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The Society of Dance History Scholars is proud to claim among its members many authors and editors of outstanding books in dance history and related fields. In accordance with the society’s aims of promoting study and research, this bibliography of works by SDHS members is provided for the benefit of all readers interested in dance history.

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Most entries in this bibliography are for books currently in print. However, some out-of-print works of particular interest are listed, as used copies can often be located on Amazon.com or other Web sites.

Janet Adshead-Lansdale
The Struggle with the Angel: A Poetics of Lloyd Newson's Strange Fish. Hants: Dance Books, 2007. [More information]

Editor. Decentring Dancing Texts: The Challenge of Interpreting Dances. Hants: Palgrave, 2008. [More information]

Ann Cooper Albright
Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 1997. [More information]

Coeditor, with Ann Dils. Moving History / Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 2001. [More information]

Elizabeth Aldrich
From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in Nineteenth-Century Dance. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1991. [More information]

Coauthor of commentaries, with Sandra Noll Hammond and Armand Russell. The Extraordinary "Dance Book T B. 1826": An Anonymous Manuscript in Facsimile. Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2000. [More information]

Irene Alm
Catalog of Venetian Librettos at the University of California, Los Angeles. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. [More information]

Coeditor, with Alyson McLamore. Musica Franca: Essays in Honor of Frank D’Accone. Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1996. [More information]

Mindy Aloff
Hippo in a Tutu: Dancing in Disney Animation. New York: Disney Editions, 2009. [More information]
Judith B. Alter
Dance-Based Dance Theory: From Borrowed Models to Dance-Based Experience. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. [More information]

Dancing and Mixed Media: Early Twentieth-Century Modern Dance Theory in Text and Photography. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. [More information]

Christophe Apprill
Tango. Le couple, le bal et la scène. Paris: Editions Autrement, 2008.
Melanie Bales
Coeditor, with Rebecca Nettl-Fiol. The Body Eclectic: Evolving Practices in Dance Training. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. [More information]
Sally Banes
Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 1987. [More information]

Democracy’s Body: Judson Dance Theater, 1962–1964. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1983. [More information]

Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 1993. [More information]

Writing Dance in the Age of Postmodernism. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 1994. [More information]

Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. [More information]

Subversive Expectations: Performance Art and Paratheater in New York, 1976–85. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. [More information]

Barbara Barker
Ballet or Ballyhoo. Hightstown, N.J.: Princeton Book Company, 1984. [More information]

Editor. Bolossy Kiralfy, Creator of Great Musical Spectacles: An Autobiography. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1988. [More information]

Judith Chazin Bennahum
Dance in the Shadow of the Guillotine. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, l988. [More information]

The Ballets of Antony Tudor: Studies in Psyche and Satire. New York, London: Oxford University Press, 1994. [More information]

Editor. The Living Dance: An Anthology of Essays on Movement and Culture. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 2003. [More information]

The Lure of Perfection: The Culture of Fashion and Ballet, 1780-1830. (2001) New York and London: Routledge, 2004. [More information]

Editor. Teaching Dance Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 2005. [More information]

Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum
Antonia Mercé, La Argentina: Flamenco and the Spanish Avant Garde. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 2000. [More information]
Valerie A. Briginshaw
Dance, Space, and Subjectivity. Basingstoke, Hamps., and New York: Palgrave, 2001. [More information]
Virginia Brooks
Director. The Nutcracker Family: Behind the Magic. 2006.DVD (NTSC, Region free) TRT 94:00 [More information]

Director. Felia Doubrovska Remembered: From Diaghilev's Ballets Russes to Balanchine's School of American Ballet. 2008. DVD (NTSC, Region free) TRT 36:11 [More information]

Bruce Alan Brown
Coeditor, with Rebecca Harris-Warrick. The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Gennaro Magri and his World. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. More information]
Barbara Browning
Samba: Resistance in Motion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. [More information]

Infectious Rhythm: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. [More information]

