Dance Publications
Anderson, Margo. 2020. Dance Overview of the Australian Performing Arts Collection, Dance Research, Vol. 38, Issue 2.
Baylis, John, 2019. Branch Nebula: Seeking flow, In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, Erin Branningan (ed). UNSW
Brannigan, Erin, with Pip Wallis, Hannah Mathews, Louise Lawson and Amita Kirpalani. 2024. Precarious Movements: Dance and the Museum, National Gallery of Victoria
Brannigan, Erin, Siobhan Murphy & Tia Reihana-Morunga (ed.) 2024, Moving South: The Reconceptialisation of dance research in the 2020s, Performance Paradigm, No. 19, 1-8
Brannigan, Erin. 2023. The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art, University of Michigan Press
Brannigan, Erin. 2023. Shelley Lasica—Context and Process, The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art, University of Michigan Press, 168-175
Brannigan, Erin. 2023. Dancing into the Museum, Art Guide
Brannigan, Erin & Louise Lawson, 2023. Precarious Movements: Contemporary Dance as Contemporary Art, Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care, Routledge, 278-292.
Brannigan, Erin. 2019. Talking Back: What Dance might make of Badiou’s philosophical project, Performance Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 2, 354-373
Brannigan, Erin. 2019. What ever happened to Dance Criticism? In Thomas, H., & Prickett, S. (Eds.). (2019). The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies (1st ed.). Routledge
Brannigan, Erin. 2019. Curatorial Introduction, In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, Erin Branningan (ed). UNSW
Brannigan, Erin, 2018. Dance in the Gallery: Process and Memory, Invisible Histories, 8-17
Brannigan, Erin. 2017. Context, Discipline, and Understanding: The Poetics of Shelley Lasica’s Gallery-Based Work, Performance Paradigm, Vol. 13, 97 - 117
Brannigan, Erin & Hannah Mathews. 2017. Performance, Choreography, and the Gallery: Materiality, Attention, Agency, Sensation, and Instability, Performance Paradigm, Vol. 13. 1-6
Brannigan, Erin. 2015. Dance and the Gallery: Curation as Revision, Dance Research Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1, 5-25
Brannigan, Erin. 2014. Multiple introductory texts. Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, Erin Brannigan and Virginia Baxter (eds), Wakefield Press, 1-3, 4-5, 46-47, 92-93, 132-133.
Brannigan, Erin. 2014. Helen Herbertson: Morphia Series Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers. Erin Brannigan and Virginia Baxter (eds), Wakefield Press, 138-142.
Brannigan, Erin. 2010. Moving Across Disciplines: Dance in the 21st Century, Platform Paper, No. 25, Currency House.
Brown, Carol. 2025. Braiding, A Fluid Dramaturgy, The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance.
Brown, Carol. 2017. Entangled histories, Part 1: Releasing the Archive. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Vol. 9, No.1, 57-74.
Brown, Carol. 2010. Migration and Memory: The Dances of Gertrud Bodenwieser. Dance Advance at Pew Centre for Arts and Heritage.
Brissenden, Alan and Keith Glennon. 2010. Australia Dances: Creating Australian Dance 1945-1965, Wakefield Press.
Burridge, Stephanie. 2012. Connecting Through Dance and Story, Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Australian Dance, edited byStephanie Burridge and Julie Dyson. Routledge.
Card, Amanda, 2019. Body and Embodiment, Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies: Key Terms in the Field, Vanessa Agnew et al (ed.) Routledge.
Card, Amanda. 2019. Martin del Amo on the Pages of RealTime, In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, Erin Brannigan (ed.), UNSW
Card, Amanda. 2016 Gertrud Bodenwieser (1890-1959), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Taylor & Francis.
Card, Amanda. 2015 Dancing Modernists in Oceania, The Modernist World, Stephen Ross & Allana Lindgren (eds.) , Routledge, 225-264
Card, Amanda. 2014. Tess Dequincy: Nerve 9, Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 150-159.
Card, Amanda. 2012. Do Try This At Home: Dance Manuals, Myopia and Misrecognition, A World of Popular Entertainments: An Edited Volume of Critical Essays, Gillian Arrighi and Victor Emeljanow (eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing,118-133
Card, Amanda. 2012. Together in Isolation: New Moves across Time and Place, Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Australian Dance, edited byStephanie Burridge and Julie Dyson. Routledge, 155-173
Card, Amanda. 2011. Feeling for Dancing in the archives of the dead, Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: hidden archives in performance, Glen McGillivray (ed.), Peter Lang
Card, Amanda. 2011. Tethering the Flow: Dialogues between Dance, Physical Culture and Antiquity in Interwar Australia, Dancing Naturally, Alexandra Carter & A., Rachel Fensham (eds), Palgrave Macmillan.
