Dramatic and Dance Theory

How can performing be transformed into cognition? What does it mean to think through music, theatre, or dance?

This book explores how music relates to democratic participation - on- and offline, throughout cultures, in various times, social settings, and political systems.

What about the state of independent theatre? A reflection about the last 20 years – and agile insights in heterogeneous european productions.

»Performing the Digital« maps the registers of performance at work in digital cultures and seeks to place performance studies in today's media landscapes.

How do dance and choreography create their own new worlds? This trans-disciplinary volume brings together seminal concepts and current inquiries of international dance studies.

This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) in the context of postcolonial theatre. Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with performance studies and dance analysis, the study examines the interrelationship of Jamaican modern dance theatre aesthetics and the Caribbean's complex cultural genealogy since 1492. Addressing issues of postcolonial nationalism and Jamaican identity politics, the book provides the first comprehensive study of the NDTC's modern dance theatre works as it situates dance theatre choreography at the centre of postcolonial independence politics and cultural theory in the Caribbean.