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In Conversation: Robert Pranzatelli and Pilobolus Artistic Directors Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent

In Pilobolus: A Story of Dance and Life, author Robert Pranzatelli shares previously untold details about the dance theatre company's history and the creation of its most significant works. Below is an interview Robert Pranzatelli conducted with Renée Jaworski, Pilobolus's executive/co-artistic director, and Matt Kent, the company's artistic director. Jaworski and Kent are not only … Continue reading In Conversation: Robert Pranzatelli and Pilobolus Artistic Directors Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent

University Press of Florida Dance, Publication Announcement

Pilobolus

“An important contribution to modern American dance history that will resonate with Pilobolus’ many fans and engender new ones.”—Booklist “Pranzatelli gives behind-the-scenes insight into both the art-making process and the often-grueling business of running a dance company. The book includes photographs, some never before published, that give readers a taste of Pilobolus’s hallmark bodily wizardry. … Continue reading Pilobolus

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Dancing the Afrofuture

“Osumare gives readers a deeply personal look into her world as a dancer, choreographer, scholar, professor, activist, and all-around powerhouse. . . . Part self-reflection and part love song to Dunham, this book is a triumphant look at a dancer’s second act as a scholar.”—Library Journal “Osumare returns with yet another striking memoir, expanding our understanding … Continue reading Dancing the Afrofuture

University Press of Florida Author Post, Dance

Shaping Dance Canons Reveals the Power of Newspaper Critics Who Write about the Arts

By Kate Mattingly, author of Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity This book is available at a discount price through June 30, 2023. Order here and use code DSA23 at checkout. Have you ever wondered who decides which artists go into our history courses and textbooks? And what criteria are used to establish greatness or canonicity? These questions hit … Continue reading Shaping Dance Canons Reveals the Power of Newspaper Critics Who Write about the Arts

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Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity

“Assembled with urgent clarity and razor-sharp analytical force, this thoughtful book provokes a consideration of how it is that some writers make sense, or non-sense, of the worlds of dance we share. Mattingly helps the reader understand that dance criticism is bound up in systems of exclusion and disavowal that must be acknowledged. An offering … Continue reading Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity

University Press of Florida Author Post, Dance

Q&A with Katya Wesolowski, author of Capoeira Connections

In Capoeira Connections: A Memoir in Motion, Katya Wesolowski—a capoeirista and Duke University lecturing fellow of cultural anthropology and dance—explores her personal journey from novice to instructor as well as her decades of research as an anthropologist in Brazil, Angola, Europe, and the United States. We asked Katya Wesolowski some questions about her new book, which we're … Continue reading Q&A with Katya Wesolowski, author of Capoeira Connections

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Research Methods in the Dance Sciences

“An invaluable book for anyone engaged in dance science research at any level. Bringing together leading voices in dance medicine and science, it is a must-have for the dance research community. Accessible, practical, and complete, it is the book dance science research has been waiting for.”—Róisín Cahalan, editor of Complete Irish Dancer: Optimization of Health and … Continue reading Research Methods in the Dance Sciences

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Capoeira Connections

“Wesolowski mobilizes decades of movement experience—through diverse styles of physical training as well as through diverse cultural contexts—to explore the convivência of capoeira: the ways in which it choreographs relationships across difference (of race, class, gender, nation, and more). Through her always engaging and often moving personal narrative, one slowly forms an understanding of the … Continue reading Capoeira Connections