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Cover image(Capturing Intention): documentation, analysis and notation research based on the work of Emio Greco|PC.

Author: deLahunta (editor), Scott

Published: 2007

The Notation Research Project, an ongoing initiative by dance company Emio Greco P|C here reaches a major... [full description]

DVD [5343-DV] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageActs of light: Martha Graham in the 21st century.

Author: Deane, John & Nan Deane Cano

Published: 2006

A collection of colour photographs, by John Deane, of the 'new' Martha Graham company, featuring interviews with the... [full description]

Hardback [4914-HB] £ 21.00 Add to order


Cover imageAkram Khan's Rush, creative insights.

Author: Sanders, Lorna

Published: 2004

Rush was the first group piece made by Akram Khan, already a celebrated young solo performer whose unique... [full description]

Paperback [4303-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Alvin Ailey, a life in dance.

Author: Dunning, Jennifer

Published: 1996, 1998

An affectionate yet scrupulously honest biography of one of the most important and most loved figures in American... [full description]

Paperback [0875-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order


Cover imageAnarchic dance.

Author: Aggiss, Liz & Billy Cowie, Ian Bramley

Published: 2006

Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual,... [full description]

Paperback [4650-PB] £ 29.99 Add to order


Cover imageAnna Halprin.

Author: Worth, Libby & Helen Poynor

Published: 2004

Anna Halprin's radical approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art has significantly influenced the... [full description]

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Cover imageAnna Halprin: Experience as dance.

Author: Ross, Janice

Published: 2007

Anna Halprin pioneered what became known as 'post-modern dance', creating work that was key to unlocking the door to... [full description]

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Anna Sokolow, a rebellious spirit.

Author: Warren, Larry

Published:

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Cover imageAnne Teresa de Keersmaeker/Meg Stuart.

Author: Kastner, Irmela & Tina Ruisinger

Published: 2007

A 'two-in-one' book, with text in German only, the first part dealing with the work of Belgian dancer and... [full description]

Paperback [5239-PB] £ 21.00 Add to order


Cover imageAppreciating dance, a guide to the world's liveliest art.

Author: Lihs, Harriet R

Published: 2002

Written for the dance novice, Appreciating dance is a concise history and current picture of all forms of dance,... [full description]

Paperback [0402-PB] £ 18.00 Add to order


Cover imageAriane Mnouchkine.

Author: Miller, Judith G

Published: 2007

Ariane Mnouchkine, the most significant living French theatre director, has devised over the last forty years a form of... [full description]

Paperback [5025-PB] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageArt without boundaries, the world of modern dance.

Author: Anderson, Jack

Published: 1997

An important history of modern dance, starting with an analysis of early influences from the end of the 19th century... [full description]

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Art, not chance: nine artists' diaries.

Author: Allen, Paul

Published: 2001

Work-in-progress diaries kept by nine artists, successful in different branches of their arts. The dance element is... [full description]

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Cover imageThe arts at Dartington, 1940 - 1983.

Author: Cox , Peter

Published:

The story of how the author, Peter Cox, found himself in 1940 invited to join the Dartington Hall Arts Department to... [full description]

Paperback [5267-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order


Barton Mumaw, dancer: from Denishawn to Jacob's Pillow and beyond.

Author: Sherman, Jane

Published: 1986, 2000

The life of one of the leading dancers of Ted Shawn's Men Dancers Company, who was also Shawn's lover. This new edition... [full description]

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Cover imageBefore, between, and beyond: three decades of dance writing.

Author: Banes, Sally

Published: 2007

Sally Banes has been a pre-eminent critic and scholar of American contemporary dance, and this compilation spans more... [full description]

Paperback [5098-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageBird's eye view, dancing with Martha Graham and on Broadway.

Author: Bird, Dorothy

Published: 1997

The autobiography of a storyteller gifted with vivid powers of observation and a wicked sense of humour. Bewitched by... [full description]

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Cover imageButting out: reading resistive choreographies through works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha.

Author: Chatterjea, Ananya

Published: 2004

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha are major choreographers of the 20th century, whose work will leave the dance... [full description]

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Cover imageChance and circumstance: Twenty years with Cage and Cunningham.

Author: Brown, Carolyn

Published: 2007

The long awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her... [full description]

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Cover imageClash, Ludus Dance Company - teacher's resource pack.

