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Books: Aesthetics, philosophy and theory



Adversaries of dance, from the puritans to the present.

Author: Wagner, Ann Louise

Published: 1997

A major study of opposition to dance over a period of four centuries in what is now the United States.

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Cover imageAlien bodies

Author: Burt, Ramsay

Published: 1998

A fascinating account of dance in Germany, France and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, ranging across... [full description]

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Analysing performance: a critical reader.

Author: Campbell, P.

Published: 1996

A wide-ranging collection of specially commissioned essays by contributors of international standing about key aspects... [full description]

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Cover imageAnalyzing performance: theater, dance, and film.

Author: Pavis, Patrice

Published: 2003

Conceptual tools for understanding a range of performance. This illustrated book develops protocols for the analysis of... [full description]

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Anthropology and human movement 2: searching for origins.

Author: Williams, Drid

Published: 1999

Time/space and the world-historical context regarding the study of human movement.

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Cover imageAnthropology and the dance, ten lectures.

Author: Williams, Drid

Published: 2004

Anthropology and the Dance: Ten Lectures is the thoroughly rewritten second edition of Ten Lectures on... [full description]

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Cover imageThe anthropology of dance.

Author: Royce, Anya Peterson

Published: 2002

This pioneering book, first published in 1977 and here reprinted with a new introduction, is the first general... [full description]

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Cover imageThe arts at Dartington, 1940 - 1983.

Author: Cox , Peter

Published:

The story of how the author, Peter Cox, found himself in 1940 invited to join the Dartington Hall Arts Department to... [full description]

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Cover imageBodies in technology, an original exploration of the ways cyberspace affects human experience.

Author: Ihde, Don

Published: 2002

New technologies suggest new ideas about embodiment: our 'reach' extends to global sites through the Internet; we enter... [full description]

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Bodies of the text: dance as theory, literature as dance.

Author: Goellner, Ellen W. & Jacqueline Shea Murphy

Published: 1995

A study of the interconnections between dance studies and literary studies and the body of writing about them. Essays... [full description]

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Bodily communications.

Author: Argyle, Michael

Published:

An introduction to and overview of the entire field of non-verbal communication.

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Cover imageThe body and social theory.

Author: Shilling, Chris

Published: 1993

A critical analysis of the new sociological literature on the body, and an introduction to social theories of human... [full description]

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Cover imageThe body and society.

Author: Turner, Bryan

Published: 1996

Few recent books can claim to be path-breaking. The body and society is one of them. Originally published in... [full description]

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Cover imageThe body can speak, essays on creative movement education.

Author: Mertz, Annelise

Published: 2002

19 essays providing an aesthetic appreciation for creative movement education, as well as practical pedagogy for... [full description]

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Cover imageThe body electric: how strange machines built the modern American.

Author: de la Pena, Carolyn Thomas

Published: 2003

A survey of changing ideas about fitness and gender, in dialogue with the popular culture of technology. Whether... [full description]

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Body images, embodiment as intercorporality.

Author: Weiss, Gail

Published: 1998

A subtle and thoughtful interrogation of the status of the body in our understanding of subjectivity and society.

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Body matters: essays on the sociology of the body.

Author: Scott, Sue & David Morgan

Published: 1993

The study of the body has developed rapidly in the social sciences and humanities, and this collection of essays... [full description]

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Bodyspace, destabilizing geographies of gender and sexuality.

Author: Duncan, Nancy

Published: 1996

An exploration of the role of space and place in the performance of gender and sexuality. The book takes a broad... [full description]

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Choreographing history.

Author: Foster, Susan Leigh

Published: 1995

A collection of essays in which historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body,... [full description]

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Cover imageThe choreography of Antony Tudor, focus on four ballets.

Author: Duerden, R Chamberlain

Published: 2003

An analytical overview of the ballets created for the stage by Antony Tudor and an in-depth critical analysis of four... [full description]

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Common culture.

