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21. The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy

    Life Is Dance

    Edited by Sharon Chaiklin, Hilda Wengrower

    The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy offers both a broad understanding and an in-depth view of how and where dance therapy can be used to produce change. The chapters go beyond the basics that characterize much of the literature on dance/movement therapy, and each of the topics...

    Published July 27th 2009 by Routledge
22. Contemporary Choreography

    A Critical Reader

    Edited by Jo Butterworth, Liesbeth Wildschut

    This innovative text provides a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and traditional understandings of dance making. Contemporary Choreography features contributions by practitioners and researchers from Europe, America, Africa, Australasia and...

    Published May 27th 2009 by Routledge
23. Further Steps 2

    Fourteen Choreographers on What's the R.A.G.E. in Modern Dance, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Constance Kreemer

    Further Steps 2 brings together New York’s foremost choreographers – among them MacArthur ‘Genius’ award winners Meredith Monk and Bill T. Jones – to discuss the past, present and future of dance in the US. In a series of exclusive and enlightening interviews, this diverse selection...

    Published June 3rd 2008 by Routledge
24. Dance Discourses

    Keywords in Dance Research

    Edited by Susanne Franco, Marina Nordera

    Focusing on politics, gender, and identities, a group of international dance scholars provide a broad overview of new methodological approaches – with specific case studies – and how they can be applied to the study of ballet and modern dance. With an introduction exploring the...

    Published November 27th 2007 by Routledge
25. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

    Edited by Patricia Vertinsky, Jennifer Hargreaves

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

    During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the...

    Published October 10th 2006 by Routledge
26. A Queer History of the Ballet

    By Peter Stoneley

    Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet. Presenting a series of historical...

    Published October 5th 2006 by Routledge
27. Judson Dance Theater

    Performative Traces

    By Ramsay Burt

    Published June 28th 2006 by Routledge
28. Dance Movement Therapy

    Theory, Research and Practice, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Helen Payne

    What can dance movement contribute to psychotherapy? This thoroughly updated edition of Dance Movement Therapy echoes the increased world-wide interest in dance movement therapy and makes a strong contribution to the emerging awareness of the nature of embodiment in psychotherapy. Recent research...

    Published May 24th 2006 by Routledge
29. Making Video Dance

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen

    By Katrina McPherson

    Since the advent of digital video technology, ’dance on camera’ has become an increasingly popular, and important genre of dance. This is the first ever ’how-to’ manual for choreographers, dancers and students who want to make dance films. Specifically written from a personal experience of a...

    Published May 3rd 2006 by Routledge
30. Yes? No! Maybe…

    Seductive Ambiguity in Dance

    By Emilyn Claid

    Covering fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, Yes? No! Maybe is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance. Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic theory...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge