Dance & Other Performing Arts

Dust off your dancing shoes, Strictly is back!Featuring exclusive interviews with the celebs, judges, presenters and pro dancers, fun quizzes to te...

Choreographing the North examines 11 contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore, and ideas of "North."The choreog...

The first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek women’s dance – Ferghana, Khiva and Bukhara – and their broader...

Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance. It weaves togeth...

This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular a...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Performer, activist, and writer Jill Johnston was a major queer presence in the history of dance and 1970s feminism. She was the first critic to id...

A New York Times bestseller.“My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Because it’s in the messes where we learn the most—as long as we...

'You're strong, you're a Kelly Clarkson song, you got this.'Everything that comes out of Jonathan Van Ness's mouth is a gift from god. He's the man...

The first official The Office holiday storybook–a new classic for fans of all ages!Spend “The Night Before Christmas” at Dunder Mifflin in this hil...

On choreography: ‘Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking.’On rules: ‘Try breaking the rules on a need to break the r...

On choreography: ‘Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking.’On rules: ‘Try breaking the rules on a need to break the r...

This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one’s own actions as a potential exper...

This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of comm...

‘Joan Rhodes’s story is a colourful tale, full of grit and glamour: the strongwoman who entertained on the streets and in front of royalty.’ – Kate...

This book examines three years of Beyoncé’s career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies.The book ...