The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power dynamics with important stakes, these essays focus on the politics and poetics of the moving body in performance both on and off stage.Contemporary stage performances have sparked global interest in new experiments between dance and theater, and this volume situates this interest in its historical context by extensively investigating other such moments: from pagan mimes of late antiquity to early modern archives to Bolshevik Russia to post-Sandinista Nicaragua to Chinese opera on the international stage, to contemporary flash mobs and television dance contests. Ideologically, the essays investigate critical race theory, affect theory, cognitive science, historiography, dance dramaturgy, spatiality, gender, somatics, ritual, and biopolitics among other modes of inquiry. In terms of aesthetics, they examine many genres such as musical theater, contemporary dance, improvisation, experimental theater, television, African total theater, modern dance, new Indian dance theater aesthetics, philanthroproductions, Butoh, carnival, equestrian performance, tanztheater, Korean Talchum, Nazi Movement Choirs, Lindy Hop, Bomba, Caroline Masques, political demonstrations, and Hip Hop.The volume includes innovative essays from both young and seasoned scholars and scholar/practitioners who are working at the cutting edges of their fields. The handbook brings together essays that offer new insight into well-studied areas, challenge current knowledge, attend to neglected practices or moments in time, and that identify emergent themes. The overall result is a better understanding of the roles of dance and theater in the performative production of meaning.

Introduction01. Nadine George-Graves: Magnetic Fields: Too Dance for Theater, Too Theater for DanceSection I: In Theory/In Practice02. Ann Cooper Albright, Split Intimacies: Corporeality in Contemporary Theater and Dance03. Anita Gonzalez, Negotiating Theatrics: Dialogues of the Working Man04. VK Preston, "How do I touch this text?": Or, The Interdisciplines Between: Dance and Theatre in Early Modern Archives05. Ray Miller, Dance Dramaturgy06. Vida L. Midgelow, Some Fleshy Thinking: Improvisation, experience, perceptionSection II: Genus (part 1)07. Maiya Murphy, Fleshing Out: Physical Theater, Postmodern Dance, and Som[e]agency08. Stacy Wolf and Liza Gennaro, Dance in Musical Theatre09. Colleen Dunagan, Dance and Theater: Looking at Television's Deployment of Theatricality Through Dance10. Susan Leigh Foster, Why Not 'Improv Everywhere'?Section III: Genus (part 2)11. Royd Climenhaga, A Theater of Bodily Presence: Pina Bausch and Tanztheater Wuppertal12. Praise Zenenga, The Total Theater Aesthetic Paradigm in African Theater13. Jane Baldwin, Jean Gascon's Theatricalist Approach to Moli?re and Shakespeare14. Marianne McDonald, Dancing Drama: Ancient Greek Theatre in Modern Shoes and ShowsSection IV: Historiographical Presence and Absence15. Ketu H. Katrak, The Post Natyam Collective: Innovating Indian Dance and Theatre, Abhinaya and Multimedia16. Odai Johnson, Dancing for Dionysus in the Year of Years17. Erika T. Lin, A Witch in the Morris: Hobbyhorse Tricks and Early Modern Erotic Transformations18. Esther Kim Lee, Designed Bodies: A Historiographical Study of Costume Design and Asian American Theatre19. Ann Dils, Moving American History: An Examination of Works by Ken Burns and Bill T JonesSection V: Place, Space and Landscape20. Amy Strahler Holzapfel, Landscape Between Dance and Theatre: Meredith Monk, The Wooster Group, and The TEAM21. Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle, Colonial Theatrics in Canada: Managing Blackfoot Dance During Western Expansionism22. Sally Ann Ness, A Slip on the Cables: Touristic Rituals and Landscape Performance in Yosemite National Park23. Michael Morris, Orientations as Materializations: the Love Art Laboratory's Eco-Sexual Blue Wedding to the SeaSection VI: Affect, Somatics and Cognition24. Petra Kuppers, Social Somatics and Interactive Performance: Touching Presence in Public25. Amy Cook, Bodied Forth: A Cognitive Scientific Approach to Performance Analysis26. Sondra Horton Fraleigh, Images of Love and Power: Butoh, Bausch, and Streb27. Darcey Callison, Thoughts on the Discursive Imagery of Robert Lepage's TheatreSection VII: Unruly Bodies28. Patrick Anderson, A Slender Pivot: Empathy, Public Space, and the Choreographic Imperative29. Halifu Osumare, Conjuring Magic as Survival: Hip-Hop Theater and Dance30. Thomas Postlewait, 'Court Wonder': The Performances of the 'Queen's Dwarf' in the Reign of Charles I31. Krista Miranda, 'What do Women Want, My God, What do They Want?': Mimeses, Fantasy, and Female Sexuality in Ann Liv Young's MichaelSection VIII: Biopolitics32. Daphne P. Lei, Dance Your Opera, Mime Your Words: (Mis)translate the Chinese Body on the International Stage33. E.J. Westlake, El G?eg?ence, post-Sandinista Nicaragua, and the Resistant Politics of Dancing34. Jade Power Sotomayor, From Soberao to Stage: Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba and the Speaking Body35. William Givens. Lindy Hop, Community, and the Isolation of AppropriationSection IX: National Scales and Mass Movements36. Sandy Peterson, Russian Mass Spectacle and the Bolshevik Regime37. Marie Percy, Movement Choirs and the Nazi Olympics38. J.L. Murdoch, Talchum: Korea's masked folk dance-drama39. Kim Marra, Circus Echoes: Dancing the Human-Equine Relationship Under the Millennial Big Top40. Neal Hebert, Capitol City Camp: Gay Carnival and Capitalist DisplaySection X: Infection41. Miriam Felton-Dansky, Borrowed Crowds: The Living Theatre's Contagious Revolution42. Marlis Schweitzer, The Salome Epidemic: Degeneracy, Disease, and Race Suicide43. Virginia Anderson, Choreographing a Cause: Broadway Bares as Philathroproduction and Embodied Index to Changing Attitudes Toward HIV/AIDS44. Michael Lueger, Dance and the Plague: Epidemic Choreomania and Artaud