Dance History 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. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Alexandra Carter, Janet O'Shea

   The second edition of The Routledge Dance Studies Reader offers fresh critical perspectives on classic and modern dance forms, including ballroom, tango, Hip-hop, site-specific performance, and disability in dance. Alexandra Carter and Janet O’Shea deliver a substantially revised and updated...

   Published January 21st 2010 by Routledge
3. Anna Halprin

   By Libby Worth, Helen Poynor

   Series: Routledge Performance Practitioners

   This guidebook traces the life's work of radical dance-maker Anna Halprin, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form. Tracing the evolution of the San Francisco Dancers...

   Published September 30th 2004 by Routledge
4. Rethinking Dance History

   A Reader

   By Alexandra Carter

   By taking a fresh approach to the study of history in general, Alexandra Carter's Rethinking Dance History offers new perspectives on important periods in dance history and seeks to address some of the gaps and silences left within that history. Encompassing ballet, South Asian, modern dance forms...

   Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge
5. Europe Dancing

   Perspectives on Theatre, Dance, and Cultural Identity

   Edited by Andree Grau, Stephanie Jordan

   Europe Dancing examines the dance cultures and movements which have developed in Europe since the Second World War. Nine countries are represented in this unique collaboration between European dance scholars. The contributors chart the art form, and discuss the outside influences which have shaped...

   Published May 31st 2000 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

   Edited by Alexandra Carter, Janet O'Shea

   The Routledge Dance Studies Reader represents the range and diversity of writings from the 1980s and 1990s, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz, South Asian dance and Black dance. In an enlightening introduction, Alexandra Carter...

   Published June 10th 1998 by Routledge
7. Alien Bodies

   Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance

   By Ramsay Burt

   Alien Bodies is a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Ranging across ballet and modern dance, dance in the cinema and Revue, Ramsay Burt looks at the work of European, African American, and white American artists. Among the artists...

   Published March 4th 1998 by Routledge
8. Modern Dance in Germany and the United States

   Crosscurrents and Influences

   By Isa Partsch-Bergsohn

   Series: Choreography and Dance Studies Series

   First published in 1995...

   Published September 7th 1997 by Routledge
9. First We Take Manhattan

   Four American Women and the New York School of Dance Criticism

   By Diana Theodores

   Series: Choreography and Dance Studies Series

   First published in 1997...

   Published September 7th 1997 by Routledge
10. East Meets West in Dance

    Voices in the Cross-Cultural Dialogue

    Edited by John Solomon, Ruth Solomon

    Series: Choreography and Dance Studies Series

    First published in 1995...

    Published August 31st 1997 by Routledge