Dance & Other Performing Arts

When someone says "Cowgirl Up!" it means rise to the occasion, don't give up, and do it all without whining or complaining. And the cowgirls of th...

These days it takes a very special vampire movie to stand out. Like Twilight, the Swedish film Let the Right One In is a love story between a hum...

This study explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theaters, film festivals, and film archives and situating film-curating...

Responding to recent evolutions in the fields of dance and religious and secular studies, The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance documents and...

'Terrific. So funny' Zadie Smith 'Monstrously depressing but so comic and well observed that I didn't really mind .... It is great' Dolly Aldert...

What does a musical theatre choreographer actually do? They just 'make up the steps', right? This book firstly debunks the misunderstandings around...

In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the first full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas explores the experie...

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.Ida Rubin...

Packed with joyful scenes showing Lunar New Year being celebrated in different countries around the world, from dragon dancers and delicious food t...

The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vi...

Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical ideas behind them--that will astound even the ...

Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals? 'Beautiful, difficult, and compelling.' VANITY FAIR 'Don’t think, dear,' said Balanchine. 'Ju...

This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the Europ...

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volum...

An unputdownable tale of obsession, jealousy and heartache against the backdrop of WW2 May 1945 and at long last, Rosamund Caradon is feeling opti...

He talks about going to Switzerland, to that place where you pay them to kill you… And I say “go! It’ll do you good. Broaden your horizons…you’ve n...

Unleash your inner math diva.Join sensational drag queen Kyne Santos on an extraordinary journey through the glamorous world of . . . math? This sa...

A new contribution to studies in choreography, Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance focuses upon language and writing-based appro...

Simple, accessible spells and rituals for the modern woman who wants to stop wishing for a better life and start magically manifesting it - right n...

What happens when Broadway goes abroad? Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad offers a look at how the Broadway musical travels the w...

Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this vo...

Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, pract...