Author: Willis, Paul

Published:

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The consuming body.

Author: Falk, Pasi

Published: 1994

An examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body, and the forming of the self.

Paperback [2144-PB] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageContemporary choreography, a critical reader.

Author: Butterworth, Jo & Liesbeth Wildschut

Published: 2009

This innovative text provides a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative... [full description]

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Contemporary feminist theatres.

Author: Goodman, L.

Published:

A detailed evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968.

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Corporealities: body, knowledge, culture, power.

Author: Foster, Susan Leigh

Published: 1995

Susan Foster has collected sparkling, interesting, individual essays on topics ranging from tango to the hisory of... [full description]

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Cover imageCritical gestures, writings on dance and culture.

Author: Daly, Ann

Published: 2002

Ann Daly ranks among the most insightful, articulate dance critics and scholars writing today. Spanning the divide... [full description]

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Cover imageCritical moves, dance studies in theory and politics.

Author: Martin, Randy

Published: 1998

An inquiry into the relationship between dance, politics and cultural theory.

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The cultivation of body and mind in nineteenth-century American Delsartism.

Author: Ruyter, Nancy Lee Chalfa

Published: 1999

An in depth study into the influence of Francois Delsarte's system in America.

Hardback [0691-HB] £ 55.99 Add to order


Cover imageCultural bodies, ethnography and theory.

Author: Thomas, Helen

Published: 2004

A collection of essays that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and... [full description]

Paperback [5193-PB] £ 23.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe culture of the body, genealogies of modernity.

Author: Judovitz, Dalia

Published: 2000

This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its... [full description]

Paperback [2448-PB] £ 16.50 Add to order


Cover imageDance analysis: theory and practice.

Author: Adshead, Janet

Published:

A collection of essays attempting to draw together work in aesthetics on the value of analysing dance works with... [full description]

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Dance and the lived body.

Author: Fraleigh, Sondra Horton

Published: 1996

The author examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of... [full description]

Paperback [2279-PB] £ 24.00 Add to order


Cover imageDance and the performative, a choreological perspective - Laban and beyond.

Author: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie & Ana Sanchez-Colberg

Published: 2002

This book articulates the dynamic with which a practitioner-based research has grown, is growing, and is applied,... [full description]

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Cover imageThe dance criticism of Arlene Croce.

Author: Strauss, Marc Raymond

Published: 2005

Through her critiques for The New Yorker, Arlene Croce confirmed a classical aesthetic framework for dance,... [full description]

Paperback [4611-PB] £ 29.50 Add to order


Cover imageDance discourses, keywords in dance research.

Author: Franco, Susanne & Marina Nordera

Published: 2007

Dance Discourses collects together original writings from an international community of renowned dance scholars... [full description]

Paperback [5276-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order


Dance for export, cultural diplomacy and the cold war.

Author: Prevots, Nina

Published: 1999

A clearly and concisely written account of dance in President Eisenhower's cultural exchange that sent American artists... [full description]

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Dance history.

Author: Adshead-Lansdale, Janet & June Layson

Published: 1983, 2004

The only book to address the rationale, process, and methodologies specific to the study of dance history. It offers a... [full description]

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Cover imageDance in a world of change.

Author: Shapiro, Sherry B.

Published: 2008

Dance in a World of Change: Reflections on Globalization and Cultural Difference presents a range of... [full description]

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Dance pathologies: performance, poetics, medicine.

Author: McCarren, Felicia M

Published: 1998

An exploration of dance's historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a 'pathology', and an enquiry... [full description]

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Dance words.

Author: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie

Published: 1995

A unique collection of definitions of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers, presenting a... [full description]

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Dance, a creative art experience.

Author: H'Doubler, Margaret

Published: 1998

A seminal text, first published in 1940, in which one of the pioneers of dance education in the USA discusses the basic... [full description]

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Dance, current selected research vol. 1.

