The Body, the Dance and the Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History, Paperback - Brynn Wein Shiovitz

DescriptionThis collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, r...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Steve (Brunel University) DixonIllustration(s): 235 illus.; 235 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 828Co...

Monsters in Performance boasts an impressive range of contemporary essays that delve into topical themes such as race, gender, and disability, to e...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 384Collection: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and EconomyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 228 ...

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Classical music shows a close relationship to language, and both musicology and philosophy have tended to approach music from that angle, exploring...

Reducere. Fragmentation and Redemption is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the over...

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Katherine ProfetaDramaturgy in Motion innovatively examines the work of the dramaturg in contemporary dance and movement pe...

This book has been published to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Erasmus Prize and underline the importance of the four laureates who recei...

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The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law. It will be essential reading for academics and ...

Reducere. North Dakota is regarded as flyover country, but extraordinary narratives play out on this improbable Great Plains landscape. North Dakota is the h...

This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

Reducere. In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of...

The ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe during the Second World War have mainly been seen as lawless spaces marked b...

A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intract...

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This book confronts and criticises the way in which the dominating concept of performance has been used in Art Theory, Performance- and Dance Studi...

Reducere. In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account ...

Reducere. In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether r...

Reducere. New Iberia was founded by a handful of Spaniards in the spring of 1779. In the more than two hundred years that have elapsed since that event, the ...

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Reducere. North Dakota is regarded as flyover country, but extraordinary narratives play out on this improbable Great Plains landscape. North Dakota is the h...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume of essays is the first comprehensive publication in English of the work of Miyake Hitoshi, a distinguished scholar of Shugen...

Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciou...

Centering on contemporary synaesthetic and multimodal works, Through the Prism of the Senses examines new theory and practice in body-based arts an...

Alex Katz's long-standing fascination with dance and collaborations with renowned writers and choreographers has yielded some of his most complex c...

Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor(s): Savala NolanNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 213 x 19Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Hayden WhiteNumber of pages: 282Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 21Cover type: Paperback...

This volume brings together a collection of recent essays on the philosophy and theory of history. Sitting at the intersection of philosophy and hi...

Reducere. The Russian dancer and teacher Vladimir Stepanov (1866 - 1896) developed a system of human movement notation based on the principles of music notat...

Reducere. During the American colonial period, what would become the Midwest was the "backcountry, " or the area behind the coastal population centers. It wa...