Dance

In Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies, Jessica Zeller offers a new take on the ballet pedagogy manual, examining how and why ballet pedagogies develop, considering their implications for students and teachers, and proposing processes by which readers can enact humanizing, equitable approaches.

This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated.

This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated.

Ein fesselnder Tanz um Liebe, Leidenschaft und LebenslügenJoan steht der Abschied vom Ballett bevor: Sie ist schwanger und ihre Karriere als Tänzerin wahrscheinlich beendet.

Eine reife Frau erlebt die abenteuerliche Entdeckung einer anderen Kultur.

This is the first volume devoted to the topic of dance and quality of life.

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

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

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

Touch is a fundamental element of dance.

›Rhythm Is It!

This book explores the relationship between the body, ecology, place, and site-specific performance.

This book explores dancing from the 1960s to the 1980s; though this period covers only twenty years, the changes during it were seismic.

This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b - 1977d).

In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the work of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone but extends and develops within contemporary embodied cognition theory.

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

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

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

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.

Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection discourses.

This book focuses on the myriad ways that people collectively remember or forget shared pasts through popular dance.

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

How does the moving, dancing body engage with the materials, textures, atmospheres, and affects of the sites through which we move and in which we live, work and play?

This book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s-1920s).

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 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 is the first to consider contemporary African dance theatre aesthetics in the context of phenomenology, whiteness, and the gaze.

This book offers a set of eleven discipline-specific chapters from across the arts, humanities, psychology, and medicine.

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

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

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

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 investigates how Pragmatist philosophy as a philosophical method contributes to the understanding and practice of interdisciplinary dance research.

This book analyses the world-renowned Belgian choreographer's key approaches and dramaturgical strategies through selected case studies from his oeuvre between 2000 and 2010, from Rien de Rien to Babel(words).

The first monograph on the work of British choreographer Jonathan Burrows, this book examines his artistic practice and poetics as articulated through his choreographic works, his writings and his contributions to current performance debates.

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.