Dance & Other Performing Arts

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!*Champion dancer and Strictly Come Dancing professional Johannes Radebe has captured our hearts with his mesme...

Drag may have been around for hundreds of years, but it's only in recent years that it's really hit the mainstream. Thanks in part to the phenomeno...

Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia offers an inclusive lens through which to study the music, dance, and allied arts of South Asia, its diaspor...

In Guinea’s capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate ...

Ballet is for some a passion, their love or obsession – a way of making a living perhaps. For others it is a pleasant evening out and for some it i...

New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a new essay collection that is equal parts thoughtf...

Kicking Sawdust is a series of photos taken from 1988-1992 while on the road with the circus, carnival, sideshows. It is a personal documentation o...

Corps de ballet literally means the "body" of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group...

From New York Times bestselling author of The French Photographer'A glamorous, transporting read' Woman's Weekly . . .IN 1920s NEW YORK, EVERYONE I...

This book of highly original essays addresses the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology. It is based in m...

From the late 19th to the early 21st centuries, female impersonation was a hugely popular performance genre. Long before today's popular television...

"A master at engaging students in the process of performing a Shakespearescene."—Janet Field-Pickering, head of education, Folger Shakespeare Libra...

For fans of Really Good Actually and I'm Glad My Mom Died'Moving, hilarious and generally astonishing' - Guardian'The most fun a reader can have th...

An Indie Next Pick for July 2017 "7 Best Books of July," Men's Journal "10 Titles to Pick Up Now," O, The Oprah Magazine "Most Anticipated Books of...

A three-part accidental trilogy of performances about high art and celebrity and our increasingly tenuous grip on reality in the 21st century. Kou...

"Part lyrical narrative, part bluesy riff, part schoolyard chant and part holy incantation" — New York Times Lucy Negro, Redux, uses the lens of S...

Meet Leela: nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken. With her sharp wit and stubborn optimism, she is the best paid bar dancer on Bombay's n...

Richard Pochinko (1946–89) played a pioneering role in North American clown theater through the creation of an original pedagogy synthesizing moder...

An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and ...

A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authorit...

  An innovative exploration of understanding through dance, Dancing across the Page draws on the frameworks of phenomenology, feminism, and postmod...

This anthology negotiates the influential, yet silent educational presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement dance education i...

Western contemporary dance and body-mind education have engaged in a pas de deux for more than four decades. The rich interchange of somatics and d...

The Audience Experience identifies a momentous change in what it means to be part of an audience for a live arts performance. Together, new communi...

A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy   Mel Brooks, born Me...

Dance educators in higher education have a long history of enriching the lives of others through community-based teaching, choreography, research,...

Focus on World Festivals: Contemporary case studies and perspectives provides the reader with a contemporary overview of festival activity from aro...