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Black Performance Theory by Thomas F. DeFrantz
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers-many of whom are performers-demonstrates the... -
Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion by Thomas F. DeFrantz 9781137546524
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our... -
Black Performance Theory by Thomas F. DeFrantz 9780822356073
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers-many of whom are performers-demonstrates the... -
Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion by Thomas F. DeFrantz 9781349714094
Booksplease Price: £61.04This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our... -
Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance by Thomas F. DeFrantz 9780299173142
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.72Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. ""Dancing Many Drums"" explores that influence through a groundbreaking... -
Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture by Thomas F. DeFrantz 9780195301717
Booksplease Price: £46.00In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late... -
Curating Crisis by Tom Sellar 9780822368618
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11This issue examines how performance curators are responding to today's crises both within the world of theater and performance and in the broader spheres of politics, economics, and history... -
Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance by Yutian Wong 9780299308742
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77The definition of Asian American dance is as contested as the definition of ""Asian American."" The contributors to this volume address such topics as the role of the 1960s Asian American movement in... -
We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions by Henriette Gunkel
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £27.33A new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of 500 years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach towards the stars... -
Antiracism in Ballet Teaching Kate Mattingly 9781032254197
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with... -
Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line Rachel Carrico 9780252045974
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14On many Sundays, Black New Orleanians dance through city streets in Second Lines. These processions invite would-be spectators to join in, grooving to an ambulatory brass band for several hours... -
Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study by Annie-B Parson 9780819500908
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £31.52A multivoiced dance history book, authored by twelve diverse choreographers In an effort to deepen our understanding of what dance is and how it has functioned throughout human history, this... -
Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line Rachel Carrico 9780252088070
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24On many Sundays, Black New Orleanians dance through city streets in Second Lines. These processions invite would-be spectators to join in, grooving to an ambulatory brass band for several hours... -
Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny: Philosophy in Motion by Philipa Rothfield
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny takes the philosophy of the body into the field of dance, through the lens of subjectivity and via its critique. It draws on dance and performance as its dedicated... -
Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange by Clare Croft 9780199958214
Booksplease Price: £40.58Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the twenty-first century, American dancers toured the globe on... -
Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement by Andre Lepecki
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who... -
Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement by Pil Hansen 9781349557974
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12Ten international dramaturg-scholars advance proposals that reset notions of agency in contemporary dance creation. Dramaturgy becomes driven by artistic inquiry, distributed among collaborating... -
She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body by Melissa Blanco Borelli 9780199968176
Booksplease Price: £42.59She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised... -
Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research by Ben Spatz 9780810146594
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £70.50Enacts a radically interdisciplinary intersectionality to position performance-based research in solidarity with decoloniality This boldly innovative work interrogates the form and meaning of... -
Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research by Ben Spatz 9780810146587
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Enacts a radically interdisciplinary intersectionality to position performance-based research in solidarity with decoloniality This boldly innovative work interrogates the form and meaning of... -
Kaiso!: Writings by and About Katherine Dunham by Veve A. Clark 9780299212742
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42Kaiso, a term of praise that is the calypso equivalent of ""bravo,"" is a fitting title for this definitive and celebratory collection of writings by and about Katherine Dunham, the legendary African... -
Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships by Naomi Macalalad Bragin 9780472056415
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships documents the emergence of new forms of black social and vernacular dance invented by youth living in 1970s California, who helped build the... -
Knowing as Moving: Perception, Memory, and Place Susan Leigh Foster 9781478028901
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £67.54In Knowing as Moving, Susan Leigh Foster theorizes how the act of moving in and through the world creates the potential for individual and collective bodies to connect. Starting from the assertion... -
Debating Sex and Gender by Georgia Warnke 9780195308853
Booksplease Price: £51.33The fifth volume in the Fundamentals of Philosophy Series, Debating Sex and Gender by Georgia Warnke is a concise yet in-depth introduction to contemporary feminist thought on sex and gender... -
Knowing as Moving: Perception, Memory, and Place Susan Leigh Foster 9781478032144
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90In Knowing as Moving, Susan Leigh Foster theorizes how the act of moving in and through the world creates the potential for individual and collective bodies to connect. Starting from the assertion... -
Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships by Naomi Macalalad Bragin 9780472076413
Booksplease Price: £63.25Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships documents the emergence of new forms of black social and vernacular dance invented by youth living in 1970s California, who helped build the... -
Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion by Susan Leigh Foster 9780190933982
Booksplease Price: £42.98Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining... -
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance by Kathy A. Perkins
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American... -
Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common by Harmony Bench 9781517900533
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.15A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world How has the Internet changed dance? Dance performances can now be seen anywhere, can be looped endlessly at user... -
Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation by Jacqueline Shea Murphy 9781517912673
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples In Dancing Indigenous Worlds, Jacqueline Shea Murphy brings contemporary Indigenous dance makers into the... -
Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation by Jacqueline Shea Murphy
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples In Dancing Indigenous Worlds, Jacqueline Shea Murphy brings contemporary Indigenous dance makers into the... -
Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common by Harmony Bench 9781517900526
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £70.37A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world How has the Internet changed dance? Dance performances can now be seen anywhere, can be looped endlessly at user... -
Body Impossible: Desmond Richardson and the Politics of Virtuosity by Ariel Osterweis 9780190645816
Booksplease Price: £89.66Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the career of dancer Desmond Richardson. A virtuoso for the ages, Richardson is renowned... -
Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance by Christi Jay Wells
Booksplease Price: £31.45Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. Author Christi Jay... -
Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance by Christi Jay Wells 9780197559277
Booksplease Price: £114.88Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. Author Christi Jay... -
The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up by Dr. Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian 9781501394300
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s... -
Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings Michael Kelly 9781350294622
Booksplease Price: £29.91Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy... -
Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings by Michael Kelly 9781350294639
Booksplease Price: £70.89Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy... -
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance by Ananya Chatterjea 9780230114098
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £39.20Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances... -
Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History by Constance Valis Hill 9780190225384
Booksplease Price: £53.49Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and...