Dance & Other Performing Arts eTextbooks

Spoiled Rotten America

Outrages of Everyday Life

Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?

The Burlesque Handbook

Bootleg

Let Me Tell You Something

Life as a Real Housewife, Tough-Love Mother, and Street-Smart Businesswoman

I'm Awesome

One Man's Triumphant Quest to Become the Sweetest Dude Ever

Navigating a Career in Performance

Your Creative Career Guidebook

Zombies, Werewolves, Robots, and Extraterrestrials

Actor Training and the Performance of Non-Human Characters

Parenthood and Performance

Parenthood's Profound Impact on Creativity and Expression

Commedia dell'Arte

Contemporary Practitioners

Monstrous Utopias

Performance and the Radical Possibility of Hope

Performance in Bali

Then and Now

Stop Memorizing Your Lines

Be Undeniable and Ready for "Action!"

Performing Waste

To Re-member Pasts and Fabulate Futures

Performing Recovery

Addiction, Vulnerability and the Ethics of Representation

Costuming the Curve

Dressing Bodies of Size for the Stage, Screen, and Life

Reverberations of Culture

Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns

The Thriving Creative

Successful Freelancing in the Creative Economy

Alighting from the Air

Tamara Karsavina, Dancer and Writer

Quantum Screens

Nonlinear Universes in Film and Television

The Black Dance Movement in England 1940-2000

Identity, Spirituality and Continuity

Making Muslimness

Race, Religion, and Performance in Contemporary Manchester

Dance Appreciation

Art, Movement, and Disability

Transcending the Beauty Paradigm

God's Fools

Saints, Prophets, Martyrs, and the Making of Modern Comedy

Islam and the Media

Volume II

Women and Age on the UK Stage

Performing Aged Femininities

God's Fools

Saints, Prophets, Martyrs, and the Making of Modern Comedy

Making Movement Modern

Science, Politics, and the Body in Motion

No Mother, No Future

Performing Motherhood and Reproductive Loss

Music and Ideology

Resisting the Aesthetic

Robert Bresson

Cinematic Style as Philosophy

Theatre and Quality of Life

Structures, Practices, Actors

Musicking and Dancing Politics in Africa

Power, Activism, and Elections

Stanislavsky and Place

Siting Performance Internationally

Trust in the Art of Free Improvisation

The First Movie Studio in Texas

Gaston Melies's Star Film Ranch

Contemporary Choreography

A Critical Reader

Care-full Creativity in Theatre and Dance Education

Consent-Forward, Trauma-Informed, Psychologically Safe Movement Pedagogy

Creative AI for Live Interactive Performances

First International Workshop, CLIP 2026, Singapore, January 26, 2026, Proceedings

Middle Eastern Dance

Histories, Theories, Performances

Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall

33 1/3

The Director's Craft

A Handbook for the Theatre

Transmedia Marketing

From Film and TV to Games and Digital Media

Respect for Acting

Expanded Version

City of Dreams

The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures

Performing in Contemporary Musicals

Please Miss

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

Directing the Documentary

7th Edition

Precarious Secrets

A History of the Latin American Political Thriller

Documentary and Verbatim Theatre

Tracing Methodologies and Practitioners

New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siecle

Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Ecologies in Practice and Learning

Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis

Ballet Practice and History

An Introduction

Theatre of Iraq Under Occupation, 2003-2011

Lamentation, Homeland, Identity

Digital Exposes of Extreme-Right Shock Channels

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance

Oxford Handbooks

Race, Gender, and Disability in Puppetry and Material Performance

Directorless Shakespeare

Transformations through collective Embodied Literary Criticism

Stanislavsky and Screen Actor Training

Stanislavsky And...

Performing Stragismo and Counterspectacularisation

Italian Right-Wing Terrorism and Its Legacies

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance

Aerial Arts and Dance Improvisation

A Practical Guide to Creativity for Aerialists

The Reason to Sing

A Guide to Acting While Singing

Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South

Context, Theory and Method

Theatre and Revolution

Global Perspectives on Performance

Post-Mass Media

The Hyper-Crisis of Relevance

Meditative Dance Theatre in Contemporary Taiwan

U-Theatre, Legend Lin Dance Theatre, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and the Eastern Body Aesthetics

Music Worlding in Palau

Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness

Modeling Performance Measurement

Applications and Implementation Issues in DEA

Dancing for Health

Conquering and Preventing Stress

The culture of jazz

jazz as critical culture

Performing Difference

Representations of 'The Other' in Film and Theatre

Crossing Borders

International Women Students in American Higher Education

Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors

Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010

2 Volumes

Funology

From Usability to Enjoyment

Educating in the Arts

The Asian Experience: Twenty-Four Essays

Shadows of the Prophet

Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism

The Mouse that Roared

Disney and the End of Innocence

Comedy Writing Secrets

The Best-selling Book on how to Think Funny, Write Funny, Act Funny, and Get Paid for it

Characterization of Porous Solids VII

Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on the Characterization of Porous Solids (COPS-VII), Aix-en-Provence, France, 26-28 May 2005

Modern Hamlets & Soliloquies

An Expanded Edition

Othello and Interpretive Traditions

Modern Czech Theatre

Reflector and Conscience of a Nation

Reflecting the Audience

London Theatregoing, 1840-1880

The Roots of Theatre

Rethinking Ritual and Other Theories of Origin

American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War

Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947-1962

The Victorian Marionette Theatre

The Most American Thing in America

Circuit Chautauqua as Performance

Shakespeare and Chekhov in Production and Reception

Theatrical Events and Their Audiences

Fantasies of Empire

The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894

Strange Duets

Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914

Stagestruck Filmmaker

D. W. Griffith and the American Theatre

Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia

Moliere, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife

Theatre Is More Beautiful Than War

German Stage Directing in the Late Twentieth Century

Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre

August Wilson

Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle

Representing the Past

Essays in Performance Historiography