Theresa Jill Buckland
Editor. Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods, and Issues in Dance Ethnography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. [More information]
Ramsay Burt
The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. [More information]

Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, "Race," and Nation in Early Modern Dance. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. [More information]

Noël Carroll
A Philosophy of Mass Art. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. [More information]

Interpreting the Moving Image. Cambridge Studies in Film. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [More information]

Editor. Theories of Art Today. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. [More information]

Beyond Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [More information]

Living in an Art World. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. [More information]

Alexandra Carter
Editor. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. [More information]
 
Editor. Rethinking Dance History A Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. [More information]
Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. [More information]
James P. Cassaro
Gaetano Donizetti: A Guide to Research. Composer Resource Manuals, vol. 51. New York: Garland, 2000. [More information]
 
Music, Libraries, and the Academy: Essays in Honor of Lenore Coral. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2007. [More information]
Francesca Castaldi
Choreographies of African Identities: Négritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. [More information]
Renata Celichowska
The Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique. Princeton: Princeton Book Company Publishers, Inc., 2000. [More information]
 
Editor and Introduction. Seven Statements of Survival: Conversations with Dance Professionals. New York, Dance & Movement Press, Rosen Book Works, LLC, 2008. [More information]
Pallabi Chakravorty
Bells of Change: Kathak Dance, Women, and Modernity in India. Calcutta/London: Seagull/Macmillan, 2008. [More information]
Selma Jeanne Cohen
Editor. The Modern Dance: Seven Statements of Belief. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1969. [More information]

Editor and commentator. Dance as a Theatre Art: Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present. 2d ed. With a new section by Katy Matheson. Hightstown, N.J.: Princeton Book Company, 1992.

Founding editor, for Dance Perspectives Foundation. International Encyclopedia of Dance. 6 volumes. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. [More information]

Barbara Naomi Cohen-Stratyner
Taking the Pledge and Other Public Amusements. Performing Arts Resources, vol. 16. New York: Theatre Library Assn., 1991. [More information]

As Barbara Stratyner. Ned Wayburn and the Dance Routine: From Vaudeville to the "Ziegfeld Follies." Studies in Dance History, no. 13. Society of Dance History Scholars, 1996. [More information]

Coauthor, with Alice C. Hudson. Heading West / Touring West: Mapmakers, Performing Artists, and the American Frontier. New York Public Library, 2001. [More information]

Susan C. Cook
Coauthor, with Thomasin K. LaMay. Virtuose in Italy, 1600–1640: A Reference Guide. New York: Garland, 1984. [More information]

Opera for a New Republic: The Zeitopern of Krenek, Weill, and Hindemith. Studies in Musicology, no. 96. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1988. [More information]

Coeditor, with Judy S. Tsou. Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. [More information]

Roger Copeland
What Is Dance?: Readings in Theory and Criticism. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. [More information]
Katherine Cornell
Coauthor, with Nadine Saxton. Toronto Dance Theatre, 1968-1998: Stages in a Journey. Toronto: Captus Press, 1998. [More information]
Robert P. Crease
The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. [More information]
Ann Daly
Done into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. [More information]

Critical Gestures: Writings on Dance and Culture. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 2002. [More information]

Yvonne Daniel
Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. [More information]
Thomas F. DeFrantz
Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [More information]
 
Editor. Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance. Studies in Dance History, no. 19. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. [More information]
Jane C. Desmond
Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. [More information]

Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World. University of Chicago Press, 1999. [More information]

Editor. Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities on and off the Stage. Studies in Dance History, no. 18. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. [More information]

