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1. Fifty Contemporary Choreographers, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Martha Bremser, Lorna Sanders

   A unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent contemporary choreographers, this fully updated new edition includes many new names in the field of choreography, alongside those considered masters of the modern age. Representing a wide range of dance genres, each entry locates...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-38082-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Laban Sourcebook

   Edited by Dick McCaw

   Rudolf Laban is to dance what Stanislavski is to acting. He is often described as the most important movement theorist of the twentieth century, and probably the most important theorist in dance studies to date. His influence is evident in the work of Mary Wigman, Kurt Joos, Sophie Taeuber-Arp,...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-54332-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance

   By Susan Foster

   "This is a urgently needed book – as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan Foster writes a thoroughly compelling argument" - André Lepecki, New York University "May well prove to be one of Susan Foster’s most...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-59656-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   A Choreographer's Handbook

   By Jonathan Burrows

   On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking" On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis" A Choreographer’s Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually...

   May 2010 | 978-0-415-55530-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   April 2010 | 978-1-84872-024-4 | Hardback (Psychology Press)
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   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...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-56553-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Invisible Connections: Dance, Choreography and Internet Communities

   By Sita Popat

   The first and only book to focus on dance on the Internet, Sita Popat’s fascinating Invisible Connections examines how Internet and communication technologies offer dance and theatre new platforms for creating and performing work, and how opportunities for remote interaction and collaboration are...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-57632-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Alexandra Carter, Janet O'Shea

   The second edition of The Routledge Dance Studies Reader offers fresh critical perspectives on classic and modern dance forms, including ballroom, tango, Hip-hop, site-specific performance, and disability in dance. Alexandra Carter and Janet O’Shea deliver a substantially revised and updated...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-48599-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Dance Matters: Performing India on Local and Global Stages

   Edited by Pallabi Chakravorty, Nilanjana Gupta

   This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-55375-9 | Hardback (Routledge India)

10. Pedagogy and Human Movement: Theory, Practice, Research

    By Richard Tinning

    Across the full range of human movement studies and their many sub-disciplines, established institutional practices and forms of pedagogy are used to (re)produce valued knowledge about human movement. Pedagogy and Human Movement explores this pedagogy in detail to reveal its applications and...

    September 2009 | 978-0-415-42844-6 | Hardback (Routledge)