Dance Books

New and Published Books

1. Preserving Dance Across Time and Space

   Edited by Lynn Brooks, Joellen Meglin

   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
2. The Body and Everyday Life

   By Helen Thomas

   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
3. Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

   Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik

   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
4. The World of Physical Culture in Sport and Exercise

   Visual Methods for Qualitative Research

   Edited by Cassandra Phoenix, Brett Smith

   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
5. The Neurocognition of Dance

   Mind, Movement and Motor Skills

   Edited by Bettina Bläsing, Martin Puttke, Thomas Schack

   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
6. The Pina Bausch Sourcebook

   The Making of Tanztheater

   Edited by Royd Climenhaga

   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
7. Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies

   Edited by Bruce Henderson, Noam Ostrander

   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
8. Mixed Methods Research in the Movement Sciences

   Case Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Dance

   Edited by Oleguer Camerino, Marta Castaner, Teresa Anguera

   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
9. Bodily Expression in Electronic Music

   Perspectives on Reclaiming Performativity

   Edited by Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel, Andreas Dorschel

   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
10. Dancing in the Vortex

    The Story of Ida Rubinstein

    By Vicki Woolf

    Series: Choreography and Dance Studies Series

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge