Karl Marx observed that just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves... they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service. W
This multifaceted book investigates the place of dance and performance in the development, confirmation and subversion of conceptions of Europe from the 20th ce
When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime as his sourc
Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in both th
Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages o