Contemporary dance books

"William Forsythe has brought about a shift of paradigms in contemporary dance. The vocabulary of his choreographies...  Read More >>

Hijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an...  Read More >>

Hijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an...  Read More >>

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's...  Read More >>

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As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement...  Read More >>

As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement...  Read More >>

A lively portrait of modern dance training that gives today's dancers and students the tools to compare the great...  Read More >>

Presents the performance art 'butoh' as an evolving artistic bodily response to the Japanese society of the 1960s-1980s...  Read More >>

A renewed interest in nature, the ancient Greeks, and the freedom of the body was to transform dance and physical...  Read More >>

This book investigates the role Nietzsche's dance images play in his project of ""revaluing all values"" alongside...  Read More >>

Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political...  Read More >>

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This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres. It challenges...  Read More >>

Using the stage and the bedroom, Renée E. D'Aoust interweaves dance history with the stories of contemporary dancers'...  Read More >>

This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres. It challenges...  Read More >>

Notorious for his continually subversive takes on classical dance, Michael Clark is without doubt one of the most...  Read More >>

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How visual art has been enriched by dance, and dance has been shaped by art, in unprecedented and exciting ways...  Read More >>

Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language...  Read More >>

Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language...  Read More >>

Laban's The Mastery of Movement on the Stage, first published in 1950, quickly came to be accepted as the standard...  Read More >>

Employing a cultural theory approach, this book explores the relationship between popular dance and value. It traces...  Read More >>