Fabrications offers a field-expanding approach to the costume archive that gives new authority to the physical record and material culture of dance artefacts. Imaginatively organized according to a chronology of fabric--to invoke design/styl...More info...
This book brings together a diverse array of perspectives and histories that weave together notions of Black-ness, British-ness, and danc...More info...
K-pop Dance Education is the first comprehensive guide to teaching, studying, and researching K-pop dance in global contexts.Through ethnographic fieldwork with fifty K-pop dance professionals, idols, agency CEOs, and choreographers...More info...
K-pop Dance Education is the first comprehensive guide to teaching, studying, and researching K-pop dance in global contexts.Through ethnographic fieldwork with fifty K-pop dance professionals, idols, agency CEOs, and choreographers...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300243840)
An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literature The French dance criticism of the Russian émigré André Levinson (18871933) set a new standard for the genre by regaling readers with a heady mix of formalist acumen, h...More info...
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...More info...
The Architecture of Exhibitions embarks on a comprehensive exploration of creativity and design innovation within exhibition spaces. It describes the fundamental principles of exhibition design, tracing the origins of creativity and conside...More info...
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...More info...
Since it first mesmerised Western audiences, Balinese masked dance–drama (Topeng) has drawn sustained scholarly attention. Yet until now, much of that attention has been filtered through non-Balinese perspectives. Telling Other Tales seeks...More info...
(Pub. Date: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108493819)
Spanish music is universally popular but seldom well understood. For the first time in English, in a single volume, and in a style that will be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike, leading experts survey a rich legacy of classical mu...More info...
(Pub. Date: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526179951)
This book uses a wide range of textual, visual and material evidence to offer the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. Its unique methodology, combining the tools of design history and the concerns of politica...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book, ISBN-13: 9781837932641)
The brilliant new Joseph Spector locked-room mystery. Spector investigates paranormal goings-on and murder at a former World War One hospital....More info...
BASED ON BOB MORTIMER AND ANDY DAWSONS HILARIOUS HIT PODCAST ATHLETICO MINCE If you like football but despair of its endless humourless self-importance, youll love this The Guardian Fans of surreal comedy will find plenty...More info...
Laura LaPlaca, Anya Montiel, Ryan Lintelman, Mel Brooks, Laura LaPlaca, Ryan Lintelman, Jon Grinspan, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Ashley Oliva Mayor, John W. Troutman...
(Pub. Date: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978837966)
More than just gags and giggles, comedy is a powerful force, reflecting our hopes and fears, helping us understand social and political changes, and creating a shared national culture. In this book, historians from the Smithsonian Institution and Nat...More info...
Series: Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts
(Pub. Date: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009648226)
Dialogue is conceived of as verbal interaction between different people or groups such as spoken text between actors in performance. This Element focuses on how dialogue is manifested in dance and somatic practices, through sensory relationality a...More info...
Dialogue is conceived of as verbal interaction between different people or groups such as spoken text between actors in performance. This Element focuses on how dialogue is manifested in dance and somatic practices, through sensory relationality a...More info...
The Routledge Handbook of Music and Dance Performances in the Ancient Mediterranean: An Interpretive Approach brings together research from the subdiscipline of archaeomusicology, or music archaeology, with new perspectives from art history...More info...
The Dancers Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide for Navigating Your Dance Career helps dancers in any stage of their career and young dancers prepare themselves to leap from their initial training to the professional world and begin their journe...More info...
The Dancers Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide for Navigating Your Dance Career helps dancers in any stage of their career and young dancers prepare themselves to leap from their initial training to the professional world and begin their journe...More info...
This book maps the networks of puppetry used in applied theatre settings in relation to ecologies and communities. Drawing on thirty years of making theatre with objects, this field-defining book maps the terrain of applied puppetry....More info...
An auto-ethnographic account of a choreographic praxis developed outside of Western practice, which engages with identity, decoloniality and transformation from a feminist perspective....More info...
(Pub. Date: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526191922)
This book offers a touching tribute to the work of Caroline Aherne, whose unforgettable characters and ground-breaking programmes remain much-loved years after her untimely death. A thoughtful exploration of the work of this unique comedi...More info...
Vanessa L. Rogers, Lisa de Alwis, Janet K Page, Vanessa L. Rogers, Janet K Page, Thomas A Bauman, Daniel Brandenburg, Irene Brandenburg, Rogério Budasz, Michael Burden...
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
(Pub. Date: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781648251399)
Twelve original essays that explore the rich interplay of opera, ballet, and culture in eighteenth-century Europe and beyond and offer new insights into such important figures as Mozart and the castrato Farinelli....More info...
This book tells the historical journey of migrant ballroom dancers from post-Soviet countries to North America, supported by interviews with these dancers about education, identity, and social integration. Through movement analysis, author David Out...More info...
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...More info...
What has Ben Elton done?He’s written the most eagerly anticipated show business autobiography of the year. That’s what.And prior to that? Well, he’s pretty much done everything and worked with everybody and now he’s telling the who...More info...
A Waterstones Best History Book 2025BBC History Magazine‘Learned, entertaining and highly approachable’ BOB MORTIMER‘A treat’ ALICE LOXTON‘Five stars from me…’ AL MURRAYAn unmissable collaboration between two comedy legends – an irresistible, family-...More info...
Investigating the critical relationship between recovery, fatigue, working conditions, and societal pressures in the performing arts, this comprehensive text brings together international experts from psychology, medicine, and sport science. It hi...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081571)
Revealing Merce Cunninghams creative processes as inspiration for todays dancers and choreographers In this book, former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company detail the technique classes, rehearsal procedures, and compositional a...More info...
Fabrications offers a field-expanding approach to the costume archive that gives new authority to the physical record and material culture of dance artefacts. Imaginatively organized according to a chronology of fabric--to invoke design/styl...More info...
This book brings together a diverse array of perspectives and histories that weave together notions of Black-ness, British-ness, and danc...More info...
K-pop Dance Education is the first comprehensive guide to teaching, studying, and researching K-pop dance in global contexts.Through ethnographic fieldwork with fifty K-pop dance professionals, idols, agency CEOs, and choreographers...More info...
K-pop Dance Education is the first comprehensive guide to teaching, studying, and researching K-pop dance in global contexts.Through ethnographic fieldwork with fifty K-pop dance professionals, idols, agency CEOs, and choreographers...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300243840)
An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literature The French dance criticism of the Russian émigré André Levinson (18871933) set a new standard for the genre by regaling readers with a heady mix of formalist acumen, h...More info...
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...More info...
The Architecture of Exhibitions embarks on a comprehensive exploration of creativity and design innovation within exhibition spaces. It describes the fundamental principles of exhibition design, tracing the origins of creativity and conside...More info...
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...More info...
Since it first mesmerised Western audiences, Balinese masked dance–drama (Topeng) has drawn sustained scholarly attention. Yet until now, much of that attention has been filtered through non-Balinese perspectives. Telling Other Tales seeks...More info...
(Pub. Date: 16-Jun-2026, Calendar, Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781806940882)
An exquisite calendar featuring incredible photography of some of the most vibrant and visually stunning performances from The Royal Ballet to grace Londons Royal Opera House. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous...More info...
(Pub. Date: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108493819)
Spanish music is universally popular but seldom well understood. For the first time in English, in a single volume, and in a style that will be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike, leading experts survey a rich legacy of classical mu...More info...
A sweeping cultural history of the dancing that defined New York CityThroughout the twentieth century, in theaters, ballrooms, and nightclubs, dancers blazed trails of resistance and revolution. From the exuberant endurance of dance...More info...
Nikoli A. Attai, Nikoli A. Attai, Sue Ann Barratt, Judy Grant, Rosamond S King, Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Angelique V Nixon, Kai Barratt, Ryan Persadie, Sue Ann Barratt...
Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region’s dominant gender and sexuality politics within the C...More info...
Nikoli A. Attai, Nikoli A. Attai, Sue Ann Barratt, Judy Grant, Rosamond S King, Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Angelique V Nixon, Kai Barratt, Ryan Persadie, Sue Ann Barratt...
Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
(Pub. Date: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978846616)
Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region’s dominant gender and sexuality politics within the C...More info...
(Pub. Date: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526179951)
This book uses a wide range of textual, visual and material evidence to offer the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. Its unique methodology, combining the tools of design history and the concerns of politica...More info...
(Pub. Date: 09-Jun-2026, Calendar, Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781806941186)
An exquisite calendar featuring behind-the-scenes photography of some of the dancers from The Royal Ballet rehearsing for their performances. Informative text accompanies each work in this mini wall calendar and the datepad features previous and nex...More info...
(Pub. Date: 09-Jun-2026, Diary or journal, Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781806942183)
Produced in partnership with The Royal Ballet, this beautiful and practical month-to-view year planner features on its cover Joseph Sissens and Akane Takada in rehearsal for Romeo and Juliet. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packagi...More info...
