Dance

The Kete dance form, once exclusive to royal courts, carries intricate movements, symbolic gestures, and rhythms that mirror Ghanaian history and v...

Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myri...

This book sets out to search for the Second World — the (post)socialist context — in dance studies and examines the way it appears and reappears in...

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the fi...

The movement of Mohiniyattam dance is a rich semeiotic system that is inclusive of controversy, embodied gender ideals, and cultural information. T...

In Back to the Dance Itself, Sondra Fraleigh edits essays that illuminate how scholars apply a range of phenomenologies to explore questions of dan...

Throughout American history, patterns of political intent and impact have linked the wide range of dance movements performed in public places. Grou...

Throughout American history, patterns of political intent and impact have linked the wide range of dance movements performed in public places. Grou...

In the mid-2000s, Russia's government began to merge Siberian indigenous territories (autonomous okrugs) into larger administrative regions. Among ...

In the mid-2000s, Russia's government began to merge Siberian indigenous territories (autonomous okrugs) into larger administrative regions. Among ...

Born in Japan and trained in Germany, dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1893–1961) achieved prominence in London before moving to the U.S. in 19...