Dance

Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars-nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs.

This transdisciplinary study scientifically reports the way the established contemporary dance sector in Europe operates from a micro-perspective.

This interdisciplinary book brings together essays that consider how the body enacts social and cultural rituals in relation to objects, spaces, and the everyday, and how these are questioned, explored, and problematised through, and translated into dance, art, and performance.

This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of electronic dance music (EDM) and club culture.

This volume explores the history of dance on the historically black college and university (HBCU) campus, casting a first light on the historical practices and current state of college dance program practice in HBCUs.

This book traces an engagement between intercultural dance company Marrugeku and unceded lands of the Yawuru, Bunuba, and Nyikina in the north west of Australia.

This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core.

This book offers new ways of thinking about dance-related artworks that have taken place in galleries, museums and biennales over the past two decades as part of the choreographic turn.

This book investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology, from an analytic philosophical perspective.

In Choreographing Agonism, author Goran Petrovic Lotina offers new insight into the connections between politics and performance.

This book critically examines matters of age and aging in relation to dance.

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process.

This unparalleled collection, international and innovative in scope, analyzes the dynamic tensions between masculinity and dance.

This book explores Black British dance from a number of previously-untold perspectives.

This book addresses the need for critical scholarship about contemporary dance practices in Ireland.

This book examines men, masculinities and sexualities in Western theatrical dance, offering insights into the processes, actions and interactions that occur in dance institutions around gender-transgressive acts, and the factors that set limits to transgression.

This book sheds light on the purpose of Hindu dance as devotional.

This is a book about collaboration in the arts, which explores how working together seems to achieve more than the sum of the parts.

How might spoken words be translated into choreography?

Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920-1950 tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican revolution, when composers, choreographers, and muralists had produced state-sponsored works in wide public spaces.

This pivot offers an innovative approach to dance education, bringing a creative and inclusive dance education pedagogy into Chinese dance classrooms.

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.

This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe.

This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe.

In den 1920er-Jahren gerät nicht nur die Welt, sondern auch die Musik und das Musikleben ins Taumeln: zwischen Krise und Aufbruch, Abschottung und Austausch, dem sehnsüchtigen Blick zurück und neuer Dynamik.

Dancing Mind, Minding Dance encompasses a collection of pivotal texts published by scholar and researcher Doug Risner, whose work over the past three decades has emphasized the significance of social relevance and personal resonance in dance education.

The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.

The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.

While it is widely recognized that music contributes to the health and well-being of societies, the reverse is not necessarily true.

The Memory Palace of Bones: Exploring Embodiment Through the Skeletal System is an unprecedented exploration of the anatomy of the bones of the body, and a unique set of reflections on the role each individual bone plays in our lives, looking at both its physical and energetic contributions.

This book contributes to the growing scientific literature on 'intangible cultural heritage' - determined by UNESCO to be particularly worthy of safeguarding and transmission - by advancing a theoretical-analytical framework for the (in)tangible cultural heritage of dance.

This book offers an inside view of ballet as the art form we see on stages today, detailing how expressive movement is initiated and controlled, and discussing the importance of embedding creativity and expressivity within ballet technique from the dancer's first lesson to their final performance.

This book offers an inside view of ballet as the art form we see on stages today, detailing how expressive movement is initiated and controlled, and discussing the importance of embedding creativity and expressivity within ballet technique from the dancer's first lesson to their final performance.

This book contributes to the growing scientific literature on 'intangible cultural heritage' - determined by UNESCO to be particularly worthy of safeguarding and transmission - by advancing a theoretical-analytical framework for the (in)tangible cultural heritage of dance.

Jazz players tend to be good sharers and good listenersthe qualities are virtually obligatory in often spontaneously conceived ensemble music.

Le livre d’Aïssatou Bangoura opère la critique de deux imaginaires, l’un créé autour du Noir dansant par le regard occidental, à l’époque du primitivisme et de la théorie de l’inégalité des races, largement véhiculé par les expositions coloniales et universelles du XIXe siècle ; l’autre lié au système des castes de la société sénégalaise, attribuant au griot le don inné pour la danse et le chant.

Nutrition for Dance and Performance is the first complete textbook written by an experienced dietitian specialising in the field of dance nutrition.

How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance?

This book of highly original essays addresses the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology.

Inclusive Dance is an ethnography of disability arts, and historiographic overview of the 1980s when many new disability arts groups came to fruition.

'We come for the glitter, but instead we get the grit, in stories told with insight, tenderness and joy.

Inclusive Dance is an ethnography of disability arts, and historiographic overview of the 1980s when many new disability arts groups came to fruition.

Dans un bureau impersonnel et froid se tient un entretien d’embauche.

Une soirée comme les autres.

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre.

Le soir de sa rencontre avec Philippe Marelle, le jeune reporter Andreas ne se doute pas un seul instant que sa vie et sa carrière professionnelle vont s´en trouver chamboulées.

How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance?

This book of highly original essays addresses the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology.