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Category: Theatre and Dance

Cultural Studies

Staging Banquo’s Ghost

posted by Carla Hepburn June 8, 20205 min read472 Views

Catherine Belsey and Alan Dessen discuss the complexities of creating Banquo’s ghost for the stage in Macbeth.

Cultural Studies

Why do we call Middle Eastern dance “belly dance”?

posted by Teri Williams May 23, 20196 min read3691 Views

English speakers use the term “belly dance” to describe solo, improvised dances from the Middle East and North Africa that…

Cultural Studies

100 Years Since the Russian Revolution

posted by Rebecca Wojturska October 6, 20174 min read2144 Views

Looking Back at the Russian Revolution 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which occurred in March and…

The Edinburgh Festivals
Cultural Studies

Celebrating 70 Years of the Edinburgh International Festival

posted by Emma at EUP August 11, 201713 min read1619 Views

An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…

alice miller cotter photograph
Cultural Studies

Guest Blog Post – Socrates: Mark Morris on Death and Dying

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals April 28, 20152 min read2092 Views

In 1917, Erik Satie faced a spiritual dilemma—the challenge of giving voice to death, to nothingness. The composer had begun…

‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer’, Anthony L’Abbe, A New Collection of Dances [London, c.1725], plate 74, appearing in MONSIEUR DESNOYER, PART 1: 1721–1733, DOI: drs.2013.005969
Cultural History

Monsieur Desnoyer – Mapping Choreography. 18C Dance Design

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals February 26, 201529 sec read3813 Views

Below is a beautiful illustration of ‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer and choreographed by Anthony L’Abbe’. Full of jumps,…

Cultural Studies

What does neuroscience offer to dance? What does dance offer to neuroscience?

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals April 29, 20141 min read2031 Views

“Dancers are experts in mental processes such as memory, timing and motor cognition, and the study of dance can provide…

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