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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. | Hardback [0720-HB] £ 29.50 Add to order |
 Aesthetics: an introduction to the philosophy of art.
Author: Sheppard, Anne Published: 1987 In this introduction to aesthetics Anne Sheppard tackles the complex questions that lie at the heart of the subject.... [full description] | Paperback [1949-PB] £ 18.99 Add to order |
 Alien 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] | Paperback [3460-PB] £ 24.99 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1483-PB] £ 15.99 Add to order |
 Analyzing 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] | Paperback [0082-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order |
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. | Hardback [1316-HB] £ 38.00 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [1335-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [5267-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 Bodies 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] | Paperback [0619-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [2471-HB] £ 51.50 Add to order |
Bodily communications. Author: Argyle, Michael Published: An introduction to and overview of the entire field of non-verbal communication. | Paperback [1509-PB] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [1349-PB] £ 21.99 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [2695-PB] £ 20.99 Add to order |
 The 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] | Hardback [2054-HB] £ 36.00 Add to order |
 The 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] | Hardback [1267-HB] £ 29.95 Add to order |
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. | Paperback [1040-PB] £ 17.99 Add to order |
 The body in the mind, the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason.
Author: Johnson, Mark Published: 1987 An exploration of the ways that meaning, understanding, and rationality arise from and are conditioned by the patterns... [full description] | Paperback [1072-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1275-PB] £ 24.99 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [0916-PB] £ 23.99 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [2264-HB] £ 28.50 Add to order |
 The 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] | Hardback [3871-HB] £ 32.00 Add to order |
Common culture. Author: Willis, Paul Published: | Paperback [1995-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order |
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 |
Contemporary feminist theatres. Author: Goodman, L. Published: A detailed evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. | Paperback [2489-PB] £ 18.99 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [2270-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
 Critical 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] | Paperback [1854-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
 Critical moves, dance studies in theory and politics.
Author: Martin, Randy Published: 1998 An inquiry into the relationship between dance, politics and cultural theory. | Paperback [0163-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order |
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 |
 Cultural 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] £ 20.99 Add to order |
 The 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 |
 Dance 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] | Paperback [1392-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
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] £ 18.95 Add to order |
 Dance 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] | Paperback [2296-PB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 The 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 |
 Dance 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 |
 The dance experience.
Author: Nadel, Myron & Marc Raymond Strauss Published: 2003 Using a global approach, this collection of twenty-two original essays considers ballet, modern, jazz, and tap dance,... [full description] | Paperback [1252-PB] £ 21.00 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] | Hardback [0988-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
The dance has many faces. Second hand or out of print title Author: Sorell, Walter Published: 1951 Twenty-nine essays written by various authors - including Doris Humphrey, George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton, Hanya... [full description] | Hardback [5359-HB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1401-PB] £ 20.99 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [2002-HB] £ 35.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [0986-PB] £ 24.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [0361-PB] £ 10.95 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [0815-HB] £ 56.50 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1380-PB] £ 12.95 Add to order |
Dance, gender, and culture Author: Thomas, Helen Published: 1995 A collection of essays which seeks to explore the the ways in which dance and gender intersect within particular... [full description] | Paperback [1805-PB] £ 29.99 Add to order |
Dance, modernity and culture. Author: Thomas, Helen Published: 1995 | Paperback [1807-PB] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Dance, power, and difference: critical and feminist perspectives on dance education. Author: Shapiro, Sherry B. Published: 1998 A foundation for reconstructing dance education in the light of critical, social and cultural concerns. | Paperback [0056-PB] £ 19.50 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [0250-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
 Dance, space and subjectivity.
Author: Briginshaw, Valerie Published: 2001 Readings in American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonial, queer, and... [full description] | Hardback [1713-HB] £ 60.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1461-PB] £ 28.00 Add to order |
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 |
 Dancers 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] £ 18.95 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 |
 Dancing 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 bodies, living histories: new writings about dance and culture.
Author: Doolittle, Lisa Published: 2000 A collection of essays staging a set of illuminating connections between cultural theory and dancing practices,... [full description] | Paperback [1895-PB] £ 12.95 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] | Hardback [2224-HB] £ 32.95 Add to order |
 Dancing 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] | Hardback [4904-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order |
 Dancing 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] | Paperback [0717-PB] £ 20.95 Add to order |
 Dancing fear & desire: race, sexuality, & imperial politics in Middle Eastern Dance.