Card, Amanda. 2010. Homage and critique in contemporary dance: or a reverie on the lasting legacy of Yvonne Rainer's NO manifesto. Brolga, Vol 32, No. 1, 15-21
Card, Amanda. 2009. Temporal Surrender, What Do I think About When I Think About Dancing, Lisa Havilah, Emma Saunders, Susan Gibb (editors), Campbelltown Arts Centre, pp. 29-35
Card, Amanda. 2008. Art dance, burlesque and body culture: negotiating interwar modernities, Impact of the modern: vernacular modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s, Robert Dixon and Veronica Kelly (eds), University of Sydney Press.
Card, Amanda, 2008. Body for Hire: the State of Dance in Australia, Platform Paper, No. 8. Currency House
Card, Amanda, 2002. Choreographing a Continent: modern dance and constructions of national identity in Australia, Choreography and Dance, Vol. 4, Part 2/3.
Card, Amanda. 1999. Prominence in Obscurity: Sonia Revid in Melbourne 1932-1945, Brolga, 10, June, 7-19
Coleman, Luncinda. 2014. Conversations on the frontlines of the body, Ausdance
De Quiney, Tess. 2021. Body Weather Bodies in the Outback—Lake Mungo. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Vol. 12 No. 3, 317-333
De Quincey, Tess. 2019. A Future Body, In The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader, edited by Teresa Brayshaw, Anna Fenemore and Noel Witts. Routledge.
De Quincey, Tess. 2018. Space, Place and In between. What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives, edited by Adam Geczy and Mimi Kelly. Sydney.
De Quincey, Tess. 2003. Burning Point. About Performance 5: 21–24.
De Quincey, Tess. 2003. Overview Description of Triple Alice. About Performance 5: 25-27.
Dempster, Elizabeth & Erin Brannigan. 2014. Ros Warby: Swift, Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 32-43
Dunlop McTavish, Shona, 1987. An Ecstasy of Purpose: the life and art of Gertrud Bodenwieser, Les Humphrey and Associates
Fensham, Rachel. 2023. An Artist Speaks “the Intellect Travels in Many Different Directions: Talkin’ with Eleo Pomare (1937-2008), Dance Research Journal, Vol 55, Issue 1
Fensham, Rachel. 2014. Stephen Page: Skin. Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 120-131
Fensham, Rachel. 2013. ‘Breakin’ the Rules’: Eleo Pomare and the Transcultural Choreographies of Black Modernity. Dance Research Journal 45 (1): 40-63.
Fensham, Rachel. 2004. Australian University Theses on Dance 1990-2005, Ausdance
Fraser, Peter. 2016. Gaps in the body: attention and improvisation, Brolga, No. 40. March
Gallasch, Keith & Virginia Baxter, Art & review: an enduring loop, In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, Erin Branningan (ed). UNSW
Gardiner, Sally. 2014. Russell Dumas: dance for the time being. Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 8-17
Gilbert, Helen, Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain (eds.). 2021. Marrageku: Telling that Story. Performance Research Books
Ginot, Isabelle & Edwidge Phitoussi. 2014. Rosalind Crisp: d a n s e, Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 20-29
Gissell, Tammi. 2024. Response and Responsibility: First Nations Performance and Public Collections, in conversation with Juanita Kelly-Mundie, Performance Paradigm, No. 19, 9-27
Harris, Amanda. 2017. Pan-Indigenous Encounter in the 1950s: ‘Ethnic Dancer’ Beth Dean, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3, 328-345
Healey, Sue. 2019, Capturing the Vanishing: A choreographer and film, Platform Paper, No. 60, Currency House
Keebler, Susannah, 2024. Embedded Dancer: A Model for Regional Dance Practice Survival in the Context of Crisis, Performance Paradigm, No. 19, 68-87
Kenny, Kath. 2025. The Drama of Dance, The Dance of Drama. Article on the choreographer/teacher Margaret Barr (1904 – 1991), Open Book, Spring, State Library of NSW.
