Transmissions in Dance Contemporary Staging Practices

“This edited collection will resonate with both practitioners and academics. The examples it gathers together uncover the difficulties, joys, and complexities of communicating earlier dances to current performers and audiences—raising issues, triggering debate, and providing marvelous resources for further study. It is an innovative and useful collection.” (Geraldine Morris, Dance Research Journal, Vol. 52 (1), April, 2020)

“Transmissions is, therefore, recommended reading for all with a stake in our moving past, including dance practitioners, historians, critics, and philosophers of art.” (Renee M. Conroy, Dance Research, Vol. 37 (2), November, 2019)

Lesley Main is Head of the Department of Performing Arts at Middlesex University, UK, and Director of the Doris Humphrey Foundation UK. She stages Humphrey’s dances for companies in Europe and the USA, and is the author of Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey: the Creative Impulse of Reconstruction (2012).