Dance Books

Movement Awareness and Creativity  Leah Bartal, Nira Ne'eman : This title explores the entire gamut of the body's potential for creative movement. Dancers, actors, teachers and therapists should find it inspiring; parents and teachers should discover new worlds of the imagination. The authors believe that the motion of the body is as important an instrument of creativity as literature, art, drama or music.

Dance Technique and Injury Prevention  Justin Howse, Moira McCormack

Belly Dancing: The Art of Becoming a Woman  Rosina Fawzia Al-Rawi : "A young Arab girl tells her story as she is initiated into womanhood and gives at the same time a history of the dance that is known to us as 'bellydancing'."

Classical Ballet Technique  Gretchen Ward Warren, Susan Cook (Illustrator) : In more than 2600 photographs, professional dancers (from such companies as the American Ballet Theatre and the Jaffrey Ballet) demonstrate in sequence every movement in the classical repertoire, from the most basic to the most advanced.

The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (Oxford Paperback Reference)  Debra Craine, Judith Mackrell : provides the information necessary for anyone interested in dance to navigate the diverse modern dance scene : "With an emphasis on performance - readers will find both fact and analysis on a wide range of subjects from dancers and choreographers to dance styles and technical terms".

Musical Theatre Choreography: A Practical Method for Preparing and Staging Dance in a Musical Show (Stage and Costume)  Robert Berkson : A guide for dancers, choreographers and directors, this book examines all phases of the choreographic process, such as structuring the dance, creating floor plans, staging, director, costumes and styles.

Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique  Renata Celichowska, Erick Hawkins

The Pointe Book: Shoes Training and Technique  Janice Barringer : Studies the development of pointe shoes and the technique of pointe dancing...

Zaida: Belly Dancing for Older Women  Zaida, Phoebe K. Carter

Inside Tap: Technique and Improvisation for Today's Tap Dancer  Anita Feldman

101 Stories of the Great Ballets (A Doubleday Dolphin Book)  George Balanchine : introduces and presents the stoylines and backgrounds of classical and contemporary works performed by international companies.

Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance: Awakening Spirituality Through Movement and Ritual  Iris J. Stewart : exploration of women's spirituality through a study of dance

Mastering Movement: Understanding Laban  John Hodgson : A study of the work of the European choreographer and pioneer of dance notation, Rudolf Laban (1879-1958), examining the many strands of his thinking and its application

The Six Questions: Acting Technique for Dance Performance  Daniel Nagrin : "First examining the personal essentials demanded by dance, this book then looks at the pitfalls inherent in the act of performing. It asks questions about the essence of dance, going on to the tools required for roles, with the sixth question being the performance itself."

Anatomy and Kinesiology for Ballet Teachers  Eivind Thomasen, Rachel-Anne Rist

Dance Technique for Children  Mary Joyce : A guide to show teachers how to help children explore their movements, stimulate their minds and enliven their spirits.

Ballroom Dance: American Style - Smooth, Rhythm, Latin  Shirley Rushing, Patrick McMillan

Choreography: A Basic Approach Using Improvisation  Sandra Cerny Minton : "Featuring movement exploration exercises that illustrate choreographic principles, this text shows how to solve common choreography problems, design and shape movements, and organize dance performances. It also addresses how to understand choreographic principles and use critical thinking skills"

Building Dances: A Guide to Putting Movements Together  Susan McGreevy-Nichols, Helene Scheff : "This text aims to help teachers introduce, develop and assess the basics of choreography. Accompanied by a card deck that provides 224 movement ideas, this reference takes the reader step-by-step through the choreographic process. The book provides: sample lesson plans; guidelines for the teaching skills involoved; suggestions for organizing the movements; ideas for stylizing and individualizing dances; 112 dance cards; 9 dance construction models for designing dances; age-appropriate adaptions; student assessment forms and sample criteria; summaries; and a glossary that explains important dance terms in everyday language..."

Inside Ballet Technique: Separating Fact from Fiction in the Ballet Class  Grieg

Ballet and Modern Dance (World of Art)  Susan Au

Jump into Jazz: The Basics and Beyond for the Jazz Dance Student Minda Goodman Kraines, Esther Pryor : Jump into Jazz provides students with well-illustrated descriptions of all basic jazz steps and movements and valuable information on alignment, improvisation, injury prevention, nutrition and fitness, and history of jazz dance.

The Tap Dance Dictionary  Mark Knowles : In standard dance notation, Knowles articulates intriguingly, multiply-named steps from "A, B, C Step" to "Zink" derived from folk dance, social dance, clogging, and Irish step dancing...

