Dance & Other Performing Arts

Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new ...

'A beautifully crafted must read' Jason Mott, author of Hell of a Book A once-famous ballet dancer faces a devastating choice to return to the cu...

Plan out your whole day: two hours spent making snow angels, then ice skating, then eating a whole roll of cookie dough as fast as you can, and the...

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?Drawing on semiotic d...

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?Drawing on semiotic d...

SHEMP! THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE THREE STOOGES' SHEMP HOWARD, THE FACE OF FILM COMEDY

  There's a naughty Santa Claus out to sabotage Christmas! How can the real Santa expect boys and girls to be good when there ...

The book is a wide-ranging collection of essays on Indian classical dance, which include writings on dance appreciation, the criticism, theory and ...

This book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the 2020s. It explores de...

In his intimate memoir, legendary ballet dancer and entertainer Wayne Sleep looks back on the extraordinary times he's lived through. Wayne Sleep h...

Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg offers fascinating new looks at five classic story ballets: Giselle (1841), Paquita (1846), Le Corsaire ...

This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer...

Costumes are an integral part of any performance, adding believability, conveying setting, or establishing the tone, a fact that is no less true wh...

Since its emergence in the 1960s, salsa has transformed from a symbol of Nuyorican pride into an emblem of pan-Latinism and finally a form of globa...

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-rangingperspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluati...

First published in 2005. The Victorian and Edwardian music hall ballet has been a neglected facet of dance historiography, falling prey principally...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced o...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, danc...

This book explores Salome's quintessential veiled dance through readings of fictional and poetic texts, dramatic productions, dance performances an...

A biography that unveils the iconic life, innovative choreography, and enduring legacy of Astad Deboo, a pioneer of Indian modern dance.   Astad De...

A biography that unveils the iconic life, innovative choreography, and enduring legacy of Astad Deboo, a pioneer of Indian modern dance.   Astad De...

Dress as though your life depends on it, or dont bother.(Leigh Bowery, 1985)Outlaws dives into the anarchic energy of Londons 1980s club scene, cel...

Giant: 'This exciting book gives people behind-the-scenes secrets to all the nail-biting drama and thrilling action from the series.' Fir...

This accessible book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental...