Dance books

From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer...  Read More >>

Covering a wide variety of forms - literature, photography, film, classical Indian dance, ballet, gang walking -...  Read More >>

Explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress, and the body. Presenting the author's experiences at an international...  Read More >>

Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together...  Read More >>

From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits...  Read More >>

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This translation of the French bestseller Continuer l'Histoire brings the powerful, articulate message of Hubert...  Read More >>

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This book seeks to provide the most comprehensive and sustained engagement and critique of neo-Gramscian analyses...  Read More >>

Camille Saint-Saens is a memorable figure not only for his successes as a composer of choral and orchestral works,...  Read More >>

Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest...  Read More >>

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Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's most prolific...  Read More >>

The dramatic genre of the horse dance (jaranan) is part of an age-old Javanese tradition displaying wide local and...  Read More >>

The survival of African cultural traditions in the New World has long been a subject of academic study and controversy,...  Read More >>

This study describes and analyzes the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms among mainstream Americans. Throughout...  Read More >>

Reworking the Ballet illuminates the choreographic praxis, the context and the politics of reworkings in the light...  Read More >>

Reworking the Ballet illuminates the choreographic praxis, the context and the politics of reworkings in the light...  Read More >>

An extended exploration of Yvonne Rainer's influential 1968 dance program The Mind is a Muscle, discussing its critique...  Read More >>

Drawn from Turner-Fortes extensive personal experience as both an artist and educator, Letters to Amelia offers...  Read More >>

From the traveling troupes of the Wild West all the way to the...  Read More >>

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This biography of the dancer, choreographer, and artist Rudolf Laban offers a biographical discussion presenting...  Read More >>

From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that...  Read More >>

A Photographic History of the Rockettes and Christmas Spectacular  Read More >>