Dance books

An Empty Room is a transformative journey through butoh, an avant-garde form of performance art that originated...  Read More >>

A global history of couple dancing in commercial venues in the era of the two world wars.  Read More >>

Shusterman’s Somaesthetics is a wide-ranging collection of penetrating essays by twelve scholars examining in rich...  Read More >>

This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican...  Read More >>

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In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction...  Read More >>

In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction...  Read More >>

Theatre and the Virtual lays out a set of conceptual instruments for the articulation and engendering of the forces...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary Arts helps students explore their capacities for creativity and cross-disciplinary thinking by...  Read More >>

""An autoethnographic discussion of the speculative and fantastical elements of performance""--  Read More >>

Aesthetic Collectives works to name, describe, and analyse the notion of collectivity in performance.  Read More >>

The Mime Handbook covers the theory of mime corporel (Corporeal Mime) and explains the technique through dozens...  Read More >>

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Dionysos is the Greek god of the grape-harvest and winemaking, of the growth and fertility of vegetation - especially...  Read More >>

Imagine an assignment in college as a dance major opening a door and leading you to a life-long mission after just...  Read More >>

Embodied Gospel: The Power, Purpose, and Prayer of Ballet Technique explores ballet technique as a physical prayer...  Read More >>

In this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look inside the day-to-day...  Read More >>

In this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look inside the day-to-day...  Read More >>

"The creation of this work is an invitation to step into the world of the dancer and vicariously experience the...  Read More >>

You know that fantastic idea you've got for a screenplay? It's time to make it a reality! In this book, you'll learn...  Read More >>

This essay is dedicated to the study of Giselle, ou Les Wilis, a mid-nineteenth-century ballet born from the idea...  Read More >>

The contributors to Somaesthetics and Sport explore our embodied experiences of watching and playing sport, including...  Read More >>

"""Breadth of Bodies seeks to investigate and dismantle the language and stereotypes often used to describe professional...  Read More >>

"The creation of this work is an invitation to step into the world of the dancer and vicariously experience the...  Read More >>