Vertical Dance: perceiving and creating space de?nes the substance and methods of vertical dance. Moretti and Lawrence re?ect on the state of the art at the end of a pioneering experimental era and the dawn of a new period in which emerging artists are developing the form creatively and in which, concurrently, it is being regulated and institutionalized. The authors begin by clarifying what is meant by the term 'vertical dance', discussing the component parts and why these are fundamental to the classi?cation of this nascent form and go on to discuss the boundaries with its close relatives: aerial dance, site-speci?c artistic practices and climbing. They then chart the history of the form and examine its potential to challenge and enhance our experience of space. Authors of the book: Wanda Moretti and Kate Lawrence; preface to the book by Margaret Wilson