Sherril Dodds
Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2004. [More information]
Lisa Doolittle
Coeditor, with Anne Flynn. Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writings about Dance and Culture. Banff, Alb.: Banff Centre Press, 2000. [More information]
George Dorris
Editor. The Royal Swedish Ballet, 1773–1998. Hightstown, N.J.: Princeton Book Company, 1999. [More information]
Elizabeth Drake-Boyt
Dance as a Project of the Early Modern Avant-Garde. German: VDM Publishing, 2008. [More information]
R. Chamberlain Duerden
The Choreography of Antony Tudor: Focus on Four Ballets. New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 2003. [More information]
Mary E. Edsall
Editor. A Core Collection in Dance. American Library Association, 2002. [More information]
Rose Eichenbaum
Masters of Movement: Portraits of America's Great Choreographers. Washington DC: Smithsonian Books, 2004. [More information]
 
The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. [More information]
Karen Eliot
Dancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet d'Action to Merce Cunningham. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. [More information]
Joan L. Erdman
Patrons and Performers in Rajasthan: The Subtle Tradition. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1985. [More information]

Editor, as Joan Landy Erdman. Arts Patronage in India: Methods, Motives, and Markets. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1992. [More information]

Coauthor, with Karine Schomer and Deryck O. Lodrick. The Idea of Rajasthan: Explorations in Regional Identity. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1994. [More information]

Barbara Milberg Fisher
In Balanchine's Company: A Dancer's Memoir. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. [More information]
Jennifer Fisher
Nutcracker Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003. [More information]
Anne Flynn
Coeditor, with Lisa Doolittle. Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writings about Dance and Culture. Banff, Alb.: Banff Centre Press, 2000. [More information]
Sylvie Fortin
Danse et santé: Du corps intime au corps social. Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2008.
Susan Leigh Foster
Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. [More information]

Editor. Corporealities: Body, Knowledge, Culture, and Power. London: Routledge Press, 1995. [More information]

Editor. Choreographing History. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1995. [More information]

Choreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. [More information]

Dances That Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. [More information]

Editor with Sue-Ellen Case and Philip Brett. Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1995. [More information]

Editor with Sue-Ellen Case and Philip Brett. De-composition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Julia Foulkes
Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. [More information]
Sondra Horton Fraleigh
Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. [More information]

Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. [More information]

Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. [More information]

Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. [More information]

Coauthor, with Tamah Nakamura. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo. London: Routledge (in press).

Mark Franko
The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography (c. 1416-1589). Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 1986. [More information]

Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [More information]

Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995. [More information]

Editor, with Annette Richards. Acting on the Past: Historical Performance Across the Disciplines. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 2000. [More information]

The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 2002. [More information]

Excursion for Miracles: Paul Sanasardo, Donya Feuer and Studio for Dance (1955-1964). Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 2005. [More information]

La danse comme texte: idéologies du corps baroque. Paris: Editions Kargo, 2005.

Editor. Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2006.

Plesati moderniaem/Uprizarjati politico. Trans. Alexandra Rekar. Ljubljana: En-Knap, 2006.

Sharon E. Friedler
Coeditor, with Susan B. Glazer. Dancing Female: Lives and Issues of Women in Contemporary Dance. Choreography and Dance Studies, vol. 12London and New York : Harwood/Routledge, 1997. [More information]
Lynn Garafola

Editor, trans., and introd. The Diaries of Marius Petipa. Studies in Dance History, 3, no. 1 (Spring 1992).

Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Reprint, Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1998. [More information]

Editor. Of, By, and For the People: Dancing on the Left in the 1930s. Studies in Dance History, no. 5.1. Society of Dance History Scholars, 1994. [More information]

Editor. Rethinking the Sylph: New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet. Studies in Dance History, no. 14/15. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 1997. [More information]

Editor. José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir. Introduction by Deborah Jowitt, foreword by Carla Maxwell, afterword by Norton Owen. Studies in Dance History, no. 17. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 1999. [More information]

Coeditor, with Eric Foner. Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. [More information]

Coeditor, with Nancy Van Norman Baer. The Ballets Russes and Its World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. [More information]

Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. [More information]

Anne-Marie Gaston
Siva in Dance, Myth, and Iconography. Oxford University South Asian Studies. Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. [More information]

Bharata Natyam: From Temple to Theatre. New Delhi: Manohar, 1996. [More information]