Published:

A teacher's resource pack for use with the Ludus Dance Company dance theatre DVD dealing with clash and conflict.

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Cover imageConnections and parallels between humanistic psychology and modern dance at Jacob's Pillow.

Author: Hoffman, Hadassah H

Published: 2004

The author writes 'This study was undertaken because of the similarities between the evolution of humanistic psychology... [full description]

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Cover imageContact improvisation: an introduction to a vitalizing dance form.

Author: Pallant, Cheryl

Published: 2006

In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from colliding with each... [full description]

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Converging movements: Modern dance and Jewish culture at the 92nd Street Y.

Author: Jackson, Naomi

Published: 2000

Many of the most important figures in modern dance have had their works premiered at theatre of the Young Men's and... [full description]

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Cover imageThe creative habit, learn it and use it for life.

Author: Tharp, Twyla

Published: 2003

Creativity, says the author, is not a gift from the gods, bestowed by some divine and mystical spark. Rather it is the... [full description]

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Cover imageDance 2wice.

Author: Tarr, Patsy

Published: 2004

A collection of unique photographic essays, mostly in colour,of contemporary dance, distilled from the pages of the... [full description]

Hardback [4293-HB] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageDance masters, interviews with legends of dance.

Author: Roseman, Janet Lynn

Published: 2001

Dance Masters is a lively ensemble of conversations with seven celebrated dancers and choreographers. In these... [full description]

Paperback [0865-PB] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageDance Now, spring 1997, Siobhan Davies - 25 years of choreography.

Published: 1997

This issue of the journal Dance Now contained a 36 page section celebrating the work of the choreographer... [full description]

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The dance theatre of Kurt Jooss.

Author: Walther, Suzanne

Published: 1993

A collection of scholarly articles on Jooss, his background, and his ballets.

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Cover imageDance Umbrella, the first twenty-one years.

Author: Rowell, Bonnie

Published: 2000

Directed since its inception in 1978 by Val Bourne, the Dance Umbrella festival has long been an integral part in the... [full description]

Paperback [2568-PB] £ 12.95 Add to order


Cover imageDances that describe themselves: the improvised choreography of Richard Bull.

Author: Foster, Susan Leigh

Published: 2002

Trained as a jazz pianist, the New York choreographer Richard Bull did not uphold the opposition found in dance between... [full description]

Paperback [0312-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order


Dancing and mixed media.

Author: Alter, Judith B

Published: 1993

A study of books, drawings, and photographs made and used by early twentieth-century dancers, authors, and art critics.

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Dancing female, lives and issues of women in contemporary dance.

Author: Friedler, Sharon E. & Susan B. Glazer

Published: 1997

How women create the dances they do in the manner they do, work independently and organizationally in dance, and set up... [full description]

Paperback [0859-PB] £ 45.00 Add to order


Cover imageDancing in Utopia: Dartington Hall and its dancers.

Author: Nicholas, Larraine

Published: 2007

Purchased in 1925 by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, the Devon estate of Dartington Hall earned itself a place in the... [full description]

Paperback [5229-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageDancing into darkness, Butoh, Zen, and Japan.

Author: Fraleigh, Sondra Horton

Published: 1999

A diary of the author's deepening understanding of Butoh dance, as she moves from a position of aesthetic response as... [full description]

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Cover imageDancing lives: five female dancers from the ballet d'action to Merce Cunningham.

Author: Eliot, Karen

Published: 2007

Working from the premise that dance history can be studied as it has been created in and through the bodies of dancers,... [full description]

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Cover imageThe dancing self: creativity, modern dance, self psychology, and transformative education.

Author: Press, Carol

Published: 2002

How the choreographer/dancer engages the physical world (time, space, substance)to intertwine subjectivity and... [full description]

Paperback [2823-PB] £ 21.00 Add to order


Cover imageDancing with principle, Hanya Holm in Colorado, 1941 - 1983.

Author: Gitelman, Claudia

Published: 2001

In 1941, Hanyha Holm, the German-American dancer and educator who would later become a celebrated Broadway... [full description]

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Daniel Larrieu.

Author: Lascault, etc., Gilbert

Published:

Photographs of the French choreographer and his works, with text in French only.

Paperback [0045-PB] £ 24.00 Add to order


Days on earth: the dance of Doris Humphrey.

Author: Siegel, Marcia B.

Published: 1992

The dance career and artistic development of Doris Humphrey, one of the founders of American modern dance.

