Dance Books


Jose Limon: An Artist Re-viewed (Choreography and Dance Studies Series) Best Price: $28.27 Jose Limon is universally recognized as one of the most important modern dancers of the 20th...	Nureyev Best Price: $12.95	Tangos, Milongas and Other Latin-American Dances for Solo Piano (Dover Song Collections) Best Price: $11.21 A unique collection of 40 tuneful, vivacious dance pieces from the Caribbean and South America,...	Native American Dance Steps Best Price: $5.55 I always wanted to do more research on Native American dance, and this book is perfect for it. ...	Pas de Deux: The Art of Partnering Best Price: $2.99 Essential guide for dancers and teachers, and an eye-opening trip behind the scenes for...



Sacred Dance: Encounter With the Gods (Art and Imagination) Best Price: $10.20 i picked this book up on a whim. I just finished reading it, and I have to highly recommend it...	Let's Dance: A Handbook for Teachers	Strictly Come Dancing (BBC Books) Best Price: $3.32 Strictly Come Dancing , the hit British TV series, is a celebrity ballroom dancing competition....	Zaida: Belly Dancing for Older Women Best Price: $12.82 Zaida's book is GOOD! I could identify with much of what Zaida expressed. I would...	Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People Best Price: $29.99 A history of African-American dance in the United States discusses such celebrated artists as...



Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader A comprehensive and multifaceted anthology of dance history -- ideal for the classroom.	Tree: belief / culture / balance Best Price: $19.77 Tree is the second installment in Ralph Lemon's critically acclaimed performance trilogy and...	Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Best Price: $16.00 Editor Jane C. Desmond brings together a collection of provocative essays analyzing ballet,...	Dance and the Specific Image: Improvisation An important book by an important dancer and choreographer. Thumb through "Dance and...	Divine Virginia ([The Dance program) Best Price: $19.12 The epoch in St. Petersburg that saw the Czar of all Russias presenting jewels to the...

American Square Dance Best Price: $14.56 You can have fun square dancing and you'll learn how to dance the figures and even learn how...	Famed for Dance: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Theatrical Dancing in England, 1660-1740	Background to European Ballet (Dance) Best Price: $23.95	Callers' Choice: No. 2	Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City (Mesoamerican Worlds) (Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Danzantes) Best Price: $57.69 In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City the first full-length study of the...

Fanny Elssler's Cachucha Best Price: $206.54 The middle of the nineteenth century was the time of the Romantic Era in ballet when ballerinas...	Big Best Price: $7.90 Big! World Records in the Streets! Plus Tap Dancing Galore! goes backstage with dancer Mary Beth...	Choura: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova Best Price: $54.38 Alexanda Danilova's accounts of her life as a ballerina is full of charming details, from...	Ballet (An Usborne Guide) Best Price: $112.35 Practical, informative hands-on introduction for beginners	Wild West Country Dancing Best Price: $20.00

George Bernard Shaw & Christopher Newton: Explorations of Shavian Theatre Best Price: $11.60 Christopher Newton has placed the Shaw Festival firmly on the map of world-class theatre. His...	Stillpoint: Dance Photographs by Ronald Compton Best Price: $119.36 "Stillpoint" is a decent collection of dance photographs by Ronald Compton which...	Introduction to Classical Ballet Best Price: $29.95	Ballet Class: Principles and Practice The seven principles of classical ballet are explored through the practice of the daily ballet...	A Ballet-maker's Handbook Best Price: $13.95 From a lifetime's experiences of teaching, lecturing and writing about ballet technique and...

Belly Dancing: For Health & Relaxation Best Price: $123.16 Distributed in North America exclusively by Focus, this Duckworth title has enjoyed a steady...	The Swinging Sporran: Light-hearted Guide to the Basic Steps of Scottish Reels and Country Dances Best Price: $22.50 This revised edition of a comprehensive guide to the basic steps of 17 Scottish reels and...	Creation in Dance and Life Best Price: $13.22 The pioneer of modern dance discusses her choreographical and teaching methods, providing a...	Invitation to the Dance	Inclusive Creative Movement and Dance Best Price: $25.69 Inclusive Creative Movement and Dance helps teachers guide students with diverse abilities to...

