In the last few years, concerns about dancers' health and the consequences of physical training have increased considerably. The physical requirements and type of training dancers need to achieve to reach their highest level of performance while decreasing the rate of severe injuries has awakened the necessity of more scientific knowledge concerning the area of dance, in part considering its several particularities. Scientific Perspectives and Emerging Developments in Dance and the Performing Arts is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research designed to reduce the gap between the scientific theory and the practice of dance. While highlighting topics such as burnout, mental health, and sport psychology, this publication explores areas such as nutrition, psychology, and education, as well as methods of maintaining the general wellbeing and quality of the health, training, and performance of dancers. This book is ideally designed for dance experts, instructors, sports psychologists, researchers, academicians, and students.

In Acts of Resistance in Late-Modernist Theatre, Richard Murphet presents a close analysis of the theatre practice of two ground-breaking artists - Richard Foreman and Jenny Kemp - active over the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century. In addition, he tracks the development of a form of 'epileptic' writing over the course of his own career as writer/director. Murphet argues that these three auteurs have developed subversive alternatives to the previously dominant forms of dramatic realism in order to re-think the relationship between theatre and reality. They write and direct their own work, and their artistic experimentation is manifest in the tension created between their content and their form. Murphet investigates how the works are made, rather than focusing upon an interpretation of their meaning. Through an examination of these artists, we gain a deeper understanding of a late modernist paradigm shift in theatre practice.

Each story in this collection begins with an undesirable or out-of-balance situation and, through the use of metaphor and an imaginative story journey, leads to a more desirable resolution. In this way, the stories also have the potential for nurturing positive values. The stories cover many kinds of universal behaviour. Following the alphabet from A to Z, the behaviour is identified in the story title e.g. anxious, bossy, cranky ... greedy ... jealous ... lazy ... swearing ... uncooperative ... and more. The stories can be told directly, or adapted. They can be turned into home-made picture books and puppet shows, or used as springboards for the creation of new tales for particular behaviour challenges and situations.

Key Mysteries is a unique study into Keys in magick and mystery entertainment. Hardbound with 286 pages it features essays on the historical and symbolic concepts of keys in magic, plus feature contributions by over 30 highly respected performers on presentation approaches and many routines - both seminal and new. Contributors include David Berglas, Eugene Burger, Bruce Bernstein, Kenton Knepper, Docc Hilford, Marc Salem, Jeff McBride, Roni Shachnaey, Christian Chelman, E.Raymond Carlyle, Professor BC, Robert E. Neale, Bob Fitch, Ed Solomon, Luca Volpe, Dale Hildebrandt, Lary Kuehn, Barrie Richardson, Paul Prater, Simon Drake, Daniele Nigris, Leslie Melville, Paul Voodini, Alan Jones, Jim Magus, Barry Cooper, Ariel Frailich, Master Payne and Mark Fishman Foreword is by Ed Solomon. Author / Editor Steve Drury