Paperback [1361-PB] £ 14.99 Add to order


Democracy's body, Judson Dance Theater, 1962 - 1964.

Author: Banes, Sally

Published: 1980, 1995

A detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater, a popular centre of dance experimentation in New... [full description]

Paperback [1062-PB] £ 17.50 Add to order


Dictionary of the avant garde.

Author: Kostelanetz, Richard

Published: 2001

The second, greatly enlarged edition, of a work which introduces the concept of avant-garde to readers as it has been... [full description]

Paperback [2238-PB] £ 35.00 Add to order


Cover imageDie Sacharoffs, two dancers within the Blaue Reiter Circle.

Author: Peter, Frank-Manuel & Rainer Stamm

Published: 2002

Around 1910 Munich was a centre of modern art. The expatriate Russian modern dancer Alexander Sacharoff belonged to a... [full description]

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Cover imageDone into dance, Isadora Duncan in America.

Author: Daly, Ann

Published: 1995

Isadora Duncan, her effect on American dance audiences, her ideas about nature, beauty, and expression, her association... [full description]

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Doris Humphrey, a centennial issue.

Author: Mindlin, Naomi

Published:

Part of the 'Choreography and dance' series, this book presents a collection of new writings about the influential... [full description]

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Cover imageDoris Humphrey, an artist first.

Author: Humphrey, Doris

Published: 1995

The autobiography of the great American modern dancer, edited and completed by Selma Jeanne Cohen.

Paperback [0586-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageEcstasy and the demon. [Mary Wigman].

Author: Manning, Susan A.

Published:

Feminism and nationalism in the dances of Mary Wigman.

Paperback [0206-PB] £ 16.95 Add to order


Cover imageElectric Salome: Loie Fuller's performance of modernism.

Author: Garelick, Rhonda K

Published: 2007

Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising... [full description]

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Empire of ecstasy, nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935.

Author: Toepfer, Karl

Published: 1997 1997

An exploration of the explosion of German bodu culture between the two World Wars: nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics... [full description]

Hardback [2789-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order


Empty words, writings '73 - '78.

Author: Cage, John

Published: 1980

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Cover imageEssential Alston.

Published: 1998

The choreographer Richard Alston discusses his work. With extracts from Rumours,visions, Okho, Light flooding into... [full description]

PAL Video [3427-VI] £ 27.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe essential inheritance of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre.

Author: McKim, Ross

Published: 2004

The London Contemporary Dance Theatre was celebrated internationally for the choreographic invention that flowed out of... [full description]

Paperback [2086-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageEurope dancing: perspectives on theatre dance and cultural identity.

Author: Grau, Andree & Stephanie Jordan

Published: 2000

The way theatre dance cultures have developed in Europe since the Second World War. This collaboration between European... [full description]

Paperback [2453-PB] £ 21.99 Add to order


Cover imageExcursion for miracles: Paul Sansardo, Donya Feuer, and Studio for Dance (1955-1964).

Author: Franko, Mark

Published: 2005

AN intimate portrait of the early choreographic careers of Donya Feuer and Paul Sansardo, and the artistic significance... [full description]

Paperback [3447-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order


The explicit body in performance.

Author: Schneider, Rebecca

Published: 1997

An interrogation of the avant-garde precedents and theoretical terrain that combined to produce feminist performance... [full description]

Paperback [0807-PB] £ 20.99 Add to order


Cover imageFeelings are facts: a life.

Author: Rainer, Yvonne

Published: 2006

In this memoir, dancer, choreographer, and film-maker Yvonne Rainer traces her personal and artistic coming of age.... [full description]

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Cover imageFleeting instants.

Author: Marion-Valentine

Published: 2004

Born in France, Marion-Valentine began studying photography when she was sixteen, and her first photographs appeared in... [full description]

Hardback [3343-HB] £ 29.95 Add to order


Footnotes, six choreographers inscribe the page.

Author: Alexander, Elena

Published: 1998

Essays by Douglas Dunn, Marjorie Gamso, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Kenneth King, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Skaggs.

Paperback [0476-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order


Frontiers: the life and times of Bonnie Bird.

Author: Bell-Kanner, Karen

Published: 1998

Biography of the American modern dancer who performed for Martha Graham, taught the young Merce Cunningham and later... [full description]

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Cover imageGeography: Art/Race/Exile.

