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 …

Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have
understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body …

Manning (1993) and Thomas (1995).'In approaching dance scholarship from such
perspectives, there has been a clear trans-ference from the study of dance as culture, in the …

The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance,
Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key …

Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or
process, is a prime subject for cultural analysis. Yet only recently have studies of dance …

Selected writings illuminate a century of international dance. Lynn Garafola has written
some of the most influential historical studies and criticism in the field of dance. Legacies of …

In 1991, when my essay,“On Dance Ethnography,” appeared in this journal, there was a
small body of American research in dance that examined movement in cultural context (1) …

Writing at the dynamic intersection of dance and performance studies. Of the Presence of the
Body gathers nine original essays by eminent scholars in the fields of dance and …

With over 2,600 entries, the second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Dance is a unique
single volume reference on all aspects of dance performance written by two leading dance …