Dance

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Dancing Opacity

Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Queer Possibility in Senegal

By Amy E. Swanson
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, African Studies

How contemporary dancers recalibrate constructions of gender, sexuality, and race while navigating the international dance circuit

A Beautiful Fight

The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia

By Esther Viola Kurtz
Subjects: Dance, Music, Ethnomusicology, African American Studies, Latin American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Music and Social Justice

A critical ethnography of Black and white participation in Afro-Brazilian music and dance

Shipping Out

Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea

By Anita Gonzalez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, American Studies, Class Studies

How race, performance, and labor interconnect on Caribbean cruise ships through the lens of a destination lecturer

Creating with Roots

Contemporary Chinese National Folk Dance Choreography

Translated by Emily Wilcox

By Rui Xu
Translated by Emily Wilcox
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Dance, Cultural Studies

Navigating tradition and innovation in Chinese national folk dance, available in English for the first time 

Dancing on the Fault Lines of History

Selected Essays

By Susan Manning
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Encapsulating a career of studying modern dance

A Queer History of Flamenco

Diversions, Transitions, and Returns in Flamenco Dance (1808–2018)

Translated by Ryan Rockmore

By Fernando López Rodríguez
Translated by Ryan Rockmore
Subjects: Dance, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance

Revealing the LGBTQ+ lives of Flamenco artists

Fantasies of Ito Michio

By Tara Rodman
Subjects: Dance, Asian Studies, Japan, Theater and Performance, Biography
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Chronicles Ito Michio’s career and explores how fantasy sustains a life disrupted by war, racialization, and imperialism

Dancing with the Modernist City

Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900

By Wesley Lim
Subjects: German Studies, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance

Combining urban experiences and modern dance to develop metropolitan dance texts

Performing the Greek Crisis

Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity

By Natalie Zervou
Subjects: Dance, History, European History
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Examining how changes in dance amid the Greek financial crisis altered perceptions and discourses of Greece’s culture and national identity

Kinethic California

Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships

By Naomi Macalalad Bragin
Subjects: Dance, Cultural Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Explores the making of black social and vernacular dance in the 1970s, precursor to today’s global hip hop/streetdance culture

Inhabiting the Impossible

Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico

Edited by Susan Homar & nibia pastrana santiago
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance

The Persistence of Dance

Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art

By Erin Brannigan
Subjects: Dance, Art, Art History, Theater and Performance

Exploring museum-based choreography as a contemporary art medium

Democracy Moving

Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past

By Ariel Nereson
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation

Moving Islands

Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific

By Diana Looser
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Art, Dance
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance

The Body in Crisis

New Pathways and Short Circuits in Representation

Foreword by Cristina Fernandes Rosa, Translated by Christopher Larkosh and Grace Holleran

By Christine Greiner
Translated by Christopher Larkosh & Grace Holleran
Contributions by Cristina Fernandes Rosa
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Dance, Philosophy
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

A major theoretical work by Brazilian dance scholar Christine Greiner explores the political relevance of bodily arts in the age of neoliberal globalization

Queer Nightlife

By Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark

Marking Modern Movement

Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic

By Susan Funkenstein
Subjects: German Studies, Theater and Performance, Dance, Art, Gender Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The dynamics between gender and body in Weimar Germany explored through images and case studies

Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice

By Catherine Cole
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, African Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Dance and live art in contemporary South Africa and beyond

Corporeal Politics

Dancing East Asia

Edited by Katherine Mezur & Emily Wilcox
Subjects: Dance, Asian Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

The political power of performing bodies

Ishtyle

Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife

By Kareem Khubchandani
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay nightlife as sociopolitical performance

The Bodies of Others

Drag Dances and Their Afterlives

By Selby Wynn Schwartz
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The first book-length exploration of drag dance in the U.S.

Reactivations

Essays on Performance and Its Documentation

By Philip Auslander
Subjects: Art, Art History, Theater and Performance, Media Studies, New Media, Dance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Explores the relationship between the documentation of a live performance and the audience’s experience of it

Latin Numbers

Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance

By Brian Eugenio Herrera
Subjects: American Studies, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Media Studies, Dance

From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group

Butch Queens Up in Pumps

Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

By Marlon M. Bailey
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture—from the inside

Performing Queer Latinidad

Dance, Sexuality, Politics

By Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent

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