Pas De Deux: A Textbook on Partnering  Nikolai Serebrennikov, Marian Horosko (Editor) : Beginning with simple exercises for young dancers, the comprehensive text guides students, teachers and choreographers safely to complex lifts and tosses.

Ballet 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet  Robert Greskovic : "everything a novice needs to know to watch and enjoy ballet" but also enough to interest someone with a stronger knowledge of dance. Includes a 300-year history of the dance form, an extensive look at fourteen popular and important ballets, and more...

Anatomy of the Moving Body: A Basic Course in Bones, Muscles, and Joints  Ted Dimon

Umfundalai: an African Dance Technique  Kariamu Welsh-Asante

Ancient Egyptian Dances  I. Lexova

The Yoga of Indian Classical Dance: The Yogini's Mirror  Roxanne Kamayani Gupta

Dance as a Theatre Art: Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present  Selma Jeanne Cohen

Fifty Contemporary Choreographers  Martha Bremser (Editor), Deborah Jowitt (Editor) : provides a guide to some of today's most important dance makers....

The Art of Belly Dancing  Jennifer Worick

Balinese Dance in Transition: Kaja and Kelod  I. Made Bandem, Frederik Eugene de Boer : presents the history, description, classification, and analysis of the many genres of Balinese dance, from the sacred to the secular.

Spaces of the Mind: Isamu Noguchi's Dance Designs  Robert Tracy

Goddess: Martha Graham's Dancers Remember  Tracy Roberts : short memoirs from 31 Martha Graham dancers, recalling the experience of studying, working and performing with "this small giant of a woman."

The Essential Guide to Dance  Linda Ashley : Covering AS/A2, GNVQ, BTEC and AVCE specifications, this illustrated textbook has tasks and activities on all aspects of modern dance courses.

Building More Dances  Susan McGreevy-Nichols, Helene Scheff, Marty Sprague : This manual provides tools and blueprints for creating and facilitating dance....

Dance Notation for Beginners  Ann Kipling Brown, Monica Parker

Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture)  Elena Alexander, Douglas Dunn, Marjorie Gamso, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Kenneth King, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Skaggs, Jill Johnston (Introduction)

Classical Dance: A Complete Manual of the Cecchetti Method  Grazioso Cecchetti, Flavia Pappacena (Editor) : the Cecchetti method of classical dance....

The Body Can Speak: Essays on Creative Movement Education with Emphasis on Dance and Drama  Joseph Roach (Foreword), Annelise Mertz (Editor) : The 19 contributors to this book attest that movement is our first language, our universal language....

Merce Cunningham: Dancing in Space and Time  Richard Kostelanetz (Editor) "For nearly sixty years choreographer Merce Cunningham has challenged and provoked audiences by stripping theatrical dance of its traditional narrative and by refusing to unify movement with sound and decor..."

Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis  Eden Davies, Steve Hurst (Illustrator)

Grammar of the Art of Dancing: Theoretical and Practical Lesson in the Arts of Dancing and Dance Writing (Choreography)  Friedrich Albert Zorn, Alfonso Josephs Sheafe (Editor)

Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique  Agrippina Vaganova

Luigi's Jazz Warm Up  Luigi, Lorraine Kriegel, Francis Roach

Jazz Dance Training (Meyer & Meyer Sport)  Dorte Wessel-Therhorn : contains a short summary of the evolution of jazz dance from its roots in folklore to its modern status as a style of performance dance

Swingin' at the Savoy: The Memoir of a Jazz Dancer  Norma Miller, Evette Jenson : Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/film actress, and author, Norma Miller shares her touching historical memoir of Harlem's legendary Savoy Ballroom and the phenomenal music and dance craze that "spread the power of Swing across the world like wildfire".

Tapworks: A Tap Dictionary and Reference Manual  Beverly Fletcher : official reference manual of the Dance Masters of America

Tap Roots: The Early History of Tap Dancing  Mark Knowles :Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was first used in publicity to describe this new American style of dance, this text separately addresses the cultural, societal and historical events that influenced the development of Tap dancing.

Tap Dancing at a Glance  Jimmy Ormonde

The Souls of Our Feet: a Tap Dance Guidebook for Rhythm Explorers  Acia Gray

Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers  Constance Valis Hill

Tap Dancing: Rhythm in Their Feet  Heather Rees : offers a practical guide to tap dancing.

Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance, Buck, Flatfoot and Tap  Mike Seeger, Ruth Pershing

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