The book is divided into three sections, each structured around a keyword and key topic in
current dance scholarship. The essays cover genres such as modern and contemporary …

The first edition of the Routledge Dance Studies Reader (1998) came out at a time that, in
retrospect, appears pivotal for dance studies. The period from the late 1980s to the early …

In Researching Dance, an introduction to research methods in dance addressed primarily to
graduate students, the editors explore dance as evolutional, defining it in view of its intrinsic …

In the mid-1990s several articles appeared in the dance literature calling for a greater
alliance between dance scholarship and cultural studies. More recently, dance scholarship …

Futures of Dance Studies is an outrageously arrogant title. Yet this anthology of essays by
28 early-career scholars demonstrates the vitality and dynamism of dance studies, a field …

The formation of what Randy Martin has called “critical dance studies”(1998) has gained
increased momentum over the past decade. Martin's notion of critical dance studies clarified …

This paper focuses on a consideration of certain aspects of developments in dance research
that have taken place over the past several years that bear witness to a shift of interests …

Introduction on us to remember the pioneers of our field. Ethnographers of dance are now
coming not Uttara Coorlawala, writing not as an ethnogjust from Europe and America, but …

This reflective essay traces a pathway through dance, beginning with the early influences in
dance training and scholarship, through to building a University dance programme and …

In this essay I propose new initiatives I hope to see in US dance studies in the next decade.
Rather than attempting a comprehensive literature survey, or citing all possible relevant …