Author: Lemon, Ralph

Published: 2000

A rich tapestry of journal entries, choreographic scores, drawings and photographs leads the reader through the... [full description]

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The Grand Union, 1970-1976.

Author: Ramsay, Margaret Hupp

Published: 1991

The onstage and offstage life of a New York-based improvisational collective whose members included Yvonne Rainer,... [full description]

Hardback [1028-HB] £ 42.00 Add to order


Greenwich Village 1963.

Author: Banes, Sally

Published: 1993

A year in the life of American culture that would change American life and culture forever. Exploring themes of... [full description]

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Happenings and other acts.

Author: Sandford, Mariellen

Published: 1994

The works of art and performance known as Happenings, seen as a key to the understanding of late twentieth-century... [full description]

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Cover imageHeadlong through life: The story of Isadora Duncan.

Author: Wood, Ean

Published: 2006

In this lively and entertaining book Ean Wood tells the whole life-story of Isadora Duncan, from her childhood in the... [full description]

Hardback [4706-HB] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageHenri Oguike's Front Line, creative insights.

Author: Sanders, Lorna

Published: 2004

Front Line has become something of a signature piece of the Henri Oguike Dance Company, having been hailed as a... [full description]

Paperback [4299-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageHijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo.

Author: Fraleigh, Sondra & Tamah Nakamura

Published: 2006

An account of the founding of Japanese Butoh through the partnership of two of its first practitioners, and the larger... [full description]

Paperback [4737-PB] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageHow to make dances in an epidemic: tracking choreography in the age of AIDS.

Author: Gere, David

Published: 2004

David Gere, who came of age as a dance critic at the height of the AIDS epidemic, offers here the first book to examine... [full description]

Paperback [2085-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order


Cover imageHowling near heaven: Twyla Tharp and the reinvention of modern dance.

Author: Siegel, Marcia B.

Published: 2006

For more than four decades Twyla Tharp has been a phenomenon in American modern dance, a choreographer who not only... [full description]

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Cover imageIn Isadora's steps: the story of Isadora Duncan's school in Moscow.

Author: Dikovskaya, Lili

Published: 2008

Born in London in 1913, Lily Dikovskaya seems destined to live a dancer's life. Encouraged by comments on young Lily's... [full description]

Hardback [5323-HB] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageInvisible dances ... from afar: a show that will never be shown.

Author: Bock & Vincenzi

Published: 2005

On the 20th of March 2003, in a 'dark' theatre in London's West End, Bock & Vincenzi presented 'invisible dances... [full description]

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Cover imageIrish moves: an illustrated history of dance and physical theatre in Ireland.

Author: Mulrooney, Deirdre

Published: 2006

Irish Moves explores and celebrates the history of dance in Ireland, showcasing, and in some cases salvaging,... [full description]

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Cover imageIsadora Duncan: an intimate portrait.

Author: Stokes, Sewell

Published: 1928, 2000

Sewell Stokes became friendly with Duncan towards the very end of her life and wrote this memoir of her shortly after... [full description]

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Cover imageIsadora: a sensational life.

Author: Kurth, Peter

Published: 2001

A detailed biography of one of the founders of American modern dance. Includes 32 pages of photographs.

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John Cage's theatre pieces.

Author: Fetterman, William

Published: 1995

The American composer John Cage was best known for his experimental music and for his collaborations with Merce... [full description]

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John Cage, writer.

Author: Cage, John

Published: 2000

No American composer has written about his work as brilliantly and wittily as John Cage, the professional and personal... [full description]

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Jose Limon, an unfinished memoir.

Author: Garafola, Lynn

Published: 1999

This memoir was commissioned in the late 1960s but was left unfinished at Limon's death. He writes of his Mexican... [full description]

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Cover imageJose Limon, the artist reviewed.

Author: Dunbar, Jane

Published: 1999

A lively collection of articles presenting a clear insight into the Mexican-American choreographer. Although his craft... [full description]

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Cover imageJudson Dance Theater: performative traces.

Author: Burt, Ramsay

Published: 2006

Judson Dance Theater takes a fresh look at the radical, experimental dance being presented during the early... [full description]

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Cover imageKatherine Dunham, dancing a life.

Author: Aschenbrenner, Joyce

Published: 2002

Founder of the first self-supporting African-American dance company, Katherine Dunham relied on her fieldwork as an... [full description]

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Cover imageKazuo Ohno's world, from without & within.