Author: Karayanni, Stavros Stavrou Published: 2004 Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move... [full description] | Paperback [3507-PB] £ 13.99 Add to order |
 Dancing from past to present: nation, culture, identities.
Author: Buckland, Theresa (ed). Published: 2007 This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural... [full description] | Paperback [5173-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
 Dancing 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] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Dancing machines, choreographies of the age of mechanical reproduction.
Author: McCarren, Felicia M Published: 2003 The age of high tech is haunted by an image from the last century that developed in the three decades between the... [full description] | Hardback [2040-HB] £ 38.00 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] | Hardback [2309-HB] £ 27.50 Add to order |
 The dancing self: creativity, modern dance, self psychology, and transformative education.
Author: Press, Carol Published: 2002 How the choreographer/dancer engages the physical world (time, space, substance)to intertwine subjectivity and... [full description] | Paperback [2823-PB] £ 21.00 Add to order |
 Dancing 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 and... [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 |
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 |
 Digging 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] | Paperback [2507-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Disability 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 |
 Exhausting 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] | Paperback [4640-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Finnish dance research at the crossroads: practical and theoretical challenges.
Author: Pakkanen, Paivi K & Aino Sarje Published: 2006 The purpose of this book is to provide international readers with a survey of the development of dance research in... [full description] | Paperback [5228-PB] £ 25.50 Add to order |
 From 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 |
 Hip 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] £ 23.95 Add to order |
Human action signs in cultural context, the visible and invisible in dance. Author: Farnell, Brenda Published: 1995 A collection of papers relating to the study of human movement within sociocultural anthropology. | Paperback [3429-PB] £ 31.99 Add to order |
 Impossible dance, club culture and queer world-making.
Author: Buckland, Fiona Published: 2003 A highly accessible, original, and engaging account of the complex and often heavily theorised debates around the body,... [full description] | Paperback [0634-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
 An 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 |
 Looking 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] | Hardback [1432-HB] £ 65.00 Add to order |
Meaning in motion. Author: Desmond, Jane C Published: 1997 New cultural studies of dance (post-contemporary interventions). | Hardback [0738-HB] £ 39.95 Add to order |
 Men 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] £ 26.99 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] | Paperback [0608-PB] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 The 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] | Hardback [5331-HB] £ 18.99 Add to order |
Next week, Swan Lake. Author: Cohen, Selma Jeanne Published: 1982 A series of essays on dance aesthetics, tackling basic issues such as the nature and relationship of grace and... [full description] | Paperback [1648-PB] £ 13.95 Add to order |
 Of another world, dancing between dream and reality.
Author: Dithmer (editor), Monna Published: 2002 A selection of essays published in honour of Professor Emeritus Erik Aschengreen, on the occasion of his retirement as... [full description] | Hardback [0733-HB] £ 28.00 Add to order |
 Of 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 |
 Performance 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] £ 18.99 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 |
 The 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] | Paperback [0242-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Performance 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] | Paperback [2344-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Performance 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] | Paperback [0117-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 Performance, 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 |
 Reading 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] | Hardback [1668-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order |
 Researching 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 |
 Rethinking 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] | Hardback [0420-HB] £ 50.00 Add to order |
 Reworking 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] £ 17.99 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] | Paperback [3307-PB] £ 15.99 Add to order |
 The 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] £ 22.99 Add to order |
 The 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] £ 21.99 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] | Paperback [2625-PB] £ 28.00 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [1307-PB] £ 11.95 Add to order |
 Social 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 |
 Staging 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] | Paperback [2124-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [2901-PB] £ 17.50 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [1203-PB] £ 27.50 Add to order |
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 |
 Theatre, 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 |
The twentieth century performance reader. Author: Huxley, Michael & Noel Witts Published: 1996 A pioneering introduction to all types of performance: dance, drama, music, opera, & live art - with text by over 30... [full description] | Paperback [0604-PB] £ 22.99 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] | Paperback [1045-PB] £ 22.99 Add to order |
Ways of seeing. Author: Berger, John Published: 1972 One of the most stimulating and influential books of art criticism of the twentieth century: the relationship between... [full description] | Paperback [1942-PB] £ 7.99 Add to order |
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 |
 What 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 |
 Women 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 |
 Writing 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 |
 Yes? 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] | Paperback [4780-PB] £ 23.99 Add to order |
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