Dance & Other Performing Arts

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...

Richard Pochinko (194689) played a pioneering role in North American clown theater through the creation of an original pedagogy synthesizing modern...

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 authoritat...

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

David Weinberg argues that American experimental theater practice was a key factor in the development of the alternative theater movement in Britai...

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...

Chris Rock. Jamie Foxx. Steve Harvey. Dave Chappelle. Some of the biggest names in American entertainment today all appeared at Raymond Lambert's c...

A fascinating exploration of our reality through the eyes of a physicist and a dancerand an engaging introduction to both disciplines From stepping...

Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial l...