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A Queer History of the Ballet

By Peter Stoneley

Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97280-2 (Routledge)

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The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain

A Bibliography of Criticism and Documentation

Edited by Philip B. Thomason, Ceri Byrne

Previously published as a special issue of The Bulletin of Spanish Studies, The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain is the second in a series of research…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40048-0 (Routledge)

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Theatre of Movement and Gesture

By Jacques Lecoq

Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35944-3 (Routledge)

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Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio

Theory, Text and Performance

By Don Weingust

Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the texts of the first…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97916-0 (Routledge)

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Performance and Cognition

Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn

Edited by Bruce McConachie, F. Elizabeth Hart

This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-76384-4 (Routledge)

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Jacques Copeau

By Mark Evans

Part of our successful Routledge Performance Practitioners series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century, this book examines Jacques Copeau; a…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35435-6 (Routledge)

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Judson Dance Theater

Performative Traces

By Ramsay Burt

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97574-2 (Routledge)

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Contemporary Theatres in Europe

A Critical Companion

Edited by Joe Kelleher, Nicholas Ridout

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32940-8 (Routledge)

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Performers and Their Arts

Folk, Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India

Edited by Simon Charsley, Laxmi N. Kadekar

Introduction Part I: Caste, Community and performance

    1. A ritual performance of Kerala, Vayala Vasudevan Pillai
    2. The Patuas of Bengal, Makbul Islam
    3. Bards and goddesses: The&8230;
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      2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40113-5 (Routledge India)

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Managing Performance Stress

Models and Methods

By David Pargman

Over the past 16 years, new theories and models have emerged in the stress and anxiety knowledge base regarding the unique forms associated with performance.…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95253-8 (Routledge)

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