Author: Ohno, Kazuo & Yoshito Ohno

Published: 2004

Kazuo Ohno is the most celebrated performer of the generation of butoh dancers who emerged from Japan in the latter... [full description]

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The knowing body, the artist as storyteller in contemporary performance.

Author: Steinman, Louise

Published: 1986, 1995

A guidebook to creating and understanding performance pieces, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the creative... [full description]

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Kurt Jooss und das Tanztheater, Etwas ganz Neues muss nun entstehen..

Author: Stockemann, Patricia

Published: 2001

A detailed and well illustrated survey of the life and work of Kurt Jooss. Unfortunately, the text is in German only.

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Lamb at the altar.

Author: Hay , Deborah

Published: 1994

The choreographer's account of a four-month seminar in Austin, and how 44 trained and untrained dancers became a human... [full description]

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Cover imageLiebe Hanya: Mary Wigman's letters to Hanya Holm.

Author: Wigman, Mary

Published: 2004

Mary Wigman's groundbreaking choreography and inspired performances in Germany during the 1910s and 1920s placed modern... [full description]

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A life for dance.

Author: Laban, Rudolf

Published: 1975

An early autobiography, covering Laban's life up to the early 1930s, and answering many questions as to what he was... [full description]

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Louis Horst, musician in a dancer's world.

Author: Soares, Janet Mansfield

Published: 1992

The life and work of Louis Horst, accompanist to pioneer American choreographers, composition teacher to countless... [full description]

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M, writings '67 - '72.

Author: Cage, John

Published: 1973 1973, 1998

A selection of the composer's writings, using typographical variations to provide a semi-choreographed text.

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Cover imageThe makers of modern dance in Germany.

Author: Partsch-Bergsohn, Isa & Harold Bergsohn

Published: 2003

A short guide to the choreographers and their colleagues who created European modern dance in the twentieth century. It... [full description]

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Cover imageMark Morris' l'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato.

Author: Escoffier, Jeffrey & Matthew Lore

Published: 2001

Originally published at £35.00, now offered at the special price of £12.00.

A celebration and commemoration... [full description]

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Mark Morris.

Author: Acocella, Joan

Published: 1995

A portrait of the life and works of one one America's most exciting and important choreographers.

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Cover imageMartha Graham, a dancer's life.

Author: Freedman, Russell

Published: 1998

A short, very well illustrated biography, particularly well suited to secondary school use.

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Martha Graham.

Author: Helpern, Alice

Published: 1999

Aseries of articles, discussions and interviews about this seminal choreographer.

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Cover imageMasters of movement: portraits of America's great choreographers.

Author: Eichenbaum, Rose

Published: 2004

A handsomely presented collection of brief interviews and black and white photographs of sixty American choreographers,... [full description]

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Cover imageMatthew Bourne and his Adventures in Motion Pictures.

Author: Macaulay, Alastair

Published: 2000

In 1987 a small, aspirant dance group with a striking name made its debut on the London fringe. In 1997 the same... [full description]

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Cover imageMay O'Donnell, modern dance pioneer.

Author: Horosko, Marian

Published: 2005

May O'Donnell was one of the Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company's most successful soloists during its pioneer... [full description]

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Maya Deren and the American avant-garde.

Author: Nichols, Bill

Published: 2001

A discussion of the work of the legendary American film-maker, ethnographer, poet, and photographer, including sections... [full description]

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Merce Cunningham, fifty years.

Author: Vaughan, David

Published: 1997

A large format, beautifully designed and printed survey of the life and works of one of the twentieth century's... [full description]

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Cover imageMerce Cunningham, the modernizing of modern dance.

Author: Copeland, Roger

Published: 2004

The first complete critical overview of Cunningham's entire body of work, extending from his earliest solos through to... [full description]

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Merce Cunningham.

Author: Celant, Germano & David Vaughan

Published: 1999

With an extensive text in both English and Spanish the central motif for this book is the work of Merce Cunningham and... [full description]

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Cover imageMerce Cunningham: fifty forward 'from Ocean to Ocean'.

Author: Vaughan, David

Published: 2005

The book Merce Cunningham, fifty years by David Vaughan, published in 1997, concluded with the creation of a... [full description]

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Meredith Monk

Author: Jowitt, Deborah

Published: 1997

Collection of writings about one of the radically innovative artists of the 1960s who pioneered the use of multimedia... [full description]

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Cover imageModern bodies, dance and American modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey.

