Devised by choreographer Liz Lerman in 1990, Critical Response Process® (CRP) is an internationally recognized method for giving and getting feedback on creative works in progress. …
Site-specific expressive ecologies sustain Korean folk culture in a globalizing worldThe madang is a key space and concept for Korean drummers and dancers. Literally a village …
An Empty Room is a transformative journey through butoh, an avant-garde form of performance art that originated in Japan in the late 1950's and is now a global phenomenon. This is …
Staging Brazil: Choreographies of Capoeira is the first in-depth study of the processes of legitimization and globalization of capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian combat game practiced …
In the wake of the blockbuster television success of "Dancing with the Stars," competitive ballroom dance has become a subject of new fascination-and renewed scrutiny. Known by its …
The Grand Union was a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became some of the biggest names in postmodern dance: Yvonne Rainer, Trisha …
The Dancer Within is a collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and entertainers, many of them world-famous. …
First critical biography of this visionary artist written by a dance scholar.Simone Forti, groundbreaking improvisor, has spent a lifetime weaving together the movement of her mind …
How NEA funding policies have shaped the field of danceFunding Bodies is the first scholarly study of NEA to focus specifically on dance. It departs from a choreographic question: …
This is the first complete biography of T. Balasaraswati (1918-1984), a dancer and musician from southern India who became recognized worldwide as one of the great performing …
