(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...
This book presents a new way of understanding verbal humour. Drawing on contemporary theories of language and mind, it explores and explains how the language of humour works both in a text and in a reader. Through investigation of carefully consider...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...
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: 31-May-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...
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, Rogιrio 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...
(Pub. Date: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: William Morrow, ISBN-13: 9780063426955)
Jane Leeveswho starred as Frasiers beloved and eccentric Daphne Moontells her unique and intimate story of coming into her own on one of the most successful sitcoms ever made. Over the course of more than a decade, Jan...More info...
What has Ben Elton done?Hes written the most eagerly anticipated show business autobiography of the year. Thats what.And prior to that? Well, hes pretty much done everything and worked with everybody and now hes telling the who...More info...
A Waterstones Best History Book 2025BBC History MagazineLearned, entertaining and highly approachable BOB MORTIMERA treat ALICE LOXTONFive 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...
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...
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...More info...
This book sheds light on the choreographic practice of French choreographer Jιrτme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art....More info...
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....More info...
Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations explores how people experience diaspora not only through geography or shared histories of exile and displacement, but also through the body itself. Drawing upon extensive archival mat...More info...
Bliss and Dance explores the four major ballets of composer Sir Arthur Bliss (18911975) who was at the centre of British musical life for over 50 years.Bliss and Dance explores the four major ballets of composer Sir Arthur Blis...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 regions 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 regions 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: 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: 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...
This book presents a new way of understanding verbal humour. Drawing on contemporary theories of language and mind, it explores and explains how the language of humour works both in a text and in a reader. Through investigation of carefully consider...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), ISBN-13: 9780857507198)
From comedian and TikTok star Kevin James Thornton comes a hilarious and heartfelt story of growing up in a Christian fundamentalist church, turning trauma into comedy, and finding your own way. Growing up in the 90s in a small town in In...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...
This volume is the first to examine the impact, themes, and cultural significance of the Canadian comedy Letterkenny. Using the series as a lens, essays address subjects such as warrior ethos, the grief cycle, the relationship between Ca...More info...
A choreographic manifesto for life in motion, offering new ways to navigate change and thrive amidst instabilityA sequel to Hiking the Horizontal, Liz Lermans Shape and Momentum: An Insomniacs Guide for a World in Consta...More info...
This wide-ranging collection of essays considers works on the comedy of war and conflict from the very beginning of film in the 19th century to some of the most recent works. Topics include how films and television are made, from the creative c...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: 31-May-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...
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...
