Dance & Other Performing Arts

This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspe...

Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance. Animals...

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...

Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authors...

Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives presents the work of dance scholars whose professional fieldwork spans several continents and includes st...

This comprehensive book will serve as a step-by-step guide to Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, updating and expanding concepts and practices. F...

In this ceaselessly questioning book, acclaimed African American dancer, choreographer, and director Bill T. Jones reflects on his art and life as ...

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This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to a...

Fiona O Loughlin is certainly the funniest (and possibly one of the busiest) working mothers in Australia today: a stand-up comedian based in Alice...

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 Shak...

Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of ...

This volume of essays combines research from neuroscience, conscious studies, methods of training performers, modes of creating a staged narrative,...

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...