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Books: Modern - General
 Acts 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] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 Aerial dance.
Author: Bernasconi, Jayne C & Nancy E Smith Published: 2008 This is the first book to showcase this newest (2008) dance genre, tracing its historical roots and defining its place... [full description] | Paperback [5441-PB] £ 28.50 Add to order |
 Ailey ascending: a portrait in motion.
Author: Eccles, Andrew Published: 2007 A large format book with nearly 90 photographs (about one third in colour, the rest in monochrome) of the Alvin Ailey... [full description] | Hardback [5572-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 Ailey spirit, the journey of an American dance company.
Author: Tracy, Robert Published: 2004 Over the course of forty-five years, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has evolved from a small group of young... [full description] | Hardback [0888-HB] £ 22.50 Add to order |
 Akram 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 |
 Anarchic 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 |
 Anna 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] | Paperback [3816-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order |
 Anna 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] | Hardback [5019-HB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
Anna Sokolow, a rebellious spirit. Author: Warren, Larry Published: | Paperback [3406-PB] £ 35.00 Add to order |
 Ariane 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] £ 16.99 Add to order |
 Art 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] | Hardback [2854-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1925-PB] £ 8.50 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [0414-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
 Before, 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] £ 24.00 Add to order |
 Being watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s.
Author: Lambert-Beatty, Carrie Published: 2008 In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body: stripped it of... [full description] | Hardback [5569-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Bird'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] | Hardback [2867-HB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Butting 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] | Paperback [1196-PB] £ 16.95 Add to order |
 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 |
Choreographing difference. Author: Albright, Ann Cooper Published: 1997 How the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical... [full description] | Paperback [2784-PB] £ 18.50 Add to order |
 Clash, 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. | Paperback [4626-PB] £ 9.99 Add to order |
 Connections 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] | Hardback [1310-HB] £ 69.95 Add to order |
 Contact 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] | Paperback [4810-PB] £ 32.95 Add to order |
 Contemporary choreography, a critical reader.
Author: Butterworth, Jo & Liesbeth Wildschut Published: 2009 This innovative text provides a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative... [full description] | Paperback [5662-PB] £ 21.99 Add to order |
 The contributions of Martha Hill to American dance and dance education, 1900 - 1995.
Author: McPherson, Elizabeth Published: 2008 The life and work of Martha Hill, the prominent educator and founding director of three pivotal degree-granting college... [full description] | Hardback [5434-HB] £ 69.95 Add to order |
 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] | Hardback [2576-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 The 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] | Hardback [0393-HB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
 Dance 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 |
 Dance 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 |
 Dance 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] | Paperback [4792-PB] £ 5.00 Add to order |
 The dance of death, Kurt Jooss and the Weimar years.
Author: Walther, Suzanne Published: 1994 The German choreographer Kurt Jooss (1901-1979) belonged to a generation of artists who grew up and matured between the... [full description] | Paperback [1911-PB] £ 20.99 Add to order |
 The dance theatre of Kurt Jooss.
Author: Walther, Suzanne Published: 1993 A collection of scholarly articles on Jooss, his background, and his ballets. | Paperback [1915-PB] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 Dance 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 |
 The dancer within: intimate conversations with great dancers.
Author: Eichenbaum, Rose Published: A collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and... [full description] | Hardback [5447-HB] £ 22.50 Add to order |
 Dances 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. | Paperback [1464-PB] £ 28.00 Add to order |
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 |
 Dancing 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 |
 Dancing 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] | Hardback [1838-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 Dancing 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] | Hardback [5288-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Dancing revelations, Alvin Ailey's embodiment of African American culture.
Author: DeFrantz, Thomas F Published: 2004 In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multiracial company of dancers that performed... [full description] | Paperback [1627-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
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] £ 17.99 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 |
 Die 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] | Hardback [0878-HB] £ 35.00 Add to order |
 Done 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] | Paperback [1780-PB] £ 21.50 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [3405-PB] £ 22.99 Add to order |
 Doris 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 |
 Ecstasy 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 |
 Electric 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] | Hardback [5244-HB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
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 | Hardback [1447-HB] £ 14.95 Add to order |
 Essential 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 |
 The 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 |
 Europe 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 |
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 |
 Feelings 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] | Hardback [4726-HB] £ 24.95 Add to order |
 Fifty contemporary choreographers.
