Dance & Other Performing Arts

Performance uses the alphabet as an organizational device to present a series of short pieces that approach performance from multiple perspectives ...

Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols independent of language, ...

Involuntary Motion contributes to the study of refugee flight by using movement as a lens to explore problems in refugee performance and understand...

This book examines the political power of dance, particularly its transgressive potential. Focusing on readings of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan an...

Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel—these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and c...

The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts a...

Moving Otherwise examines how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires, Argentina enacted politics within climates of political and economic vi...

In A Singing Approach to Horn Playing, author and renowned teacher-musician Natalie Douglass Grana develops the fundamental sense of pitch that is ...

The proliferation of festivals across the world has given birth to a new academic field: festival studies. Before his premature death Dragan Klaic ...

Baroque between the Wars is a fascinating account of the arts in the twenties and thirties. We often think of this time as being dominated by moder...

Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols independent of language, ...

Grand Hotel. My One and Only. Nine. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The Will Rogers Follies. For tw...

In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ag...

This is a collection of works by internationally recognized women leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the globe. Building o...