Klich, Rosemary & Keith Gallasch, 20§4. Kate Champion: Already Elsewhere, Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 108-117
Leach, Paea 2024.a K Ō R E R O & a H U I : a conversation and a meeting in three parts, Performance Paradigm, No. 19, 109-124
Lester, Garry. 2012. Contemporary Indigenous Dance: The Importance of NAISDA. Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Australian Dance, edited byStephanie Burridge and Julie Dyson. Routledge.
Lester, Garry, 2007. Galvanising community: Margaret Barr at Dartington Hall 1930–1934 (pt, 2), Brolga, No. 26, June
Lester, Garry. 2006. Galvanising community: Margaret Barr at Dartington Hall 1930– 934 (pt 1), Brolga, No. December
Lester, Garry. 1999. Kai Tai Chan (pt 2): the London years, Brolga, No. 29, June
Lester, Garry. 1998. Kai Tai Chan: part one, fingers dancing in the dark, Brolga, No. 28, June
Long, Julie-Anne. 2018. People Like Us: Revolutions in Australian Theatre,Narrative in performance, editors B. Sellers-Young & J. R. McCutcheon, Red Globe Press.
Long, Julie-Anne. 2018. More Bums on Seat : Branch Nebula : Choreographing the Audience, Runway: Australian Experimental Art, No. 36
Long, Julie-Anne. 2017. Tactical moves in strategic places: performing Val, The Invisible in the MCA, Australia, Performance Paradigm, 13, 80-96
Long, Julie-Anne. 2014. Sue Healey: Fine Line Terrain, Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press.
Marchant, Jason. 2016. Dance improvisation: why warm up at all?, Brolga, No. 40, March
Marshall, Jonathan W. 2012. Ausdruckstanz, faith and the anthropological impulsea critical analysis of the career of Shona Dunlop MacTavish, Brolga, No. 37
McKechnie, Shirley, Jordan Beth Vincent & Erin Brannigan. 2014. Meryl Tankard: Furioso, Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 94-105
McKenzie, Vahri. 2017. Placing knowledge in the body: Western Australian choreographers dancing ‘With a Bullet’, Brolga , 41, December
McLeod, Shaun. 2017. Overexposed, yet rarely seen. Dance improvisation as performance in the Australian context, Brolga, No. 41, December
McLeod, Shaun. 2016. The ethos of the mover/witness dyad:an experimental frame for participatory performance, Brolga, No. 40, March
McNeilly, Jodie, 2024. Choreocraftivism: small gestures, gentle action and caring for things, Performance Paradigm, No. 19, 28-49
Mehta, Alesha. 2024. Ritualistic Explorations towards Kama in Autoethnographic Creative Practice, Performance Paradigm, No. 19,125-133
Millard, Olivia & Kate Hunter. 2024. The imperative of the present: Improvisation and the ageing body, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Vol. 16, No 1&2, December
Millard Olivia, 2023, Practising sameness: Inside a long-term dance improvisation practice, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Vol. 15, June
Millard, Olivia. 2017. Dancing participation: Observations of a long-term group dance improvisation practice, Brolga, No. 41
Millard, Olivia. 2016. What’s the score? Using scores in dance improvisation, Brolga, No. 40, March
Millard, Olivia. 2015. Moving Towards a Group Dance, The International Journal of arts Theory and History, Vol. 10 No. 3, March
Millard, Olivia. 2013. Dancing habitus: the formation of a group (dance), Brolga, 38, September
Miller, Marilyn. 2012. Treading the Pathways: Independent Indigenous Dance. Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Australian Dance, edited byStephanie Burridge and Julie Dyson. Routledge
Myers, Jeff. 2012. Generations Dancing. Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Australian Dance, edited byStephanie Burridge and Julie Dyson. Routledge
Newton, Rhiannon, 2024. Embodying an Ecological Condition: A Dance Practice Approach to Sensing Multiplicity, Performance Paradigm, No. 19, 50-67
Page, Stephen and Cheryl Stock. 2012. Awakening the Spirit: Telling the Stories. Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Australian Dance, edited byStephanie Burridge and Julie Dyson. Routledge.
Perry, Indigo. 2017. Dance of the writer: a poetics, Brolga, No. 41, December
Pigram, Dalisa and Rachael. 2015. Cut the Sky: Traces of Experimentation in Dance and Dramaturgy in the Age of the Anthropocene. Global Performance Studies Vol. 1, No. 2.
