Dance

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Dancing with the Modernist City

Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900

By Wesley Lim
Subjects: German Studies, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance

Combining urban experiences and experimental dance to develop metropolitan dance texts

Performing the Greek Crisis

Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity

By Natalie Zervou
Subjects: Dance, History, European History
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Examining how changes in dance amid the Greek financial crisis altered perceptions and discourses of Greece’s culture and national identity

Kinethic California

Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships

By Naomi Macalalad Bragin
Subjects: Dance, Cultural Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Explores the collective making of black social and vernacular dance in the 1970s, precursor to today’s global hip hop culture

Inhabiting the Impossible

Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico

Edited by Susan Homar & nibia pastrana santiago
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance

The Persistence of Dance

Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art

By Erin Brannigan
Subjects: Dance, Art, Art History

Exploring museum-based choreography as a contemporary art medium

Democracy Moving

Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past

By Ariel Nereson
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation

Moving Islands

Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific

By Diana Looser
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Art, Dance
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance

The Body in Crisis

New Pathways and Short Circuits in Representation

Foreword by Cristina Fernandes Rosa, Translated by Christopher Larkosh and Grace Holleran

By Christine Greiner
Translated by Christopher Larkosh & Grace Holleran
Contributions by Cristina Fernandes Rosa
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Dance, Philosophy
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

A major theoretical work by Brazilian dance scholar Christine Greiner explores the political relevance of bodily arts in the age of neoliberal globalization

Queer Nightlife

By Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark

Marking Modern Movement

Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic

By Susan Funkenstein
Subjects: German Studies, Theater and Performance, Dance, Art, Gender Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The dynamics between gender and body in Weimar Germany explored through images and case studies

Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice

By Catherine Cole
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, African Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Dance and live art in contemporary South Africa and beyond

Corporeal Politics

Dancing East Asia

By Katherine Mezur & Emily Wilcox
Subjects: Dance, Asian Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

The political power of performing bodies

Ishtyle

Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife

By Kareem Khubchandani
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay nightlife as sociopolitical performance

The Bodies of Others

Drag Dances and Their Afterlives

By Selby Wynn Schwartz
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The first book-length exploration of drag dance in the U.S.

Reactivations

Essays on Performance and Its Documentation

By Philip Auslander
Subjects: Art, Art History, Theater and Performance, Media Studies, New Media, Dance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Explores the relationship between the documentation of a live performance and the audience’s experience of it

Latin Numbers

Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance

By Brian Eugenio Herrera
Subjects: American Studies, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Media Studies, Dance

From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group

Butch Queens Up in Pumps

Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

By Marlon M. Bailey
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture—from the inside

Performing Queer Latinidad

Dance, Sexuality, Politics

By Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent

Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

By Umi Vaughan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Music, Dance, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies

An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social classes and racial groups interact

Physical Expression and the Performing Artist

Moving Beyond the Plateau

By Jerald C. Schwiebert
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Dance

Fundamentals of movement for actors, conductors, musicians, yogis . . . and everyone else

I Want to Be Ready

Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom

By Danielle Goldman
Subjects: Dance, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies

A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America

Bodies in Commotion

Disability and Performance

By Carrie Sandahl & Philip Auslander
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

The first collection to explore the lively intersection of performance studies and disability studies, provoking new ways of looking at body, space, spectatorship, and identity

Analyzing Performance

Theater, Dance, and Film

By Patrice Pavis
Translated by A. David Williams
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Dance

An indispensable guide for the study of performance, by France's leading theater critic, now available in English

Subversive Expectations

Performance Art and Paratheater in New York, 1976-85

By Sally Banes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance

A prescient critic's chronicle of the rise of performance artists Whoopi Goldberg, Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, and Tim Miller, among others.

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