Dance & Performing arts books

Rode Hard & Never Put Up recounts a life that reads like Western folklore. From rodeo circuits to logging to ranching...  Read More >>

""Imagine growing up next door to the Big Top: a huge, musty circus tent outfitted with wooden rings, a laminated...  Read More >>

Most people learn tricks.Very few learn how to perform. That's the difference. If you've ever: Learned a routine...  Read More >>

Movement Medicine -Self, Social & Soul Exploration Through Conscious Dance gives us an introduction and overview...  Read More >>

The third in the cosy backstage mystery series that readers are loving.  Read More >>

Written by Enrico Cecchetti’s kin, this is the only true complete ballet course based on the most celebrated classical...  Read More >>

Written by Enrico Cecchetti’s kin, this is the only true complete ballet course based on the most celebrated classical...  Read More >>

This book sets out to search for the ‘lost’ Second World in dance studies and the way it appears and reappears in...  Read More >>

Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography and literary theory, Nicole Svobodny puts the...  Read More >>

Explores how African musical traditions and dance act as political commentary and forms of resistance in postcolonial...  Read More >>

Examines how the DanceSport dispositive shapes its actors’ opportunities, desires, and choices to reify the heteronormative...  Read More >>

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A concise history of storytelling in Europe, in all its forms  Read More >>

Combining the notions of performativity and embodiment, this book situates the body in the realm of processes, movement,...  Read More >>

Combining the notions of performativity and embodiment, this book situates the body in the realm of processes, movement,...  Read More >>

According to a widely held view in eighteenth-century Britain, Britons were inherently unmusical. Through a detailed...  Read More >>

From critically acclaimed author Nicole Galland comes a vibrant and thought-provoking historical tale of love, political...  Read More >>

From bestselling author and Strictly Come Dancing's Head Judge, Shirley Ballas, a sparkling toolkit for living your...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that brings together cutting-edge research on...  Read More >>

The brilliant new Joseph Spector locked-room mystery. Spector investigates paranormal goings-on and murder at a...  Read More >>

A guide to ""theater of the oppressed"" from the perspective of drama leader and audience collaborator—the joker....  Read More >>

DISCO! Music, Image, Dance takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring disco's untold stories--sonic, visual,...  Read More >>

Dialogue is conceived of as verbal interaction between different people or groups such as spoken text between actors...  Read More >>

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Playing with Patterns on the Lute is a practical guide for all lutenists who want to learn how to ornament their...  Read More >>