Dance

The guitar-based music known as bachata was born in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s. Brought to the U.S. by Dominican migrants, it has...

In August 1960, Anna Halprin taught an experimental workshop attended by Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (along with Trisha Brown and other soon-to-...

Music was everywhere in pre-Revolutionary Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1771, plantation owner Landon Carter noted in his diary that he could hear ...

The lights dim and soon the theatre becomes dark. The audience conversations end with a few softly dissipating whispers, and the movie begins. Nina...

Daniel Lewis's legacy as a hugely influential choreographer and teacher of modern dance is celebrated in this biography. It showcases the many role...

This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or...

Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the...

The Argentine tango is one of the worlds best-known partner dances. Though tango is much admired and discussed, very little has been written on its...

The influence of dance upon consumers has long been understood by advertisers. This work investigates the use of black social dance in televisio...

This book has systematic directions for those who are creating a dance company for young audiences: how to handle bookings, write effective gran...

Newly updated and lavishly illustrated, this classic celebration of female dancers of the Arab world is available in an appealing new format. Serpe...

This is a comprehensive work and includes cultural studies and anthropology of revival movements from a historical perspective; it is focused on th...

This is the first complete biography of T. Balasaraswati (1918-1984), a dancer and musician from southern India who became recognized worldwide as ...

Dance and the Christian Faith is an examination of dance and worship in the context of the bible; the book is a critical discussion of religious da...