Gabriele Brandstetter is Professor of Theatre and Dance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Director of the Institute for Movement Research. Her research fields are theory of re-presentation, concepts of body and movement in writing, visuals and performance and research on dance and theatricality.

Gabriele Klein is Professor of Sociology of Movement, Sport and Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg. She is Director of the Center for Performance Studies and PI of the Cluster of Excellence »Understanding Written Artefacts« at the UHH. She was spokeswoman for the research group »Translation and Frames. Practices of medial transformations«, deputy spokeswoman for the research training group »Loose Connections. Collectivity in urban and digital space" (both UHH) and member of the artistic-scientific college "Aesthetics of the Virtual" at the HfBK Hamburg. Her research focuses on cultural and social theory and social history of the body, movement and sport, dance and performance theory, contemporary dance and performance art, urban movement cultures and popular dance cultures.

"The volume raises awareness for the price that needs to be paid for 'theoretical clarity' as it is typically generated by macrosociological perspectives, and presents a variety of remarkable hypotheses and observations." Andrea Glauser, Soziologische Revue [German quarterly academic review journal for publications in the field of sociology and for sociological methodology], 36 (2013)