Illustrated with a wealth of photographs and designs for decor and costumes, most never before published, AUSTRALIA DANCES: CREATING AUSTRALIAN DANCE 1945-1965

Minimalism, savagery, the raw and the cooked, the primal and the pre-verbal, Elvis’s hips, The Rite of Spring . . . Earth Dances is an original investigation

This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance

Dances and music associated with voyages to the Pacific in the 18th century and with life in the early years of the Australian colony.

This book is an analysis of the textual representation of dance in the Australian novel since the late 1890s. It examines how the act of dance is variously port