Julia M. Ritter serves as the Chair and Artistic Director of the Dance Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

"Ritter opens up new territory for performance studies in her fascinating discussion of 'extended audiencing', which drives SNM into a spectator-controlled digital sphere of blog posts, discussion boards, fan art and the like." -- Alison D'Amato, Performance Research

"Tandem Dances is an essential book for those invested in immersive performance or, broader yet, any body-based performance that incorporates the audience's participation and physicality as core elements to the production itself." -- Mara Mandradjieff, Dance Research Journal

"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- S. E. Friedler, CHOICE

"Tandem Dances makes a welcome intervention in a field that has marginalised the perspectives and insights of dance scholars, dancers, choreographers, and choreographed audiences. It prompts reconsideration of how audiences are immersed in contemporary performance by centring on choreography, kinesthesia, and improvisatory engagement as key elements underpinning the design and experience of immersive environments, and offers a helpful means of conceptualising and analysing audience immersion in ways that I'm sure will inspire fresh consideration of the political in immersive performance." -- Adam Alston, Goldsmiths, University of London

"While dance is integral to so much immersive theatre, its contribution remains relatively covert. Ritter has written a much-needed book to work through the production and reception of choreography within this contemporary performance form." -- Kate Elswit, author of Theatre & Dance and Watching Weimar Dance