Author: Overby, Lynette & James H. Humphrey

Published: 1989

A selection of academic papers concerned with various aspects of the field of dance. Criteria for publication consist... [full description]

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Dance, education and philosophy.

Author: McFee, Graham

Published: 1999

A collection of essays concerned with the relationship, from a philosophical perspective, between dance pedagogy and... [full description]

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Cover imageDance, human rights and social justice.

Author: Jackson, Naomi & Toni Shapiro-phim

Published: 2008

Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays,... [full description]

Paperback [5599-PB] £ 43.00 Add to order


Dance, modernity and culture.

Author: Thomas, Helen

Published: 1995

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Dance, sex and gender

Author: Hanna, Judith Lynne

Published:

The implications of dance for gender roles: how and why do men and women dance differently, how male chauvinism and gay... [full description]

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Cover imageDance, space and subjectivity.

Author: Briginshaw, Valerie

Published: 2001

Readings in American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonial, queer, and... [full description]

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Dance-based dance theory.

Author: Alter, Judith B

Published: 1991

The intellectual history of twentieth-century dance theory, from its dependence on aesthetics for its model of... [full description]

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The dance: a handbook for the appreciation of the choreographic experience.

Author: Cass, Joan

Published: 1999

An introduction to the elements of choreographic appreciation.

Paperback [1950-PB] £ 21.50 Add to order


Cover imageDancers talking dance, critical evaluation in the choreography class.

Author: Lavender, Larry

Published: 1996

In Dancers talking dance Larry Lavender outlines five steps to critical evaluation: observation, reflection,... [full description]

Paperback [2430-PB] £ 19.25 Add to order


Dancing and mixed media.

Author: Alter, Judith B

Published: 1993

A study of books, drawings, and photographs made and used by early twentieth-century dancers, authors, and art critics.

Paperback [1464-PB] £ 28.00 Add to order


Cover imageDancing at the crossroads: memory and mobility in Ireland.

Author: Wulff, Helena

Published: 2007

Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in... [full description]

Hardback [5324-HB] £ 35.00 Add to order


Dancing class - gender, ethnicity and social divides in American dance, 1890 - 1920.

Author: Tomko, Linda J

Published: 1999

A study of dance which turns away from art dance and focuses on dancing in drawing rooms, cabarets, dance-halls,... [full description]

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Cover imageDancing communities: performance, difference and connection in the global city.

Author: Hamera, Judith

Published: 2007

Every day, urban communities are danced into being. This is more than a metaphor: it is a testament to the power of... [full description]

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Cover imageDancing desires: choreographing sexualities on and off the stage.

Author: Desmond, Jane C

Published: 2001

What happens to the writing of dance history when issues of sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What... [full description]

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Cover imageDancing identity, metaphysics in motion.

Author: Fraleigh, Sondra Horton

Published: 2004

A celebratory fusion of philosophy and movement. Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Sondra... [full description]

Hardback [1301-HB] £ 32.00 Add to order


Dancing modernism/Performing politics.

Author: Franko, Mark

Published: 1995

A revisionary account of the evolution of modern dance, in which the author questions the common notion that the... [full description]

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Cover imageDancing texts: intertextuality in interpretation.

Author: Adshead-Lansdale, Janet

Published: 1999

An innovative approach to dance analysis, looking at issues in the interpretation and reading of dances. Building on... [full description]

Paperback [3134-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Dancing Women - female bodies on stage

Author: Banes, Sally

Published:

Western dance, from the romantic ballet to modern dance, examined from a feminist perspective.

Paperback [3439-PB] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageDecentring dancing texts: the challenge of interpreting dances.

Author: Lansdale, Janet

Published: 2008

Decentring is a term used both in dance and critical theory. Merce Cunningham famously decentred the dance, with... [full description]

Hardback [5431-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order


A dictionary of theatre anthropology.