Phillips, Maggie. 2014. Knowledge, Experience and a Dash of Rebellion: Dance Training in Australia, Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Australian Dance, edited byStephanie Burridge and Julie Dyson. Routledge
Potter, Michelle. 2012. Meryl Tankard: An Original Voice. Dance Writing and Research
Rothfield, Philipa. 2020. Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny, Routledge
Rothfield, Philipa & Erin Brannigan, 2014. Lucy Guerin: Human Interest Story, Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 48-61
Sarwal, Amit . 2022. The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage, Routledge
Shaddick, Lillian. 2018. Dancing Like a Brazilian: Negotiating Authenticity in Australian Samba Performance, Popular Entertainment Studies. Vol. 9, Issue 1&2, 64-78
Smith, Melinda & Dianne Ried. 2017. The negotiations of relationship—a conversation about dance improvisation, Brolga, No. 41, December
Southcott, Jane, & Dawn Joseph. 2020. “If you can breathe, you can dance”: Fine lines contemporary dance for mature bodies in Melbourne, Australia.Journal of Women & Aging, Vol. 32, No. 6, 591–610.
Stock, Cheryl. 2015. From Urban Cities and the Tropics to Site-dance in the World Heritage Setting of Melaka: An Australian Practitioner’s Journey. In Moving sites: Investigating Site-specific Dance Performance, edited by Victoria Hunter. Routledge.
Stock, Cheryl. 2012. Different Inflections.Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Australian Dance, edited byStephanie Burridge and Julie Dyson. Routledge
Swain, Rachael. 2020. Dance in Contested Land: New Intercultural Dramaturgies. Palgrave Macmillan.
Swain, Rachael. 2015. A Meeting of Nations: Trans-Indigenous and Intercultural Interventions in Contemporary Indigenous Dance. Theatre Journal 67 (3): 503-521.
Swain, Rachael. 2014. Burning Daylight: Contemporary Indigenous Dance, Loss and Cultural Intuition. In Ethics and the Arts, edited by Paul Macneill. Springer.
Swain, Rachael. 2014. Time and a Mirror: Towards a hybrid dramaturgy for intercultural-indigenous performance. In New dramaturgy: International perspectives on theory, edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane. Bloomsbury.
Sykes, Jill. 2012. Shaping the Landscape, Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Australian Dance, edited byStephanie Burridge and Julie Dyson. Routledge
Sykes, Jill. 2007. Graeme Murphy and the SDC, Brolga, No. 26, June
Taylor, Gretel. 2017. Dancing into belonging: towards co-presence in place, Brolga, No. 41, December
Thomson, Lizzie, Fierce and Fragile: Vicki Van Hout’s provocative body of work, In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, Erin Branningan (ed). UNSW
Thompson, Anne & Erin Brannigan. 2014 Garry Stewart: Devotion, Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 76-89
Tonkin, Maggie, 2024. Choreographies of Collapse: Located and Unlocated Catastrophe in Works by Lucy Guerin, Garry Stewart and Meryl Tankard, Performance Paradigm, No. 19, 88-108
Tonkin, Maggie. 2017. Fifty: Half a Century of Australian Dance Theatre. Wakefield Press.
Trezise, Bryoni & Erin Branningan. 2014. Gideon Obarzanek: Glow, Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian Choreographers. Eds. Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter, Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 62-75
Van Hout, Vicki. 2024. Horizon: Bangarra's Unapologetic Proclaimation of Identity, Australian Book Review (28 June).
Van Hout, Vicki. 2024. Talking, Dancing, Hearing, Seeing, Writing, Reading: Notes on Plenty Serious TALK TALK., Writing Choreography, edited by Leena Rouhiainen, Kirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton, Chrysa Parkinson. Routledge.
von Sturmer, Caryll. 1993. Margaret Barr: epic individual, Lesma von Sturmer
Wait, Nalina. 2023. Improvised Dance: (In) Corporeal Knowledges, Routledge
Wait, Nalina and Erin Brannigan. 2018. Non-Competitive Body States: Corporeal Freedom and Innovation in Contemporary Dance, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Sherril Dodds (ed.), Oxford Handbooks. 283-304
Wake, Caroline. Two decades of digital pedagogies in the performing arts: a comparative survey of theatre, performance, and dance, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Vol. 14, No. 1, 52–69