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Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, this enquiry... Læs mere
Arguing that social dance haunted the interwar imagination, Zimring reveals the powerful figurative importance of music and dance, both in... Læs mere
This volume explores comedy as a place where gender and sexuality, through performance, challenge sexist and heteronormative forces in Western... Læs mere
This text examines the revolution in American dance between 1932 and 1992, aiming to evoke the excitement of this period of change and describing the roles of key creative personalities such as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Jose Limon and Hanya Holm.
This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities.
Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of the Argentine tango social dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered by Istanbul despite the conservative rule of Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdogan.
Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi is the first book in any language entirely devoted to a historical inquiry into Chinese theatre through Nuoxi and Mulianxi, the two most representative and predominant forms of Chinese temple theatre.
This introduction to popular media culture in Britain discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important processes.
Katherine Liepe-Levinson has spent three years researching heterosexual female and male striptease in North America: this is the first full length theoretically informed study of striptease.
Ballet Beyond Tradition reconciles age-old conflicts to bring a new awareness to ballet teachers of the importance of a holistic training regimen that draws on the best that modern dance and movement-studies offers.
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art now spreading over the rest of the world and this book, the only complete history of the art in the English language, traces the history of the martial art and examines its influence.