Author: Foulkes, Julia L

Published: 2002

In the 1930s American dancers and choreographers such as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn and Katherine Dunham... [full description]

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Cover imageModern dance forms in relation to the other arts.

Author: Horst, Louis & Carroll Russell

Published: 1987

An introducttion to modern dance, relating its development to movements in architecture, drama, and music. Reprint of a... [full description]

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Modern dance in France, 1920 - 1970

Author: Robinson, Jacqueline

Published:

Spanning the years from 1920 to 1970 this is a welcome study of the development of modern dance in France, from the... [full description]

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Cover imageModern dance, Negro dance.

Author: Manning, Susan A.

Published: 2004

Modern dance, Negro dance is the first book to bring together two vibrant strains of American dance. Susan... [full description]

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The modern dance, seven statements of belief.

Author: Cohen, Selma Jeanne

Published: 1969

Seven choreographers (Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolais, Pauline Koner, and Paul... [full description]

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Moving toward life.

Author: Halprin, Anna

Published: 1995

Essays, interviews, manifestos, and teaching materials of one of America's foremost dance and performance artists.

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My body, the Buddhist.

Author: Hay , Deborah

Published: 2000

Through a series of imaginitive approaches to movement and performance, choreographer Deborah Hay presents a profound... [full description]

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My life.

Author: Duncan, Isadora

Published: 1927, 1995

The candid autobiography of America's first great modern dancer, not always factually accurate, but always a rivetting... [full description]

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Cover imageThe New Dance Group, movement for change.

Author: Rosen, Bernice

Published: 2001

The story of an American modern dance company, founded in 1932 at the height of the Depression, which was committed to... [full description]

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Cover imageNo fixed points - dance in the twentieth century.

Author: Reynolds, Nancy & Malcolm McCormick

Published: 2003

Both an essential work of reference, and a fascinating reading experience, this is a massive survey (over 900 pages) of... [full description]

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Cover imageNo wind no word: new choreography in the society of the spectacle.

Author: Ploebst, Helmut

Published: 2001

A survey of the work of nine young European choreographers: Meg Stuart, Vera Mantero, Xavier Le Roy, Benoit Lachambre,... [full description]

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Optimistic, even then: the creation of two performing arts institutes.

Author: Featherstone-Witty, Mark

Published: 2001

The stories of the creation of the British Record Industry Trust School in London and the Liverpool Institute for... [full description]

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Cover imageOut of line, the story of British new dance.

Author: Mackrell, Judith

Published: 1992

A welcome reprint of Judith Mackrell's seminal history of British new dance from its origins in the 1960s to the early... [full description]

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Cover imageOutcast Samurai dancer.

Author: Hershkovitz, Meital

Published: 2003

A visual documentary of Japan's dance avant-garde dancers. Through their erratic, erotic, grotesque, uncontrolled and... [full description]

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Cover imageThe people have never stopped dancing: Native American modern dance histories.

Author: Murphy, Jacqueline Shea

Published: 2007

During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North... [full description]

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Cover imagePerfecting Eugene, teacher's work pack.

Author: Hughes, Adrian

Published: 2006

A teacher's work pack for use in conjunction with the Ludus Dance Company's dance theatre piece about genetic... [full description]

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Performance art, from futurism to the present.

Author: Goldberg, RoseLee

Published: 1988

A pioneering history, tracing performance art from tribal rituals and mediaeval passion plays to the Russian and... [full description]

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Performance: live art since the 60s.

Author: Goldberg, RoseLee

Published: 1998

Very well illustrated survey of the multi-faceted art form.

Hardback [2439-HB] £ 32.00 Add to order


Cover imagePina Bausch Tanztheater.

Author: Servos, Norbert

Published: 2003

A survey (text in German only) of Pina Bausch's and her Tanztheater Wuppertal's work from its inception until 2003,... [full description]

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Cover imagePina Bausch, ou l'Art de dresser un poisson rouge.

Author: Servos, Norbert

Published: 2001

The French translation of 'The art of training a goldfish'. The text is entirely in French, but there are many... [full description]

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Private domain, an autobiography.

Author: Taylor, Paul

Published: 1988

The entertainingly eccentric autobiography of one of America's great modern dance choreographers.

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Rachel Rosenthal.