Author: Barba, Eugenio & Nicola Savarese

Published: 1991

More than just a dictionary, this is a handbook for theatre practitioners and a guide for students and scholars of... [full description]

Paperback [2715-PB] £ 39.99 Add to order


Cover imageDigging the Africanist presence in American performance dance.

Author: Gottschild, Brenda Dixon

Published: 1996

An attempt to demonstrate how the African aesthetic in American culture has been negated in the dance world by the... [full description]

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Cover imageDisability and contemporary performance, bodies on edge.

Author: Kuppers, Petra

Published: 2003

Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers... [full description]

Paperback [0438-PB] £ 25.99 Add to order


Cover imageDying swans and madmen: ballet, the body, and narrative cinema.

Author: McLean, Adrienne L

Published: 2008

From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits... [full description]

Paperback [5429-PB] £ 18.99 Add to order


Cover imageExhausting dance: performance and the politics of movement.

Author: Lepecki, Andre

Published: 2006

A brief examination of the work of some key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the... [full description]

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Cover imageFrom ballroom to DanceSport: aesthetics, athletics, and body culture.

Author: Picart, Caroline Joan S

Published: 2006

Drawing on recent media portrayals and her own experience, author and dancer Caroline Joan S Picart explores ballroom... [full description]

Paperback [4721-PB] £ 12.95 Add to order


Cover imageHip Hop dance, meanings and messages.

Author: Huntington, Carla Stalling

Published: 2007

Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not... [full description]

Paperback [5146-PB] £ 32.95 Add to order


Cover imageAn introduction to theories of popular culture.

Author: Strinati, Dominic

Published: 1995

A clear and comprehensive guide to the major theories of popular culture. The author provides a critical assessment of... [full description]

Paperback [1231-PB] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageLooking at dances, a choreological perspective on choreography.

Author: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie

Published: 1998

Written for practical people in dance, the text is organised in 32 short chapters each addressing a question on the way... [full description]

Paperback [3323-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order


The male dancer - bodies, spectacle, and sexuality.

Author: Burt, Ramsay

Published: 1995

An examination of the representation of masculinity in twentieth-century dance. Taking issue with formalist and... [full description]

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Meaning in motion.

Author: Desmond, Jane C

Published: 1997

New cultural studies of dance (post-contemporary interventions).

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Cover imageMen who dance: aesthetics, athletics, and the art of masculinity.

Author: Gard, Michael

Published: 2006

Why do men do ballet? What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? In this highly original piece of research, Michael... [full description]

Paperback [4888-PB] £ 29.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe metrosexual: gender, sexuality, and sport.

Author: Coad, David

Published: 2008

How do you explain Dennis Rodman's dyed hair, tattoos, and pierced body parts? Why are there so many athletes stripping... [full description]

Paperback [5472-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order


Cover imageModern art: a very short introduction.

Author: Cottington, David

Published: 2005

Public interest in modern art continues to grow, but at the same time there is much bewilderment about the works of art... [full description]

Paperback [5474-PB] £ 6.99 Add to order


Movement and modernism.

Author: Mester, Terri A.

Published: 1997

The role played by images and descriptions of dance in the works of Yeats, Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and William Carlos... [full description]

Hardback [0857-HB] £ 28.50 Add to order


Moving words, re-writing dance.

Author: Morris, Gay (ed.)

Published: 1996

A direct line into the most pressing issues of contemporary dance scholarship: the contributors confront basic... [full description]

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Cover imageThe naked man: a study of the male body.

Author: Morris, Desmond

Published: 2008

No life form has had a greater impact upon this planet than the human male. What is it that has made his legacy so... [full description]

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Cover imageOf the presence of the body: essays on dance and performance theory.

Author: Lepecki, Andre

Published: 2004

Nine original essays by eminent scholars in the fields of dance and performance studies. The book's focus is the... [full description]

Paperback [3941-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order


Cover imagePerformance analysis, an introductory coursebook.

