Originally published in 1930, The Wheel of Fire is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar G. Wilson Knight, in which he founded a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism.

Classical ballet is no longer the sole stimulus for today's audiences, as a fluid fusion of everything from ballet to Bollywood and from breakdancing to Latin represents how dance is consumed today. With the emergence of modern choreographers and new teaching styles, debate on the benefits of classical ballet training for non-classical dancers continues, even raising questions as to its relevance. The increasing academic interest in examining ballet's role is the focus of this book, published...

ME is a capital, a produced identity, a competitive subjectivity.

If I practice de-forming the product of ME, do I annihilate ME, aside from the matter-of-factness by which I still exist in flesh and bone?

By the urgency of not belonging

Not owing

Not being owned

Running from a contract I considered a given

I talked to that breath

It gave me a shiver in response.

This volume comprises the textual and visual translation of a two-year research trip undertaken by the ArtEZ Dance Academy and its Theory in the Arts research department. The project tackles the praxis and practice of urban dance, its manifestation in public space, making modern dance more accessible to a wider audience, how urban dance is learned and how this can affect ideas and movements, and more. The questions it raised have led to exploring the urban circle form that has emerged ass the...

Imaginative Bodies contains a series of in-depth conversations with dancers and choreographers, composers, visual artists, Hip Hop artists, dramaturgs, a lighting designer and a puppeteer. The overall theme is defined by the body, both in relation to the place it takes in the artist's work, and in relation to wider debates on the body in philosophy, science, medicine, anthropology, and the arts. Depending on the affinities of the artist, a more specific theme has been defined for each dialogu...

This book is situated in the breach opened up by recent debates on inherited notions of text, language, and translation that followed the emergence of new technologies. It examines two works of contemporary dance, Marie Chouinard’s Jérôme Bosch: Le Jardin des Délices (2016) and Mathieu Geffré’s Froth on the Daydream (2018), as examples of intermedial translation. Conceptualising translation through the lens of theatrical dance allows us to see the translation process as a creative, co...

The Abramovic Method will surmount any creative barrier and refocus your life.

In Moving Together onderzoekt Rudi Laermans hedendaagse dans vanuit zowel een praktijk- als een theoretisch perspectief, met verbindingen over en weer. Laermans analyseert de drie belangrijkste stromingen: 'pure dans', danstheater en (zelf)reflexieve dans en stelt een (theoretisch) begrippenkader voor. Hij onderzoekt tevens op basis van gesprekken met dansers en choreografen hoe dans in artistieke samenwerking tot stand komt.

Rudi Laermans is hoogleraar Sociologische Theorie aan de KULeuven. ...

LOW CONTENT deals with aspects of Change. It started as a collection of reflections in relation to movement practice and bodily expressivity through personal understanding , and evolved together with a number of artists who contributed to the book directly or indirectly. The concept of Change is addressed in various ways through its relationship to freedom, society and stability, identity and consciousness.

This publication celebrates the 10 th anniversary of the Master of Choreography programme of the ArtEZ School of Dance. It marks this particular moment in time by creating a discursive and dynamic object in which memories of the past and visions of the future converge. 'Inventing Futures' is a mixture, a hybrid of an art book, a selection of essays, a score or a choreography itself, which comes to life in its encounter with the reader. The book consists of five clusters reflecting upon a cent...