From its beginnings as an alternative and dissident form of dance training in the 1960s, Somatics emerged at the end of the twentieth century as one of the most

Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking d

This book is about dance’s relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies work with the micromovements elicited by language’s affective forces,

This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on co

"Along with the rock music of [the late '60s and early '70s], dancing both reinforced and crystalized an image of the self: independent yet communal, free, sens