Multicultural Folk Dance Treasure Chest, Volume 1 - DVD w/CD Best Price: $54.95 Multicultural-it's today's educational buzzword. And it's not a passing fad. Due to...	DANCING WITH THE STARS 2008 WALL CALENDAR Best Price: $14.98 Most of the images in this calendar are not photographs ; they are video or screen captures....	The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet Best Price: $17.95 THE BALLET COMPANION by Eliza Gaynor Minden is a book for everyone whose life is touched by...	Museum Movement Techniques: How to Craft a Moving Museum Experience Museum Movement Techniques describes the theory and methods of an original approach using...	Dance! Best Price: $8.85 This book is about the dance that God desires to restore back to the church. Dance is a...

Marion D. Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance: Training Ballerinas in Black Philadelphia 1948-1971 Best Price: $139.12 This publication documents the work of pioneering ballet pedagogue Marion D. Cuyjet and presents...	The Harmonic Structure of Movement, Music, and Dance According to Rudolf Laban: An Examination of His Unpublished Writings and Drawings Best Price: $139.10 9/21/2009. Review by the Rev. Dr. Charles G. Yopst, D.Min., R-DMT., Mount Prospect, Illinois ...	Reclaiming Charles Weidman (1901-1975): An American Dancer's Life and Legacy Best Price: $188.46 This work offers an original look at the life and work of Charles Weidman (1907-1975), a...	Trance And Transformation Of The Actor In Japanese Noh And Balinese Masked Dance-drama (Studies in Theatre Arts, V. 30) Best Price: $154.37 This study examines the effect of the mask upon the masked performer int he Balinese Topeng and...	Bibliographic Guide to East Asian Studies 2002 Best Price: $360.00

Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star Best Price: $45.00 With a ballet career spanning well over eight decades, legendary dancer Frederic Franklin...	The dance makers: Conversations with American choreographers Best Price: $85.14 Nonfiction: fine arts dance	Dancing Year Book	Irish Ballerina	Serious About Dance? Let's Talk: Asian, African Caribbean, Disability and Community Dance Uncovered

A Dancer's Manual: A Motivational Guide to Professional Dancing Best Price: $258.00 This is the most comprehensive, educational, practical, inspirational and motivational book I...	Tigers Can't Tap Dance, But They Know How To Tango Four-color photographic odyssey of the lives of three cats: Leo the lion, Volente the tiger...	This Is How I Speak: The Diary of a Young Woman Best Price: $3.19 The Diary of Anais Nin meets The Paper Chase is this intimate, entertaining and moving portrait...	Sleeping Beauty Book/CD Boxed Set Best Price: $0.59 Three music CDs featuring the Mariinsky Orchestra's performance of Sleeping Beauty;...	Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind Best Price: $75.43 Reviewed by: John A. Mangarella for Small Spiral Notebook When author Michelle Baldwin found her...

Halfway House: The Poetics of Australian Spaces Best Price: $26.77 Gaston Bachelard's seminal 1958 work, Poetics of Space, urged architects to base their work...	Clog and Character Dances Best Price: $22.13 1931. From the Foreword: Clog and character dancing has its place in education as a wholesome...	Riverdance: The Story Best Price: $4.11 "Riverdance," the exuberant Irish dance phenomenon that's sweeping both...	The Shape Of Love	Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos Best Price: $79.97 This book explores Mexican popular and traditional dance practices on both sides of the...

Samba: Resistance in Motion (Arts and Politics of the Everyday) Best Price: $15.36 This is a fascinating look at movement in Brazil and the relationships between different types...	Dance and the Music of J.S. Bach (Music: Scholarship and Performance) Best Price: $62.99 Johann Sebastian Bach devoted a significant portion of his life to the composition of stylized...	Dance and the Music of J. S. Bach: Expanded Edition Best Price: $19.78 It certainly broadens one's knowledge and appreciation to study the physical dances that so...	Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary CÃ'te d'Ivoire (African Expressive Cultures) Best Price: $22.45 Ge, formerly translated as "mask" or "masquerade," appears among the Dan...	Dance and the Music of J. S. Bach: Expanded Edition This work includes stylised dance music and music based on dance rhythms pervade Bach's...

Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria (New Anthropologies of Europe) Best Price: $52.00 Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgaria for what they reveal...	Financial Intermediation Beyond the Debt Crisis Now available directly from: IIE 11 Dupont Circle, NW Washington, DC 20036 Tel: (202)...	The Spectator: A World War II Bomber Pilot's Journal of the Artist as Warrior Best Price: $61.95 Most WWII stories are told with a "gung-ho" American point of view. And...	Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project Best Price: $13.65 In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance...	Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture (New directions in anthropological writing) In Sharing the Dance , Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within...

The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Gennaro Magri and His World Best Price: $28.60 Italian ballet in the eighteenth century was dominated by dancers trained in the style known as...	Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) Best Price: $107.95 This fascinating book explores the rich history of exhibition ballroom dancing from its heyday...	Social Dancing in America [Two Volumes] [2 volumes]: A History and Reference Best Price: $56.44 As the author, I definitely wanted to write a scholarly contribution to the very much overlooked...	Teach Yourself Tap Dancing This step-by-step guide with full musical accompaniment is ideal for all would-be tap-dancers....	Dancing on My Grave Best Price: $60.95 I've read this book twice before buying and I find that it's good the first time, but...

The Revised Technique of Latin American Dancing	A glimpse of Olympus Best Price: $105.00	Dancing Year Book	Irish Ballerina	Serious About Dance? Let's Talk: Asian, African Caribbean, Disability and Community Dance Uncovered

A Dancer's Manual: A Motivational Guide to Professional Dancing Best Price: $258.00 This is the most comprehensive, educational, practical, inspirational and motivational book I...	Tigers Can't Tap Dance, But They Know How To Tango Four-color photographic odyssey of the lives of three cats: Leo the lion, Volente the tiger...	This Is How I Speak: The Diary of a Young Woman Best Price: $3.19 The Diary of Anais Nin meets The Paper Chase is this intimate, entertaining and moving portrait...	Sleeping Beauty Book/CD Boxed Set Best Price: $0.59 Three music CDs featuring the Mariinsky Orchestra's performance of Sleeping Beauty;...	Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind Best Price: $75.43 Reviewed by: John A. Mangarella for Small Spiral Notebook When author Michelle Baldwin found her...

Halfway House: The Poetics of Australian Spaces Best Price: $26.77 Gaston Bachelard's seminal 1958 work, Poetics of Space, urged architects to base their work...	Clog and Character Dances Best Price: $22.13 1931. From the Foreword: Clog and character dancing has its place in education as a wholesome...	The Matachines Dance of the Upper Rio Grande: History, Music, and Choreography Best Price: $157.24	Tap dancing;: Techniques, Routines, Terminology Best Price: $64.64	Kabuki a Pocket Guide Best Price: $150.00 You can see it on the title. This book by no means tries to be an extended, in-sight...

American Indian Ballerinas Best Price: $16.88 This is the first authorized biography of four twentieth-century American Indian ballerinas:...	The Mystery of Samba : Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm," the foremost symbol of its culture and...	Breaking Bounds: 2001 Calendar	Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema Best Price: $26.92 Relatively free of jargon, and sometimes refreshingly chatty, McLean, a dancer, knows a lot...	The Management of Philanthropic Funding for Institutional Stabilization: A History of Ford Foundation & New York City Ballet Activities (Non Profit Institutions in America Series) Best Price: $130.00

The Romantic Ballet in England: Its Development, Fulfilment, and Decline The peak of the history of the Romantic Ballet in England took place during te 1830's and...	The Modern Dance: Seven Statements of Belief Best Price: $13.89 Like most of the new artistic modes at the beginning of the twentieth century, modern dance took...

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