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   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...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-48599-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. 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 the legendary Bill Robinson, who obligingly responded to the entreaties of a nine-year-old and executed...

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

   By Libby Worth, Helen Poynor

   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...

   2004 | 978-0-415-27330-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2003 | 978-0-415-28747-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2000 | 978-0-415-17103-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   1998 | 978-0-415-16447-4 | Paperback (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...

   1998 | 978-0-415-14595-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   South Asian Dance: The British Experience

   Edited by Alessandra Iyer

   1997 | 9789057020438 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New York School of Dance Criticism

   By Diana Theodores

   1996 | 978-3-71-865886-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Dance, Modernity and Culture

    By Helen Thomas

    By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective. She applies her approach to, among others, St Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham....

    1995 | 978-0-415-08794-0 | Paperback (Routledge)