Combining urban experiences and experimental dance to develop metropolitan dance texts
Examining how changes in dance amid the Greek financial crisis altered perceptions and discourses of Greece’s culture and national identity
Explores the collective making of black social and vernacular dance in the 1970s, precursor to today’s global hip hop culture
Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance
Exploring museum-based choreography as a contemporary art medium
Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation
A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance
A major theoretical work by Brazilian dance scholar Christine Greiner explores the political relevance of bodily arts in the age of neoliberal globalization
Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark
The dynamics between gender and body in Weimar Germany explored through images and case studies
Dance and live art in contemporary South Africa and beyond
The first book-length exploration of drag dance in the U.S.
Explores the relationship between the documentation of a live performance and the audience’s experience of it
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
20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture—from the inside
The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent
An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social classes and racial groups interact
Fundamentals of movement for actors, conductors, musicians, yogis . . . and everyone else
A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America
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
An indispensable guide for the study of performance, by France's leading theater critic, now available in English
A prescient critic's chronicle of the rise of performance artists Whoopi Goldberg, Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, and Tim Miller, among others.