Contemporary dance books

Memoir by the avant-garde dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker recounting her childhood years, sexual misadventures,...  Read More >>

Includes drawing basics and construction of the hop-hop look; ways to capture the mannerisms and spirit of the young...  Read More >>

For more than four decades, Twyla Tharp has been a phenomenon in American dance, a choreographer who not only broke...  Read More >>

When the American modern dancers Isadora Duncan (1877-1928) and Martha Graham (1894-1991) read Nietzsche, they were...  Read More >>

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Dancing Identity presents a series of interconnected...  Read More >>

Documents the lives of two remarkable women artists who were at the center of 20th century dance modernism. Written...  Read More >>

A collection of striking photographic essays dedicated to contemporary dance.  Read More >>

Karina, a professional dancer who fled wartime Germany, and dance historian Kant (U. of Pennsylvania) counter revisionist...  Read More >>

This iconoclastic analysis explores Cunningham's life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments...  Read More >>

This iconoclastic analysis explores Cunningham's life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments...  Read More >>

Jazzism is another name for Neoliberal Arts. Neoliberal Arts is about the interpretation and critique of all branches...  Read More >>

Collects the far-reaching and influential work of an eminent dance critic and scholar.  Read More >>

An inquiry into improvisation as practiced by Richard Bull and his contemporaries.  Read More >>

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This text exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved dance to the edges of society. Through...  Read More >>

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This is the story of three passionate choreographers and their colleagues who created European modern dance in the...  Read More >>

"A compilation of interviews with Martha Graham's """"family"""" of dancers, teachers, choreographers and actors,...  Read More >>

Choreographer, teacher and former artistic producer of the Canada Dance Festival Brian Webb encourages everyone...  Read More >>

Taking the greatest World Cup goal and transforming it into dance, this book records the goal's notation and three...  Read More >>

This is a chronicle of The New Dance Group (NDG), the radical dance group formed in New York City in 1932 in the...  Read More >>

A illustrated guide ranging from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap...  Read More >>