Mills artfully weaves together a massive array of case studies, drawing connections across the globe and throughout the century.

Dance International

Mills brings an investigative style and ethnographic approach to dig deep-within contextual layers and personal stories-to discover an interpretation that positions the dialog between the social cultural moment, the dancer, and the dance … A tightly and provocatively argued book that provides a new perspective on dance as activism.

Journal of Dance Education

Dance and Activism: A Century of Radical Dance Across the World, makes an important contribution to ongoing conversations within the field of dance studies about the political nature of dance. The book explores the mobilization of dance as a language and method for activism and radical hope, extending and refining the intimate relationship between dance and politics outlined in Mills's previous work.

Dance Chronicle

Dance and Activism's main strength is that it is something of a pioneer ... Dance and Activism is a welcome and necessary addition to the dance history and dance studies canon. Graduate program directors would be wise to point students toward this book not only as a resource, but as a reminder that powerful and transformative dance exists outside the concert stage.

Theatre Topics

A most intriguing, erudite book.

Sydney Arts Guide

Mills's book provides unique case studies that draw from different forms of dance across the globe. These case studies analyse the actions of the dancers and choreographers, not choreographed works. The majority of books about dance and politics rely on analysis of dance pieces or theorize from generalized notions of dance. Mills also focuses on the actions of the dancers and choreographers whose actions are explicitly political/create direct action in the world. The site of their action is the world at large, not the theatre for a select audience. The majority of books about dance and politics discuss the political effects of events that occur in the closed environment of the theatre or dance studio.

Leah Cox, Dean of the American Dance Festival