Author: Counsell, Colin

Published: 2001

How classic texts in critical theory may be used in the analysis of performance. Themed sections bring together texts... [full description]

Paperback [2726-PB] £ 21.99 Add to order


Performance art, from futurism to the present.

Author: Goldberg, RoseLee

Published: 1988

A pioneering history, tracing performance art from tribal rituals and mediaeval passion plays to the Russian and... [full description]

Paperback [2474-PB] £ 7.95 Add to order


Cover imageThe performance studies reader.

Author: Bial, Henry

Published: 2003

The emergent field of performance studies has for some time required a major collection of key writings. The... [full description]

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Cover imagePerformance studies, an introduction.

Author: Schechner, Richard

Published: 2002

This important introductory textbook by a prime mover in the emergent field of Performance Studies is a defining moment... [full description]

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Cover imagePerformance theory.

Author: Schechner, Richard

Published:

Richard Schechner's classic contribution to the performance arts and critical theory. Within the book's pages he... [full description]

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Cover imagePerformance, a critical introduction.

Author: Carlson, Marvin

Published: 2003

Performance, a critical introduction was the first textbook to provide an overview of the modern concept of... [full description]

Paperback [0020-PB] £ 18.99 Add to order


Cover imagePerformativity and performance.

Author: Parker, Andrew & Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Published: 1995

From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers, and activists have wrestled with the... [full description]

Paperback [5297-PB] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imagePoint of departure.

Author: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie

Published: 2008

This book is for dancers and choreographers. It is based on Rudolf Laban's inspired work on spatial organisation for... [full description]

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Cover imageReading critics reading: opera and ballet criticism in France from the Revolution to 1848.

Author: Parker, Roger & Mary Ann Smart

Published: 2001

This book is amongst the first to examine French opera and ballet criticism during the first half of the nineteenth... [full description]

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Reading dancing.

Author: Foster, Susan Leigh

Published: 1986

Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, the author suggets the possibility for a new... [full description]

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Cover imageResearching dance, evolving modes of inquiry.

Author: Fraleigh, Sondra Horton & Penelope Hanstein

Published: 1999

An introduction to dance research methods addressed primarily at graduate students. Contains essays by nine dance... [full description]

Paperback [2497-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageRethinking dance history.

Author: Carter, Alexandra

Published: 2004

From the ballets de cours of the seventeenth century to Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, this fascinating... [full description]

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Cover imageReworking the ballet: counter-narratives and alternative bodies.

Author: Midgelow, Vida L

Published: 2007

Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris, and Masaki... [full description]

Paperback [5255-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order


Rhythm and timing of movement in performance.

Author: Goodridge, Janet

Published: 1999

Aimed at those working in, or interested in, the expressive arts, arts therapies, interpersonal communication and... [full description]

Paperback [3036-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order


Ritual, performance, media.

Author: Hughes-Freeland, Felicia

Published: 1998

A fascinating range of case studies about human behaviour in contexts in which reality is more than everyday routines:... [full description]

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Cover imageThe Routledge dance studies reader.

Author: Carter, Alexandra

Published: 1998

A collection of writings which traces the development of dance studies internationally and surveys current debates... [full description]

Paperback [1845-PB] £ 25.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe senses in performance.

Author: Banes, Sally & Andre Lepecki

Published: 2007

The senses in performance is the first anthology dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human... [full description]

Paperback [4915-PB] £ 24.99 Add to order


Sex, art, and audiences - dance essays.

Author: Fleming, Bruce E

Published: 2000

A series of essays examining the subjects of gender and sexuality in performances and the relationship of the dance... [full description]

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Cover imageThe shape of content.

Author: Shahn, Ben

Published: 1957

In this book, based on a series of lectures given at Harvard University, a distinguished American painter writes... [full description]

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Cover imageSocial choreography: ideology as performance in dance and everyday movement.