Author: Bremser, Martha (ed) Published: 1999 A unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of today's most prominent choreographers. Includes dance makers... [full description] | Paperback [1322-PB] £ 17.99 Add to order |
 Fleeting 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] | Paperback [1427-PB] £ 22.99 Add to order |
 Further steps 2: Fourteen choreographers om What's the RAGE in modern dance.
Author: Kreemer, Constance Published: 2008 Further Steps 2 brings together New York's foremost choreographers - among them MacArthur 'Genius' award winners... [full description] | Paperback [5529-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 A game for dancers: performing modernism in the postwar years, 1945 - 1960.
Author: Morris, Gay Published: 2006 A game for dancers examines the difficulties American modern dancers faced as the Cold War took hold and the... [full description] | Paperback [4716-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order |
 Geography: 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] | Hardback [3279-HB] £ 22.50 Add to order |
Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna's contribution to Ausdruckstanz. Author: Vernon-Warren, Bettina Published: A collection of writings about one of the leading exponents of Ausdruckstanz in the 1920s and 1930s. | Hardback [0677-HB] £ 60.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1068-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1195-PB] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 Henri 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 |
 Hijikata 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 |
 Hitler's dancers: German modern dance and the Third Reich.
Author: Karina, Lilian & Marion Kant Published: 2003 The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art, but dance was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found... [full description] | Paperback [0953-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
 How 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 |
 Howling 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] | Hardback [4700-HB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 In 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 |
 Irish 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] | Paperback [4880-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Isadora: 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. | Hardback [1665-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [2390-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 Jose Limon and La Malinche.
Author: Seed, Patricia Published: 2008 José Limón (1908-1972) was one of the leading figures of modern dance in the twentieth century. Hailed by... [full description] | Hardback [5342-HB] £ 24.99 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [1242-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 Jose 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] | Paperback [1466-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Judson 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] | Paperback [4764-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Katherine 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] | Hardback [0303-HB] £ 24.00 Add to order |
 Kazuo 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] | Paperback [4308-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1679-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order |
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. | Paperback [1581-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [0343-HB] £ 39.95 Add to order |
 Liebe 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] | Paperback [1601-PB] £ 22.50 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [2939-HB] £ 12.95 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [1451-HB] £ 37.00 Add to order |
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. | Paperback [1450-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [2504-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
 Mark Morris' l'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato.
Author: Escoffier, Jeffrey & Matthew Lore Published: 2001 A celebration and commemoration of one of Morris's greatest achievements. Each of the dance's thirty-two sections is... [full description] | Hardback [0908-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
Mark Morris. Author: Acocella, Joan Published: 1995 A portrait of the life and works of one one America's most exciting and important choreographers. | Paperback [0164-PB] £ 19.50 Add to order |
 Martha Graham, a dancer's life.
Author: Freedman, Russell Published: 1998 A short, very well illustrated biography, particularly well suited to secondary school use. | Hardback [3529-HB] £ 12.95 Add to order |
 Martha Graham, the evolution of her dance theory and training.
Author: Horosko, Marian Published: 2002 A revised and extended version of Horosko's 1991 book dealing with the development of Graham's technique, as witnessed... [full description] | Paperback [1363-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order |
 Martha Hill & the making of American dance.
Author: Soares, Janet Mansfield Published: 2009 Martha Hill (1900 - 1995) was one of the most influential figures of twentieth century American dance. Her vision and... [full description] | Hardback [5677-HB] £ 21.95 Add to order |
 Mary Wigman.
Author: Newhall, Mary Anne Santos Published: 2008 A dancer, teacher and choreographer, Mary Wigman was a leading innovator in expressionist dance. Her radical... [full description] | Paperback [5570-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order |
 Matthew 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] | Paperback [1386-PB] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 May 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] | Paperback [0499-PB] £ 15.99 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1750-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
 Merce 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] | Paperback [0426-PB] £ 22.99 Add to order |
 Merce my way.
Author: Baryshnikov, Mikhail Published: 2008 A collection of more than 80 full colour photographs of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in action, the photographs... [full description] | Hardback [5620-HB] £ 32.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [2787-PB] £ 16.50 Add to order |
 Modern 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] | Paperback [0520-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [3189-PB] £ 35.00 Add to order |
 Modern 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] | Hardback [3989-HB] £ 60.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1646-PB] £ 13.95 Add to order |
 Modern dance.
