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How should Big Oil spend big money?
Read moreby Ernesto Bonafé Big Oil faces an existential question: How to spend its very large and, for some, ‘windfall’ or…
Introducing From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes
by Walter Feldman Love is the Way and the Path of our Prophet. We are Love’s children, and Love is…
Margaret McGowan: A Tribute
by Richard Ralph In March this year, Dance Research lost two of its core members from its editorial team –…
Folk Songs as Communication, Resistance, Lament, and Entertainment Among Women in Northeastern Afghanistan
By Wolayat Tabasum Niroo In the northeastern provinces of Afghanistan, talented women sing folk songs to entertain each other in…
The Holocaust and Climate Change: Shakespeare’s King Lear and Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep
by Dr Richard Ashby Dr Richard Ashby analyses the 2010 Dennis Kelly play The Gods Weep, showing that playwright Dennis…
A Cannibal Poet In King James’ Court
By Brett Andrew Jones It wasn’t every day that accusations of cannibalism flew around the early Jacobean court. That’s (one…
Living with Shakespeare – A Journey in Nine Acts
by Geoffrey Marsh Given that there is little information about Shakespeare’s life, people ask what made me think there was…
Staging Banquo’s Ghost
Catherine Belsey and Alan Dessen discuss the complexities of creating Banquo's ghost for the stage in Macbeth.
Why do we call Middle Eastern dance “belly dance”?
English speakers use the term “belly dance” to describe solo, improvised dances from the Middle East and North Africa that…
100 Years Since the Russian Revolution
Looking Back at the Russian Revolution 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which occurred in March and…