Dance

A celebration of the human body and spirit in more than 100 photographs - all nude, all taken at night. These photographs illustrate the hard work ...

Raqs sharqi, the Egyptian dance form also known as belly dance, has for generations captured imaginations around the globe. Yet its origins have...

How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? How are these trends represented in movement, in performance, a...

African dance is discussed here in its global as well as local contexts as a powerful vehicle of aesthetic and cultural exchange and influence. To...

Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the Firs...

The first-ever biography in English of Pina Bausch: perhaps the most influential performer and choreographer of the 20th century. Meyer has writte...

From ballet to burlesque, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, Americans have always loved watching dance, whether in grand ballrooms, on Missis...

Modernism on Stage restores Serge Diaghilevs Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of the 1910s and 1920s. During those year...

Beginning Tap Dance With HKPropel Access introduces students to tap dance techniques and cultivates an appreciation of tap dance as a performing ar...

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich c...

Discovering Dance is the ideal introductory text for students with little to no dance experience. Teachers can adapt this course to meet students w...

From the vaudeville gyrations of New York Giants star pitchers Rube Marquard and Christy Mathewson, to Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as hoofing i...

The shag, the official state dance of North and South Carolina, originated in the 1930s. The dance quickly spread throughout the South, where it be...

Agrippina Vaganova (18791951) is revered as the visionary who first codified the Russian system of classical ballet training. The Vaganova Academy ...

The ancient tradition of African dance has influenced dance styles all over the world. It is used to commemorate many annual ceremonies and activit...

In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa a...

Ukrainian dance is remarkably enduring in its popularity and still performed in numerous cultural contexts. This text unpacks the complex world ...

Dancers represent a unique athletic population. They can often be required to perform a variety of shows of differing intensity and styles: profes...

Group Motion--an improvisational dance performance practice--represents fifty years of co-creation by the authors, with the participation of tho...

Part memoir, part dance history and ethnography, this critical study explores ballet's power to inspire and to embody ideas about politics, race...