Book Reviews: Theatre & Dance. By Kate Elswit,. Theatre And. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 ; pp. viii + 93. $9.99 paper, $8.99 e-book

Elswit's analyses of these performances—Canadian company bluemouth inc.’s 2009 Dance Marathon, British-based DV8 Physical Theatre's To Be Straight with You (2007), US American Trajal Harrell's Antigone cycle (ongoing) at Judson Memorial Church, US-based choreographer Doug Elkins's 2006 work Fräulein Maria, and the Argentinean Berlin-based choreographer Constanza Macras's Hell on Earth (2008)—are notable for their clear descriptions of movement and for the inclusion of the perspectives of performers, spectators, critics, choreographers, and directors. In order to make sense of contemporary expansions of form, Elswit includes the insights of dramaturgs Katherine Profeta and Marianne van Kerkhoven as she explores “the increasing overlap in both training and devising for theatre and dance, and how these processes impact the work” (37). Elswit also marks the rise of devising, referring to SITI Company, Viewpoints, and Action Theatre as employing processes that both “lend themselves to promiscuous formal developments” and also acknowledge the habits of technical training that participants may likely fall back upon in “the continual need to produce new material” (41).