thoms For an Audience has a book ...

Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with pla...

PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS David Daviess Philosophy of the Performing Arts is long-awaited. Not since Paul Thoms For an Audience has a book ...

This book develops a model to examine the language of humour, which is multimodal and accounts for the possibility of transmutation of humour as it...

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the fi...

The movement of Mohiniyattam dance is a rich semeiotic system that is inclusive of controversy, embodied gender ideals, and cultural information. T...