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Dance in Dialogue critically examines the relationship between performance, dance, and other disciplines.
Fostering interdisciplinary approaches and cross-disciplinary exchanges, the series offers new ways of interrogating the relationship of performance and dance to other disciplines, as well as the political, cultural, social, and economic issues and contexts in which they are created and presented.
Dance in Dialogue challenges the ways in which dance scholarship has been traditionally represented and disseminated: through critically exploring the dialogical relationship between theory and practice, the series fosters the ethos of collaboration, dialogue, and political engagement that is needed for vibrant knowledge production within and outside of academia.
To realise this vision, the series offers two distinct publication formats via two strands:
In Conversation
A collection of short books that present new thinking emerging from curated conversations between dance and another discipline or topical artistic, cultural, and political issue. These approximately 40,000-word books typically develop out of international conversation events and are published within approximately a year after them.
Moving forward
A collection of cutting-edge and forward-thinking, full-length monographs and edited collections that challenge understandings of the juncture between dance research and another discipline or topical artistic, cultural, and political issue. These are often linked or develop out of In Conversation projects.
The Series acknowledges the grateful support of the Society for Dance Research.
Titles in the Series
In Conversation titles:
Performance, Dance and Political Economy: Bodies at the End of the World By Katerina Paramana and Anita Gonzalez (Eds.)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/performance-dance-and-political-economy-9781350188754/
Dance, Architecture and Engineering By Adesola Akinleye
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dance-architecture-and-engineering-9781350185234/
Dance and Silence by Vipavinee Artpradid and Petra Johnson (Eds.)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dance-and-silence-9781350472082/
Moving Forward titles:
The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel’s Les Ballets C de la B: Emotions, Gestures, Politics By Christel Stalpaert, Guy Cools and Hildegard De Vuyst (Eds.)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/choreopolitics-of-alain-platels-les-ballets-c-de-la-b-9781350233577/
FALLING through dance and life By Emilyn Claid
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/falling-through-dance-and-life-9781350202641/
Series Editors
1. Dr. Marie-Louise Crawley is a choreographer, artist researcher and Assistant Professor in Dance and Cultural Engagement at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University (UK). Her research interests include dance and museums, and areas of intersection between Classics and Dance Studies. Marie-Louise has worked on several large-scale European-funded research projects investigating dance and the heritage sector, and has published widely in Dance Research Journal, Performance Research Journal, and International Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media among others. She co-edited Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body Space Object (Palgrave, 2020). She is a co-editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices and a Research Associate of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.
2. Dr. Fangfei Miao, an international dance theorist, choreographer, and dancer, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Michigan, where she teaches both seminar and physical practice courses. Dr. Miao’s scholarly research weaves dance and performance studies, Chinese and East Asian studies, and critical inquiries into globalization. Her in-progress monograph examines the productive historical “mis-steps” engendered by Sino-US cross-cultural dance transmissions in Reform-Era China (1978-the present). Dr. Miao currently serves on the Board of Directors at the Dance Studies Association and on the editorial and advisory committees of leading dance research journals in both Anglophone and Chinese-language academia. With extensive professional training in modern dance, Chinese classical and folk dance, Tai Chi Quan, and ballet, Dr. Miao has toured her evening-length concerts internationally in Lyon, Shanghai, Harbin, and New York, among other locations.
3. Dr. Urmimala Sarkar, retired Professor of Dance Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Prime Minister's Museum and Library, Delhi. She is a social anthropologist/ choreographer with research and practice experience in multiple dance forms in India. Her research is interdisciplinary, focusing on gender and dance; contemporary choreography; documenting performance; politics of identity and regional performances; and, performance as/led Research. Urmimala is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of South Asian Dance Intersections (SADI). Her recent publications include - Alice Boner Across Geographies and Arts (2021), Uday Shankar and his Transcultural Experimentations: Dancing Modernity (2022), and Mapping Critical Dance Studies in India (2024), and a co-edited book with A. Chakraborty, The Dancing Body: Labour, Livelihood and Leisure (2025).
4. Dr Victoria Thoms is Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University (UK). Victoria is interested in research that considers theatre dance as a political, social, and embodied force. Thoms is presently looking at British cultural history of the first half of the 20th c. through the lens of its theatre dance and has published findings in blogs with the Parliamentary Archives, the Churchill Archives Centre, and the Harry Ransom Center (Texas, USA). She is author of Martha Graham: Gender and the haunting of a dance pioneer (2013) and has published in Dance Research Journal, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Research in Dance Education, Women: a Cultural Review, Modernism/Modernity Print+, and Dance Chronicle. Victoria is one of the founding members of the interdisciplinary book series Dance in Dialogue published with Bloomsbury. She is Coventry University Site Director for the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Programme.
5. Lily Hayward-Smith is a research assistant at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University and a dance artist and researcher specializing in improvisation, interdisciplinary collaboration, somatic practices and curation. She is currently a research assistant for the Moving Online: Ontology and Ownership of Internet Dance funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, DanceMap funded by Horizon Europe and for BRAID: Responsible use of AI in the creation, archiving, reactivation and conservation of artworks and their archives funded UKRI. She is curator of a number of events at C-DaRE including the ongoing C-DaRE Invites... series and the International Dance and Somatic Practices Conference at Coventry University. Lily is also co-editor for the Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices. Lily completed a master’s in dance making and performance in 2009 at Coventry University. Other dance and research interests include, creative writing, practice research, philosophy and embodied modes of being.
Have a proposal you think would be a great fit for the series?
Reach out to Publisher Anna Brewer at: anna.brewer@bloomsbury.com
Or to the Series Editors at: danceindialoguebookseries@gmail.com
You may find a proposal form here.