Author: Roth, Moira

Published:

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Cover imageReclaiming Charles Weidman (1901-1975): An American dancer's life and

Author: Lancos, Jonette

Published: 2007

Weidman's legacy has been somewaht eclipsed by his two famous colleagues Doris Humphrey and José Limón:... [full description]

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Cover imageReinventing dance in the 1960s; Everything was possible.

Author: Banes, Sally

Published: 2003

The 1960s was a pivotal decade in dance, an era of intense experimentation and rich invention. In this selections of... [full description]

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Cover imageThe returns of Alwin Nikolais: bodies, boundaries and the dance canon.

Author: Gitelman, Claudia & Randy Martin

Published: 2007

A collection of essays providing a critical analysis of the work of Alwin Nikolais, one of the twentieth-century's most... [full description]

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Cover imageRhythmic subjects: uses of energy in the dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham.

Author: Reynolds, Dee

Published: 2007

Dance is a uniquely significant art form, whose primary material is not simply 'the body', but energy as it is used and... [full description]

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Cover imageRosalia Chladek, Klassikerin des bewegten Ausdrucks.

Author: Oberzaucher-Schuller, Gunhild & Ingrid Giel

Published: 2002

A biography, with German text only, of the Austrian dancer, choreographer and teacher Rosalia Chladek. Chladek was not... [full description]

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Cover imageRosemary Butcher: Choreography, collisions and collaborations.

Author: Butcher, Rosemary

Published: 2005

Rosemary Butcher, Choreography, collisions and collaborations celebrates the remarkable artistic output of... [full description]

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Rudolf Laban, an introduction to his work & influence

Author: Hodgson, John & Valerie Preston-Dunlop

Published: 1990

This book sets Laban's work in perspective and gives a sound basis for genuine understanding of his influence.

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Cover imageSchrifttanz, a view of German dance in the Weimar republic.

Author: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie & Susanne Lahusen

Published: 1990

Schrifttanz was one of the most interesting and important of the Expressionist dance movement in Germany in the 1920s... [full description]

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Cover imageSchritte Verfolgen: Die Tanzerin und Choreographin Susanne Linke.

Author: Servos, Norbert

Published: 2006

A photographic survey of the work of the German modern dancer and choreographer Susanne Linke, whose career has... [full description]

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Sharing the dance, contact improvisation & American culture.

Author: Novack, Cynthia J.

Published:

The ways in which contact improvisors encoded sexuality, spontaneity, and concepts of the self and society in their... [full description]

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Cover imageSigurd Leeder, der Tanzer als Zeichner.

Author: Leeder, Sigurd

Published: 2001

A collection of more than 100 black and white drawings by the German modern dancer and choreographer. There are also a... [full description]

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Silence, lectures and writings.

Author: Cage, John

Published: 1971, 1999

A collection of some of the essays and lectures which have made Cage's name synonymous with all that is unpredictable... [full description]

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Cover imageSiobhan Davies in residence.

Author: Thrift, Jonathan

Published: 1996, 2005

In 1996 the then Roehampton Institute (now the University of Roehampton) held a seminar celebrating the work of the... [full description]

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Cover imageSisters of Salome.

Author: Bentley, Toni

Published: 2002

The Salome craze, sparked off by Oscar Wilde's play, and the femme fatale in late nineteenth and early... [full description]

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Solitary song.

Author: Koner, Pauline

Published: 1989

The autobiography of the American modern dancer, who began her training with Fokine and later collaborated with... [full description]

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Cover imageSpeaking of dance: twelve contemporary choreographers on their craft.

Author: Morgenroth, Joyce

Published: 2004

Speaking of Dance juxtaposes the choreographic processes of some of America's most engaging - and revolutionary... [full description]

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Cover imageStriding out, aspects of contemporary and new dance in Britain.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie

Published: 1992

A detailed examination of the work of the English modern dance company Strider (1972 - 1975) and of four major... [full description]

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Cover imageThe struggle with the angel: a poetics of Lloyd Newson's 'Strange Fish'.

Author: Adshead-Lansdale, Janet

Published: 2007

In The Struggle with the Angel Janet Adshead-Lansdale makes two major contributions to research in... [full description]

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Subversive expectations.

Author: Banes, Sally

Published: 1998

Subtitled 'Performance Art and Paratheater in New York 1976-85' this book is a collection of Banes' reviews and... [full description]

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