Author: Solway, Andrew Published: 2008 A short, well illustrated introduction for advanced primary level children, providing a detailed look at the... [full description] | Paperback [5517-PB] £ 8.99 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [2542-HB] £ 37.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [2010-PB] £ 9.99 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [1438-PB] £ 14.00 Add to order |
 New dance: writings on modern dance.
Author: Humphrey, Doris Published: 2008 This collection of essays, lectures and notes, selected by Humphrey's son, Charles Humphrey Woodford, reveals the... [full description] | Hardback [5568-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 No 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] | Hardback [0345-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order |
 No 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] | Paperback [1067-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [0502-HB] £ 14.95 Add to order |
 Out 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] | Paperback [0137-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [5253-PB] £ 18.99 Add to order |
 Perfecting 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] | Spiral bound [4623-SP] £ 12.99 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [2474-PB] £ 7.95 Add to order |
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 |
 Physical theatres: a critical introduction.
Author: Murray, Simon & John Keefe Published: 2007 Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction is the first account to provide a comprehensive overview of... [full description] | Paperback [5602-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Physical theatres: a critical reader.
Author: Murray, Simon & John Keefe Published: 2007 Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader is an invaluable resource for students of physically orientated theatre and... [full description] | Paperback [5603-PB] £ 22.99 Add to order |
 Pina Bausch Dance Theatre.
Author: Servos, Norbert Published: 2008 Pina Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal have created a global art form, captivating audiences worldwide. In their... [full description] | Paperback [5548-PB] £ 28.99 Add to order |
 Pina 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] | Paperback [0360-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
 Pina 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] | Paperback [0765-PB] £ 22.95 Add to order |
 Pina Bausch.
Author: Climenhaga, Royd Published: 2008 An overview of Pina Bausch's work and methods, combining: an historical and artistic context for Bausch's work; her own... [full description] | Paperback [5558-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order |
 Point of departure.
Author: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie Published: 2008 This book is for dancers and choreographers. It is based on Rudolf Laban's inspired work on spatial organisation for... [full description] | Spiral bound [5561-SP] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 Prime movers, the makers of modern dance in America.
Author: Mazo, Joseph H Published: 2000 A revised and expanded edition of a standard popular history of Amrican modern dance. | Paperback [1103-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
Private domain, an autobiography. Author: Taylor, Paul Published: 1988 The entertainingly eccentric autobiography of one of America's great modern dance choreographers. | Paperback [1753-PB] £ 13.95 Add to order |
Rachel Rosenthal. Author: Roth, Moira Published: | Hardback [2788-HB] £ 34.95 Add to order |
 Reading dance: a gathering of memoirs, reportage, criticism, profiles, and some uncategorizable extras.
Author: Gottlieb, Robert Published: Collections of dance writing excerpts tend to be mixed bags, often put together to give students the opportunity of not... [full description] | Hardback [5567-HB] £ 28.99 Add to order |
 Reclaiming 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] | Hardback [5159-HB] £ 89.95 Add to order |
 Reinventing 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] | Hardback [2483-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [5200-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order |
 Rhythmic 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] | Paperback [4905-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 Rosalia 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] | Paperback [1295-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 Rosemary Butcher: Choreography, collisions and collaborations.
Author: Butcher, Rosemary Published: 2005 Rosemary Butcher, Choreography, collisions and collaborations celebrates the remarkable artistic output of... [full description] | Paperback [4599-PB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
 Rudolf Laban, an extraordinary life.
Author: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie Published: 1998, 2008 A visionary, a mystic, a lover, a leader, dancer, an artist, a teacher, a theorist. Rudolf Laban (1879-1958) was all... [full description] | Paperback [2509-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 Rudolf Laban.
Author: Bradley, Karen K Published: 2008 This is one of a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the 20th century. Each volume explains the... [full description] | Paperback [5515-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order |
 Rudolf Laban: the dancer of the crystal.
Author: Doerr, Evelyn Published: 2008 Rudolf Laban, the famed dancer-choreographer and 'founding father' of modern dance, also had experience as a painter,... [full description] | Paperback [5428-PB] £ 44.00 Add to order |
 Schrifttanz, 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] | Paperback [2658-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [0749-PB] £ 16.95 Add to order |
 Sigurd 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] | Paperback [1778-PB] £ 14.50 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [1453-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
 Sisters 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] | Hardback [2074-HB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
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] | Hardback [2226-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order |
 Speaking 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] | Paperback [2383-PB] £ 15.99 Add to order |
 Stopmotion, the dance photography of Chris Nash.
