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Gigs
Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City
Gigs provides a fascinating account of a unique victory for musicians against repressive entertainment licensing laws. It provides a much-needed study of the social, political,…
read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34700-6 (Routledge)
Dance Composition
A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making
Dance composition - the discipline that translates ideas into dances - is an important part of dance education. For over twenty years, Dance Composition has… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-87830-197-3 (Theatre Arts Book)
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought provides essential information on, and a critical interpretation of, nineteenth-century thought and nineteenth-century thinkers. The project takes as its temporal… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-24419-0 (Routledge)
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Finding Balance
Fitness, Training, and Health for a Lifetime in Dance
Finding Balance: Fitness, Health, and Training for a Lifetime in Dance gives an overview of issues faced by all performing dancers: injury and treatment; technique… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94339-0 (Routledge)
Transcending Boundaries
My Dancing Life
Transcending Boundaries is an autobiography tracing the multifaceted and wide-ranging career of choreographer, director, performer and professor of dance, Donald McKayle. His chance meeting with… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27016-8 (Routledge)
Edward Bond Letters 5
2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27021-2 (Routledge)
Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre
Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama
This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in performed as well as printed… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33443-3 (Routledge)
Live
Art and Performance
Live Art, or performance, is one of the most controversial and hotly discussed areas of art practice to emerge in the second half of the… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97239-0 (Routledge)
Essentials of Stage Management
Essentials of Stage Management provides a step-by-step guide to a little-seen but essential role in theater. As Nicholas Hytner writes in the foreword to this… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-87830-199-7 (Theatre Arts Book)
Singing and the Actor
Singing and the Actor takes the reader step by step through a practical training programme relevant to the modern singing actor and dancer. A variety… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-87830-198-0 (Theatre Arts Book)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Movement Training for the Modern Actor
By Mark Evans
To be published December 10th 2008
Contemporary British Theatre: The New Left and After
By Meenakshi Ponnuswami
To be published December 31st 2008
Polish Ensemble Theatres
By Grzegorz Ziolkowski
To be published January 30th 2009
Essential Acting
By Brigid Panet
To be published February 17th 2009
AS Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcel
By Alan Perks, Jacqueline Porteous
To be published February 18th 2009