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Finding Balance

Fitness, Training, and Health for a Lifetime in Dance

By Gigi Berardi

Finding Balance: Fitness, Health, and Training for a Lifetime in Dance gives an overview of issues faced by all performing dancers: injury and treatment; technique…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94339-0 (Routledge)

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Transcending Boundaries

My Dancing Life

By Donald McKayle

Transcending Boundaries is an autobiography tracing the multifaceted and wide-ranging career of choreographer, director, performer and professor of dance, Donald McKayle. His chance meeting with…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27016-8 (Routledge)

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Merce Cunningham

The Modernizing of Modern Dance

By Roger Copeland

Merce Cunningham and the Modernizing of Modern Dance is a complete study of the life and work of this seminal choreographer/dancer. More than…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96575-0 (Routledge)

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What's So Funny?

Sketches from My Life

By Lotte Goslar

Illustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-9057021770 (Routledge)

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Frontiers

American Modern Dancer and Dance Educator

By Karen Bell-Kanner

The daily life of Bonnie Bird, as an American modern dancer in the 1930s, is uniquely revealed in this book. Karen Bell-Kanner shares with the…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-9057550348 (Routledge)

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Alvin Ailey

An American Visionary

Edited by Muriel Topaz

During its three and half decades, the Alvin Ailey Company has left lasting markers on the playing field of American Modern Dance. It has established…

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1996 | Paperback: 978-3718658350 (Routledge)

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East Meets West in Dance

Voices in the Cross-Cultural Dialogue

Edited by John Solomon, Ruth Solomon

East Meets West in Dance chronicles this development in the words of many of its best known and most active exponents. This collection of articles…

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1995 | Paperback: 978-3718656042 (Routledge)

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Modern Dance in Germany and the United States

Crosscurrents and Influences

By Isa Partsch-Bergsohn

1995 | Video cassette: 978-3718657360 (Routledge)

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Modern Dance in Germany and the United States

Crosscurrents and Influences

By Isa Partsch-Bergsohn

1995 | Video cassette: 978-3718657377 (Routledge)

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Elements of Performance

A Guide for Performers in Dance, Theatre and Opera

By Pauline Koner

Elements of Performance is based on Pauline Koner's course of the same name taught at the Juilliard School in New York. It discusses her theories…

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1992 | Paperback: 978-3718652662 (Routledge)

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