Choreography Books

New and Published Books

1. Preserving Dance Across Time and Space

   Edited by Lynn Brooks, Joellen Meglin

   Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. Beyond Words

   Movement Observation and Analysis, 2nd Edition

   By Carol-Lynne Moore, Kaoru Yamamoto

   Beyond Words presents a range of illuminating approaches to examining every day social interactions, to help the reader understand human movement in new ways. Carol-Lynne Moore and Kaoru Yamamoto build on the principles that they expertly explored in the first edition of the book, maintaining a...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
3. Fifty Contemporary Choreographers

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Martha Bremser, Lorna Sanders

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   A unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers. Representing a wide range of dance genres, each entry locates the individual in the context of modern dance theatre and explores their impact. Those studied include: Jerome Bel Richard Alston...

   Published March 10th 2011 by Routledge
4. Choreographing Empathy

   Kinesthesia in Performance

   By Susan Foster

   "This is an urgently needed book – as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan Foster writes a thoroughly compelling argument." – André Lepecki, New York University "May well prove to be one of Susan Foster’s most...

   Published November 3rd 2010 by Routledge
5. A Choreographer's Handbook

   By Jonathan Burrows

   On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking" On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis" A Choreographer’s Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually...

   Published May 13th 2010 by Routledge
6. Contemporary Choreography

   A Critical Reader

   Edited by Jo Butterworth, Liesbeth Wildschut

   This innovative text provides a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and traditional understandings of dance making. Contemporary Choreography features contributions by practitioners and researchers from Europe, America, Africa, Australasia and...

   Published May 27th 2009 by Routledge
7. Further Steps 2

   Fourteen Choreographers on What's the R.A.G.E. in Modern Dance, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Constance Kreemer

   Further Steps 2 brings together New York’s foremost choreographers – among them MacArthur ‘Genius’ award winners Meredith Monk and Bill T. Jones – to discuss the past, present and future of dance in the US. In a series of exclusive and enlightening interviews, this diverse selection...

   Published June 3rd 2008 by Routledge
8. Dancing Female

   Edited by Sharon E. Friedler, Susan B. Glazer

   Series: Choreography and Dance Studies Series

   First published in 1997...

   Published August 28th 2003 by Routledge
9. Jose Limon

   An Artist Re-viewed

   Edited by June Dunbar

   Series: Choreography and Dance Studies Series

   Jose Limn is universally recognized as one of the most important modern dancers of the 20th century. His technique is still taught at major colleges and dance schools; his dance company continues to revive his works, plus presents new works. His most famous work, The Moor's Pavanne, has...

   Published October 3rd 2002 by Routledge
10. Making an Entrance

    Theory and Practice for Disabled and Non-Disabled Dancers

    By Adam Benjamin

    Making an Entrance is the first ever practical introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non disabled students. This clearly written, thought provoking and hugely enjoyable manual is essential reading whether you're just starting out or are already active in the field.Taking improvisation as...

    Published December 5th 2001 by Routledge