Dance & Other Performing Arts

The untold history of the extraordinary women who drove the modern dance movement and changed cultural narratives about sex, power and women's righ...

A celebration of the legendary comedy duo of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy through collectibles and memorabilia, this definitive (and humorous) book...

Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies,...

Worlds of the Ring is a groundbreaking exploration of the interwar European circus scene, focusing on the German Sarrasani and British Bertram W. M...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's operas cover a significant period of French historyfrom the Restoration, through the July Monarchy and the Second Re...

Unnayi Warrier's 'Nala Charitham' is easily the most popular Kathakali dance drama. With themes including romance, troubled royalty, treachery, ban...

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...

Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 is a ground-breaking anthology that collects twenty original writings that elucidate critically ...

Comprehending Cinema is a collection of in-depth interviews and panoramic essays that models a generalist approach to modern audiovisual media, pri...

Comprehending Cinema is a collection of in-depth interviews and panoramic essays that models a generalist approach to modern audiovisual media, pri...

How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance? This book presents a framework for dance practitioners and researchers working in di...

Cocktails and romantic comedies have a lot in commontheyre delightfully indulgent, and the good ones will be perennial classics. Sleepless in Sangr...

This handbook tackles the understudied relationship between music and comedy cinema by analysing the nature, perception, and function of music from...

This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on...

Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage ...

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. Th...

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This...

Dance is an activity that everyone can enjoy, and Dance Appreciation will help students do just that.Dance Appreciation is written to encompass the...

Heralded as the father of Indian Creative Dance, and Indias cultural ambassador, Uday Shankar (19001977) was a dancer and choreographer who created...

In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is perfo...

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre. The discussions in this book borrow from the literature on dementias represe...

What are the barriers to womens participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era?In this book, Ellie Tomsett ...

Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatric...