This book spotlights art works and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of persons in the female category in scenes of love and sexuality....Lasīt vairāk
In this volume Social Circus is explored in depth by three Circus Studies scholars working with the aim of creating new ways of engaging with the field. Lavers, Burtt, and Bochud investigate the way that Social Circus transforms in response to its i...Lasīt vairāk
Filled with a wide range of exercises and advice from working performers, The Art of Drag: A Practical Performers Handbook is the ultimate guide for all drag kings, queens and queers who want to bring their best to the stage....Lasīt vairāk
The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature: Homo Sapiens is a fascinating description of these two perennial figures in European and North American history, folklore, theatre, literature, arts, and popular culture....Lasīt vairāk
Mixes experiences in art, coding, music, dance, choreography, video, and stage design. Many people relax when coding is introduced as a language, rather than math....Lasīt vairāk
Kinaesthetic Empathy, Ethics and Care develops a philosophy of dance that highlights the psychological, aesthetic and ethical significance of dancer-viewer interaction in the moment of performance....Lasīt vairāk
This is the first book-length study of The Golden Girls, which ran for seven award-winning seasons from 1985-1992 and produced two spin-offs. Offering fresh insights into its cross-generational and cross-cultural appeal, Down the Road and Back Again...Lasīt vairāk
The Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how understanding humans as part of nature alters theology....Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Choreomusicology: Dialogues in Music and Dance is a distinguished collection of essays by leading scholars presenting research that redefines and rethinks the question of what dance and music are, together and apart, and w...Lasīt vairāk
This volume investigates the contributions and achievements of the physically disabled dancer while at the same time challenging and recognizing the inherent inequities in the field of integrated dance in the UK which currently places greater emphas...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores how, from the mid-20th century, a new form of theatre that emerged in Trinidad and Tobago as its playwrights came to mine the Afro-Creole Trinidadian folk milieu....Lasīt vairāk
This book is a seminal seated dance guidebook for global dance and health practitioners. Seated dance is an inclusive and diverse form of physical activity, suitable for all, regardless of age or disability....Lasīt vairāk
This edited collection of essays and artist reflections presents perspectives from arts and humanities researchers exploring how individuals and collectives engage with, relate to and experience environments....Lasīt vairāk
This innovative collection showcases the interconnectedness of translation and performing arts, drawing on examples spanning languages, eras, and modes of performance to argue for the importance of re-envisioning translation beyond writing....Lasīt vairāk
Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, t...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention. Its premise is that, under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds....Lasīt vairāk
The Dancers Handbook offers a holistic exploration of the dance industrys challenges, authored by dancers intimately familiar with its complexities....Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
Choreographing the North examines eleven contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore and ideas of North....Lasīt vairāk
Researching Popular Entertainment is an essential volume for scholars delving into the vibrant yet complex world of popular entertainment. Written by a global network of experts, this book addresses the unique challenges researchers face in this fie...Lasīt vairāk
As an introduction to ballets history, culture, and meanings, this book draws on the latest ballet scholarship to describe the trajectory of a dance form that has risen to global ubiquity and benefited from many diverse influences along the way....Lasīt vairāk
This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico....Lasīt vairāk
This interdisciplinary collection brings together practices and voices from a wide range of global contexts, demonstrating and challenging the breadth of site-specific discourse. It provides a rich palette of perspectives, approaches and ideas for s...Lasīt vairāk
Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, alongside examples of undergraduate research in dance scholarship. This second edition has been updated throughout for current students, with new c...Lasīt vairāk
This accessible book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental in feeling embodied in the world....Lasīt vairāk
This monograph is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeares works from the birth of ballet as an independent art form in the eighteenth century to the present. It focuses on two main questions: How can Shakespeare be danced?, and Ho...Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on works with children who occupy various roles in performance practice that have been shown in UK contexts and festivals over the last two decades. It draws on case studies from theatre, performance, live art and dance that have b...Lasīt vairāk
Teaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the authors theories, practices, and curriculum building of dance improvisation as a technique....Lasīt vairāk
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world....Lasīt vairāk
Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers readers a portrait of the interrelated music, drama and dance productions that characterized this rich period. By bringing together...Lasīt vairāk
The Dance and Opera Stage Managers Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginning to navigate the fields of dance and opera stage management in live performance....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they need to write in order to stay....Lasīt vairāk
This book sheds light on the choreographic practice of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art....Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theatre and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy. It will be of interest to scholars...Lasīt vairāk
This book adapts a cultural-semiotic approach to analyze contemporary circus performances. It offers the first comprehensive documentation and interpretation of the artform based on the semiotic reading theories of cultural, literature, theater, and...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy....Lasīt vairāk
Religious Satire in the Era of New Atheism presents a contemporary account of religious satire as evidenced by the modern art of stand-up comedy....Lasīt vairāk
Relational Improvisation explores the creative exchanges that occur between artistic disciplines through the practice of improvisation in performance....Lasīt vairāk
This book is written with an insiders understanding of the dance world and the expertise of an eating disorder specialist, dietitian, clinician, and educator. This resource provides essential information on nutrition, body image, and eating disorder...Lasīt vairāk
Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises....Lasīt vairāk
This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative processes and formal elements of performance are rendered visible and readable; and performance dramaturgy becomes an expanded practic...Lasīt vairāk
The Female Dancer aims to question dancers relationships with female through the examination and understandings of biological, anatomical, scientific, and self-social identity....Lasīt vairāk
Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space, and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experimentsunique interdisciplinary encounters and performed events generated through collaborations between architects and choreograph...Lasīt vairāk
This book celebrates and builds on Alan Clarke (1956-2021) and Allan Jepsons 2015 book Exploring Community Festivals and Events. It showcases how far the study of community festivals and events has come in the intervening years....Lasīt vairāk
This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods....Lasīt vairāk
In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and low cultural forms in Britain from 1880 to 1940...Lasīt vairāk
