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 …

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 …

WHY DO WE THINK OF DANCE AS LIBERATING? It seems to me that there is a strong but
for the most part unexamined belief in the equation dance= freedom, which dates …

This book takes an innovative approach to dance analysis, looking at issues in the
interpretation and reading of dances. Building on Janet Adshead-Lansdale's Dance …

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 …

The dissertation approaches Western theatre dance as a semiotic. Using methodologies
adapted from structuralist and post-structuralist criticism, it develops a theory of dance …

This paper undertakes a critical re-examination of the ways in which dance-making
relationships between the dancer and the choreographer in American modern dance have …

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 …

A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene
Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer …

Both the identity of dance and that of theory are at risk as soon as the two intertwine. This
anthology collects observations by choreographers and scholars, dancers, dramaturges and …