Collects the far-reaching and influential work of an eminent dance critic and scholar. Ann
Daly ranks among the most insightful, articulate dance critics and scholars writing today …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A comprehensive and multifaceted anthology of dance history—ideal for the classroom. This
new collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging …

The 1960s was a pivotal decade in dance, an era of intense experimentation and rich
invention. In this volume an impressive range of dance critics and scholars examine the …

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) …

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 …