Krishna’s Musicians: Musicians and Music Making in the Temples of Nathdvara, Rajasthan. New Delhi: Manohar, 1997. [More information]

Beth Genné
The Making of a Choreographer: Ninette de Valois and "Bar aux Folies-Bergère. Studies in Dance History, no. 12. Society of Dance History Scholars, 1996. [More information]
Nadine George-Graves
The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. [More information]
Ralph Giordano
Social Dancing in America A History and Reference Volume 1: Fair Terpsichore to the Ghost Dance, 1607-1900. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. [More information]
 
Social Dancing in America A History and Reference Volume 2: Lindy Hop to Hip Hop, 1901-2000. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. [More information]
 
Satan in the Dance Hall: The Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. [More information]
Claudia Gitelman
Dancing with Principle: Hanya Holm in Colorado, 1941–1983. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2001. [More information]

Liebe Hanya: Mary Wigman's Letters to Hanya Holm. Studies in Dance History, no. 20. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. [More information]

Coeditor, with Randy Martin. The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries, and the Dance Canon. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. [More information]

Moira Goff
The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. [More information]
Anita Gonzalez
Jarocho's Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004. [More information]
Janet Goodridge
Rhythm and Timing of Movement in Performance: Drama, Dance, and Ceremony. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999. [More information]
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. Reprinted, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. [More information]

Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era. New York: St. Martins Press, 2000. Reprinted, New York: St. Martins Press, 2002. [More information]

The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003. Reprinted, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005. [More information]

Ellen Graff
Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928–1942. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. [More information]
Joyce Greenberg
Coauthor, with Dorothy Bird. Bird’s Eye View: Dancing with Martha Graham and on Broadway. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. [More information]
Ann Hutchinson Guest
Labanotation: The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement. 3d ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1987. [More information]

Choreographics: A Comparison of Dance Notation Systems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. [More information]

Coauthor, with Claudia Jeschke. Nijinsky’s "Faune" Restored: A Study of Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1915 Dance Score "L’Après-midi d’un Faune" and His Dance Notation System. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. [More information]

Compiler. Dancer’s Glancer: A Quick Guide to Labanotation, the Method of Recording All Movement. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. [More information]

Ivor Forbes Guest
Fanny Elssler. London: A. & C. Black, 1970. [More information]

The Romantic Ballet in England: Its Development, Fulfillment, and Decline. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1972. [More information]

The Ballet of the Second Empire. London: Pitman Publishers, 1974. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1974. [More information]

Fanny Cerrito: The Life of a Romantic Ballerina. 2d rev. ed. London: Dance Books Ltd., 1974. [More information]

The Divine Virginia: A Biography of Virginia Zucchi. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1977. [More information]

Editor. Letters from a Ballet Master: The Correspondence of Arthur Saint-Léon. New York: Dance Horizons, 1981. [More information]

Adventures of a Ballet Historian: An Unfinished Memoir. Foreword by Mary Clarke, bibliography by Selma Landen Odom. New York: Dance Horizons, 1982. [More information]

Jules Perrot: Master of the Romantic Ballet. New York: Dance Horizons, 1984. [More information]

Editor and translator. Gautier on Dance, by Théophile Gautier. Hightstown, N.J.: Princeton Book Company, 1987. [More information]

Ballet in Leicester Square: The Alhambra and th Empire, 1860–1915. London: Dance Books Ltd., 1992. [More information]

The Ballet of the Enlightenment: The Establishment of the Ballet d’Action in France, 1770–1793. London: Dance Books Ltd., 1996. [More information]

Le ballet de l’Opéra de Paris: Trois siècles d’histoire et de tradition. 2d ed. Paris: Flammarion, 2001.

Ballet under Napoleon. London: Dance Books Ltd., 2002.

The Romantic Ballet in Paris. Exp. 3d ed. London: Dance Books Ltd., forthcoming.