Author: Hewitt, Andrew

Published: 2005

Through the concept of 'social choreography' Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as a... [full description]

Paperback [5235-PB] £ 13.99 Add to order


The social production of art.

Author: Wolff, Janet

Published: 1981, 1993

Key theories and studies in the sociology of culture, covering work in sociology, art history, feminism and literary... [full description]

Paperback [2013-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageStaging masculinities, history, gender, performance.

Author: Mangan, Michael

Published: 2003

Masculinity, far from being a secure, unproblematic gender identity, is a site of crisis and contradictions. Michael... [full description]

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Stepping left, dance and politics in New York City, 1928-1942.

Author: Graff, Ellen

Published: 1997

From Communist Party pageants, to union hall performances and benefits for the Spanish Civil Way, the author documents... [full description]

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Cover imageThe struggle with the angel: a poetics of Lloyd Newson's 'Strange Fish'.

Author: Adshead-Lansdale, Janet

Published: 2007

In The Struggle with the Angel Janet Adshead-Lansdale makes two major contributions to research in... [full description]

Paperback [5166-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Tango and the political economy of passion.

Author: Savigliano, Marta

Published:

The politics of the tango, tracing its travels from the brothels of Buenos Aires to the cabarets of Paris and the shako... [full description]

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Cover imageTeaching dance studies.

Author: Chazin-Bennahum, Judith

Published: 2005

Teaching Dance Studies introduces key issues in dance pedagogy. This volume of 14 essays covers many areas of... [full description]

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Ten lectures on theories of dance.

Author: Williams, Drid

Published: 1991

A trained anthropologist's view of standard theories and explanations of dance, based on lectures given at graduate... [full description]

Hardback [1993-HB] £ 48.00 Add to order


Cover imageTheatre, body and pleasure.

Author: Shepherd, Simon

Published: 2006

The theatre is a place that exhibits what a human body is, what it does, what it is capable of. It requires special... [full description]

Paperback [4692-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order


To dance is human.

Author: Hanna, Judith Lynne

Published:

The implications of dance for gender roles.

Paperback [0259-PB] £ 18.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe twentieth-century performance reader.

Author: Huxley, Michael & Noel Witts

Published: 1996, 2002

The key introductory text to all types of performance: dance, drama, music, opera, & live art - with text by over 50... [full description]

Paperback [0604-PB] £ 25.99 Add to order


Understanding dance.

Author: McFee, Graham

Published: 1991

An introductory textbook examining the aesthetics of dance and exploring the nature of our understanding of dance and... [full description]

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What is dance?

Author: Copeland, Roger & Marshall Cohen

Published: 1983

One of the most comprehensive and best organised anthologies of dance writings, containing sixty essays selected to... [full description]

Paperback [1676-PB] £ 13.99 Add to order


Cover imageWhat the body cost: desire, history, and performance.

Author: Blocker, Jane

Published: 2004

In What the body cost, Jane Blocker revisits key works in performance art by Carolee Schneeman, Vito Acconci,... [full description]

Paperback [4301-PB] £ 12.95 Add to order


Cover imageWomen and dance.

Author: Adair, Christy

Published: 1992

A history of dance from the point of view of gender, and an introduction for students of dance to critical theory. [The... [full description]

Hardback [0168-HB] £ 60.00 Add to order


Women's intercultural performance.

Author: Holledge, Julie & Joanne Tompkins

Published: 2000

A study which raises major questions about the relationship between politics and aesthetics, the transmission of... [full description]

Paperback [2829-PB] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageWriting in motion: body - language - technology.

Author: King, Kenneth

Published: 2003

Kenneth King is one of America's most inventive postmodern choreographers. His dancing has always reflected his... [full description]

Paperback [2234-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order


Cover imageYes? No! Maybe... seductive ambiguity in dance.

Author: Claid, Emilyn

Published: 2006

A book about performing and watching dance. Using a unique combination of historical, academic and autobiographical... [full description]

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