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You are currently browsing 1–10 of 121 new and published books in the subject of Dance — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.
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You are currently browsing 1–10 of 121 new and published books in the subject of Dance — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.
For books that are not yet published; please browse forthcoming books.
Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’...
Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
Series: The New Sociology
In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting,...
Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Within qualitative research in the social sciences, the last decade has witnessed a growing interest in the use of visual methods. Visual Methods in Physical Culture is the first book in the field of sport and exercise sciences dedicated to harnessing the potential of using visual methods within...
Published October 27th 2012 by Routledge
Dance has always been an important aspect of all human cultures, and the study of human movement and action has become a topic of increasing relevance over the last decade, bringing dance into the focus of the cognitive sciences. This book discusses the wide range of interrelations between body...
Published October 21st 2012 by Psychology Press
Pina Bausch’s work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina...
Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance...
Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
Mixed methods research techniques, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements, have become well established throughout the social, behavioural and natural sciences. This is the first book to focus on the application of mixed methods research in the movement sciences, specifically in sport...
Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Music
In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music and sonic arts, and music theory, transgressing...
Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Choreography and Dance Studies Series
Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge