Dance & Other Performing Arts

As an introduction to ballets history, culture, and meanings, this book draws on the latest ballet scholarship to describe the trajectory of a danc...

As an introduction to ballets history, culture, and meanings, this book draws on the latest ballet scholarship to describe the trajectory of a danc...

Beginning Modern Dance With HKPropel Access introduces undergraduate and high school students to modern dance as a performing art through participa...

While she is best remembered today as founder of the Philadelphia Ballet and the director and driving force behind the famous Littlefield School of...

In recent years, a growth in dance and wellbeing scholarship has resulted in new ways of thinking that place the body, movement, and dance in a cen...

Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere. Whether thrilling, chilling, or repellent to the listener, the reac...

What happens to contemporary dance costumes when the show is over and their surrounding legacy slips from view? How might costumes be mobilised tow...

Beginning Musical Theatre Dance With HKPropel Access introduces students to basic musical theatre dance techniques from a variety of genres, forms,...

'A clarion call to get up on the dance floor.' FINANCIAL TIMESWhy do we dance together? What does dancing tell us about ourselves, individually and...

This book provides insight into the relationship between embodied processes and products of remembering and belonging among British Bangladeshi wom...

Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, alongside examples of undergraduate research ...

Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, alongside examples of undergraduate research ...

This collection comprises a comprehensive overview of key themes, arguments, and practices central to the study and understanding of site-specific ...

This study analyzes the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily. Here, epic, farce, saints' lives, ban...

Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy...

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...

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic per...

 This volume reshapes a contemporary understanding of research in theatre and performance arts. Bringing together distinguished scholars from all o...

We have grown accustomed to the ubiquity of corporate influence in retail outlets, restaurants, and even higher education-but what happens when cor...

'That night, I'd survived my life flashing before me, with my dignity intact. Yes, this chaotic life has always been a gamble.... But what a gamble...

Born out of the cultural flamboyance and anxiety of the 1980s, They Live (1988) is a hallmark of John Carpenter's singular canon, combining the aes...