Reprint. Originally published in 2015.

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2017"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Magnetic fields : too dance for theater, too theater for dance / Nadine George-Graves -- Split intimacies : corporeality in contemporary theater and dance / Ann Cooper Albright ; Negotiating theatrics : dialogues of the working man / Anita Gonzalez -- How do I touch this text? : or, the interdisciplines between dance and theater in early modern archives / VK Preston -- Dance dramaturgy : definitions, perspectives, projections / Ray Miller -- Some fleshy thinking : improvisation, experience, perception / Vida L. Midgelow -- Fleshing out : physical theater, postmodern dance, and som[e]agency / Maiya Murphy -- Dance in musical theater / Liza Gennaro and Stacy Wolf -- Dance and theater : looking at television's deployment of theatricality through dance / Colleen Dunagan -- Why not 'improv everywhere'? / Susan Leigh Foster -- A theater of bodily presence : Pina Bausch and Tanztheater Wuppertal / Royd Climenhaga -- The total theater aesthetic paradigm in African theater / Praise Zenenga -- Jean Gascon's theatricalist approach to Molière and Shakespeare / Jane Baldwin -- Dancing drama : ancient Greek theater in modern shoes and shows / Marianne McDonald.

The Post Natyam Collective : innovating Indian dance and theater via Abhinaya and multimedia / Ketu H. Katrak -- Persistent pagans : dancing for Dionysos in the year of years / Odai Johnson -- A witch in the Morris : hobbyhorse tricks and early modern erotic transformations / Erika T. Lin -- Designed bodies : a historiographical study of costume design and Asian American theater / Esther Kim Lee -- Moving American history : an examination of works by Ken Burns and Bill T. Jones / Ann Dils -- From landscape to climatescape in contemporary dance-theater : Meredith Monk, The Wooster Group, and The TEAM / Amy Strahler Holzapfel -- Colonial theatrics in Canada : managing Blackfoot dance during Western expansionism / Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn -- A slip on the cables : touristic rituals and landscape performance in Yosemite National Park / Sally Ann Ness -- Orientations as materializations : the Love Art Laboratory's Eco-sexual blue wedding to the sea / Michael J. Morris.

Social somatics and community performance : touching presence in public / Petra Kuppers -- Bodied forth : a cognitive scientific approach to performance analysis / Amy Cook -- Images of love and power : Butoh, Bausch, and Streb / Sondra Horton Fraleigh -- Thoughts on the discursive imagery of Robert Lepage's theater / Darcey Callison -- A slender pivot : empathy, public space, and the choreographic imperative / Patrick Anderson -- Conjuring magic as survival : hip-hop theater and dance / Halifu Osumare -- Notorious Jeffrey Hudson : the 'court wonder' of the Caroline masques (1626-1640) / Thomas Postlewait -- What do women want, my God, what do they want? : mimesis, fantasy and female sexuality in Ann Liv Young's Michael / Krista K. Miranda.

Dance your opera, mime your words ; (mis)translate the Chinese body on the international stage / Daphne P. Lei -- El Güegüence, post-Sandinista Nicaragua, and the resistant politics of dancing / E.J. Westlake -- From Soberao to stage : Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba and the speaking body / Jade Y. Power Sotomayor -- Lindy hop, community, and the isolation of appropriation / William Given -- Russian mass spectacle and the Bolshevik regime / Sandy Peterson -- Movement choirs and the Nazi Olympics / Marie C. Percy -- Talchum : an embodied inquiry / J.L. Murdoch -- Circus echoes : dancing the human-equine relationship under the millennial big top / Kim Marra -- Capital city camp : gay Carnival and capitalist display / Neal Hebert -- Borrowed crowds : the Living Theatre's contagious revolution / Miriam Felton-Dansky -- The Salome epidemic : degeneracy, disease, and race suicide / Marlis Schweitzer -- Choreographing a cause : Broadway bares as philanthroproduction and embodied index to changing attitudes toward HIV/AIDS / Virginia Anderson -- Dance and the plague : epidemic choreomania and Artaud / Michael Lueger.