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Dance History


Dance History Books

Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
American Dance: The Complete Illustrated History
The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up (Black Literary and Cultural Expressions)
What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing
Rudolf Nureyev
Satan in the Dance Hall: Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City
America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk
Isadora: A Sensational Life
Latin Dance Made Easy
This is Performance Art
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Sus-sous at The Ballet by Collette RitzWriting Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism by Sally BanesTiny Dancer by Siena Cherson SiegelLa mirada del hijo by Núria AñóBallerina Birdies by Marina Yamamoto
Dance Reference
12 books — 8 voters
Dance Demons by Juliet M. SampsonApollo's Angels by Jennifer HomansDancing on My Grave by Gelsey KirklandWinter Season by Toni BentleyOnce a Dancer by Allegra Kent
Dance, Dance, Otherwise We Are Lost PART1
102 books — 13 voters

Feelings Are Facts by Yvonne RainerMoving Toward Life by Anna HalprinReading Dancing by Susan Leigh FosterLandscape of the Now by Kent De SpainChoreographing History by Susan Leigh Foster
Dance, Dance, Otherwise We Are Lost PART2
104 books — 3 voters

Quotes Tagged “Dance History”

“ Dance history is not only an academic or artistic undertaking. Dance history is human history. Dance history explores the intersection of the collective narrative with the human body. You can not understand history of dance without understanding how dance is the individuation of collective storytelling." Marquita Burke De Jesus, Associate Professor in Dance ...more ”
― Marquita De Jesus
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