International Dance Day Book Highlights
Books on Dance Studies
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5 Essential Book for Performing Arts Studies
Here are five books that delve into feminism, gay rights, pedagogy, HIV/AIDS activism, and more while breaking new ground in performing arts studies (e.g., including previously unpublished plays, contextualizing the work of an acclaimed playwright in the history of gay American theater, and comprehensively detailing how women playwrights disrupted and…
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Hou Hsiao-hsien’s THE ASSASSIN Released – Watch Trailer
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s latest film, The Assassin, was released this past weekend. It stars Shu Qi, the Taiwanese actress who is a major star across Greater China. Click here to watch a trailer from The Assassin. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s reputation as one of the most beloved auteur film directors active today is well deserved….
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#WeNeedDiverseBooks: Awkward Stages: Plays About Growing Up Gay
Awkward Stages: Plays About Growing Up Gay edited by John Clum (Duke University) and Sean Metzger includes plays by top North American contemporary playwrights: EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM by A. Rey Pamatmat SISSY by Ricardo Abreu Bracho SLIPPING by Daniel Talbott AGOKWE by Waawaate Fobister FROM WHITE PLAINS…
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#Humanities Scholarship – Important and Growing
An excellent article from Inside Higher Ed regarding scholarship in the humanities, in which William (Bro) Adams, the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), said on Thursday that he wants to push humanities scholarship to become more directly connected to helping address the nation’s contemporary problems. There…