Author: Nash, Chris Published: 2001 37 colour and black & white images of British modern dancers including Michael Clark, Javier de Frutos, The... [full description] | Paperback [5763-PB] £ 7.50 Add to order |
 Striding 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] | Paperback [2712-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 The 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] | Paperback [5166-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
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] | Paperback [0191-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order |
 The tail of the dragon, New dance, 1976-1982.
Author: Siegel, Marcia B. & Nathaniel Tileston Published: 1991 In The tail of the dragon, Marcia Siegel and Nathaniel Tileston track the evolution of new dance in New York... [full description] | Paperback [1369-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
 Taken by surprise, a dance improvisation reader.
Author: Albright, Ann Cooper & David Gere Published: 2003 A collection of classic and new writings on dance improvisation, bringing together twenty-one essays by prominent... [full description] | Paperback [4392-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Traces of light: absence and presence in the work of Loie Fuller.
Author: Albright, Ann Cooper Published: 2007 One of the most famous dancers of the early 1900s, Loïe Fuller created an extraordinary sensation in Paris with... [full description] | Paperback [5208-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order |
 Transcending boundaries: my dancing life.
Author: McKayle, Donald Published: 2001 An illuminating autobiography that traces the multifaceted career of choreographer, director, performer, and professor... [full description] | Paperback [0613-PB] £ 26.99 Add to order |
 Tree. Belief/Culture/Balance.
Author: Lemon, Ralph Published: 2004 Tree is the second installment in Ralph Lemon's critically acclaimed performance trilogy, and documents his... [full description] | Paperback [3990-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
Upward panic, the autobiography of Eva Palmer-Sikelianos. Author: Anton, John P. Published: 1993 The autobiography of a New York heiress, born in 1874, who contributed greatly to the revival of interest in the... [full description] | Paperback [0838-PB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 The vision of modern dance.
Author: Brown, Jean Morrison Published: 1998 The story of the development of modern dance, told in the words of 35 of its creators, from Isadora Duncan through... [full description] | Paperback [1354-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
 White Man Sleeps, creative insights.
Author: Roy , Sanjoy Published: 1999 A series of essays on Siobhan Davies and White Man Sleeps. | Paperback [2984-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 Will modern dance survive? Lessons to be learned from the pioneers and unsung visionaries of modern dance.
Author: Soll, Beth Published: 2002 A perspective of twentieth-century American modern dance seen from the perspective of an American dancer,... [full description] | Hardback [4364-HB] £ 88.50 Add to order |
 William Forsythe.
Author: Driver, Senta Published: 2000 A welcome reissue of this 2000 publication, containing a series of essays on Forsythe's work and collaborators. The... [full description] | Paperback [2389-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order |
A woman who ... : essays, interviews, scripts. Author: Rainer, Yvonne Published: 1999 A wide-ranging collection of Rainer's interviews, essays, talks and other writings, ranging over a period of three... [full description] | Paperback [1262-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order |
 The work of dance: labor, movement, and identity in the 1930s.
Author: Franko, Mark Published: 2002 An exploration of the many genres of theatrical dancing in the USA during the radical decade of the 1930s, and their... [full description] | Paperback [2125-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism. Author: Banes, Sally Published: 1993 | Paperback [1080-PB] £ 23.50 Add to order |
 Writing in motion: body - language - technology.
Author: King, Kenneth Published: 2003 Kenneth King is one of America's most inventive postmodern choreographers. His dancing has always reflected his... [full description] | Paperback [2234-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
X: writings '79 - '82. Author: Cage, John Published: 1987 A collection of experimental texts whose content ranges from the social and political to the personal, musical, and... [full description] | Paperback [1456-PB] £ 12.95 Add to order |
A year from Monday. Author: Cage, John Published: 1985 'A year from Monday' moves beyond strictly musical concerns. With wit, humour, and quiet seriousness, John Cage,... [full description] | Paperback [1462-PB] £ 9.95 Add to order |
 Zygote, teacher's work pack. Ludus Dance Company.
Author: Ludus Dance Company Published: 2003 A loose-leaf work pack for use with the Ludus Dance Company's dance theatre DVD dealing with teenage partnering and... [full description] | Paperback [2096-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order |
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