Sandra Noll Hammond
Ballet: Beyond the Basics. Mayfield, 1982. [More information]

Ballet Basics. 4th ed. Mayfield, 1999. [More information]

Coauthor of commentaries, with Elizabeth Aldrich and Armand Russell. The Extraordinary ‘Dance Book T B. 1826': An Anonymous Manuscript in Facsimile. Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2000. [More information]

Judith Lynne Hanna
The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. [More information]

To Dance Is Human: A Theory of Nonverbal Communication. University of Chicago Press, 1987. [More information]

Dance, Sex, and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire. University of Chicago Press, 1988. [More information]

Partnering Dance and Education: Intelligent Moves for Changing Times. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics Publications, 1999. [More information]

Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006. [More information]

Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Coauthor, with Carol G. Marsh. Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV: Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos. Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [More information]

Coeditor, with Bruce Alan Brown. The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Gennaro Magri and his World. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. [More information]

Nancy G. Heller
Women Artists: An Illustrated History 4th expanded and revised edition. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987, 1991, 1997, and 2004. [More information]

Coeditor, with Jules Heller. North American Women Artists of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1995 and 1997. [More information]

Women Artists: Works from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. New York: Rizzoli International Publishers, 2000. [More information]

Why a Painting is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art. Princeton University Press, 2002. [More information]

Alice Helpern
Editor. Martha Graham. Volume 5, part 2, of Choreography and Dance: An International Journal. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. [More information]
 
The Technique of Martha Graham. Morgan & Morgan Press, 1994. [More information]
Doris Hering
Giselle and Albrecht: American Ballet Theatre’s Romantic Lovers. Performance photographs by Fred Fehl. New York: Dance Horizons, 1981. [More information]
Constance Valis Hill
Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers. Foreword by Gregory Hines. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [More information]
Sydney Hutchinson
From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican Youth Culture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. [More information]
Judith Brin Ingber
Victory Dances: The Story of Fred Berk, a Modern-Day Jewish Dancing Master. Tel Aviv: Israel Dance Library, 1985. Minneapolis: Emmett, 1985. [More information]

Editor. Jewish Dance, a special issue of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review 20 (Spring 2000). Arlington, Va.: American Folklore Society.

Naomi M. Jackson
Converging Movements: Modern Dance and Jewish Culture at the 92nd Street Y. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England, 2000. [More information]
Stephanie Jordan
Striding Out: Aspects of Contemporary and New Dance in Britain. London: Dance Books Ltd., 1992. [More information]

Moving Music: Dialogues with Music in Twentieth-Century Ballet. Hightstown, N.J.: Princeton Book Company, 2000. [More information]

Coeditor, with Andrée Grau. Europe Dancing: Perspectives on Theatre Dance and Cultural Identity. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. [More information]

Editor. Preservation Politics: Dance Revived, Reconstructed, Remade. Hightstown, N.J.: Princeton Book Company, 2001. [More information]

Deborah Jowitt
Time and the Dancing Image. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. [More information]

Editor. Meredith Monk. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. [More information]

Coauthor. Not Just Any Body: Advancing Health, Well-being, and Excellence in Dance and Dancers. Owen Sound, Ont.: The Ginger Press, 2001. [More information]

Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Hula Pahu: Hawaiian Drum Dances: Ha’A and Hula Pahu: Sacred Movements. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Anthropology, no. 3. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1993. [More information]
 
Coeditor, with Jacob W. Love. Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, volume 9: Australia and the Pacific Islands. New York: Garland, 1998. [More information]
 
Coeditor, with Amy Henderson. Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. [More information]
 
Coeditor, with Elsie Ivancich Dunin. Dance Structures: Perspectives on the Analysis of Human Movement. Szeged, Hungary: Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged.
Kate Van Winkle Keller
Coeditor, with Genevieve Shimer. The Playford Ball, 103 Early English Country Dances, 1651-1820, as interpreted by Cecil Sharp and his Followers. Pennington, NJ: A Cappella Press, 1990. Also published in Studies in Dance History, 1/2 (Spring/Summer 1990). 2nd edition, Northampton: Country Dance and Song Society, 1994. [More information]
 
Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-1789. Hillsdale: Pendragon Press, 2007. [More information]
 
"If the Company can do it!" Technique in Eighteenth-Century American Social Dance. New York: Historical Dance Foundation, 1990. 3rd edition: Annapolis: Colonial Music Institute, 2007.
Amy Koritz
Gendering Bodies / Performing Arts: Dance and Literature in Early Twentieth-Century British Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. [More information]
Connie Kreemer
Further Steps: Fifteen Choreographers on Modern Dance. New York: Harper & Row, Inc., 1987. [More information]
Sali Ann Kriegsman
Modern Dance in America: The Bennington Years. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall & Co., 1981. [More information]
Kimerer LaMothe
Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies. New York: Fordham University Press, November 2004. [More information]

Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan Press, February 2006. [More information]

Janet Adshead Lansdale
Coeditor, with June Layson. Dance History: An Introduction. 2d ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. [More information]

Editor. Dancing Texts: Intertexuality in Interpretation. Hightstown, N.J.: Princeton Book Company, 2000. [More information]

Pierre Lapointe
Trois danseurs intrépides: Montréal, 1940 et 1950. Montreal: Éditions F. Breton, 1999.
Carol Lee
Ballet in Western Culture: A History of Its Origins and Evolution. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999, Second Edition Routledge, 2002.. [More information]
Dawn Lille
As Dawn Lille Horwitz. Michel Fokine. New York: Twayne, 1985. [More information]
Allana Lindgren
From Automatism to Modern Dance: Francoise Sullivan with Franziska Boas in New York. Toronto: Dance Collection Danse Press/es, 2003. [More information]
Richard A. Long
Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985. [More information]
 
The Black Tradition in American Dance. Photographs selected and annotated by Joe Nash. New York: Rizzoli, 1989. London: Prion, 1995. [More information]
 
African Americans: A Portrait. Foreword by Maya Angelou. New York: Crescent Books, 1993. [More information]
 
Grown Deep: Essays on the Harlem Renaissance. Winter Park, FL: Four-G Publishers, 1998. [More information]
 
One More Time: Harlem Renaissance History & Historicism. Elizabeth, NJ: The FIRE!! Press, 2006. [More information]
Alessandra Lopez y Royo
Editor, as Alessandra Iyer. South Asian Dance: The British Experience. London and New York: Harwood/Routledge, 1997. [More information]

As Alessandra Iyer. Prambanan: Sculpture and Dance in Ancient Java; A Study in Dance Iconography. Bangkok: White Lotus, 1998. [More information]

Editor, as Alessandra Iyer. Indonesian Performing Arts: Tradition in Transition. Special issue, Contemporary Theatre Review 11.1&2. London and New York: Harwood/Routledge, 2001.

Julie Malnig
Dancing till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992. [More information]
Susan A. Manning
Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. [More information]

Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Carol G. Marsh
Coauthor, with Rebecca Harris-Warrick. Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV: Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos. Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [More information]
Carol Martin
Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture of the 1920s and 1930s. Foreword by Brooks McNamara. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. [More information]

Editor. A Sourcebook of Feminist Theatre and Performance: On and Beyond the Stage. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. [More information]

Coeditor, with Henry Bial. Bertolt Brecht: A Critical Anthology. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. [More information]

Randy Martin
Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self. "Critical Perspectives in Social Theory" series of Bergin and Garvey Publishers/Greenwood Press. January, 1990. [More information]
 
Editor, with Michael E. Brown, Frank Rosengarten, and George Snedeker. New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism. Monthly Review Press, 1993. [More information]
 
Socialist Ensembles: Theater and State in Cuba and Nicaragua. Cultural Politics Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. [More information]
 
Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998. [More information]
 
Editor. Chalk Lines: The Politics of Work in the Managed University.ÊDurham and London:ÊDuke University Press, 1999. [More information]
 
Coeditor, with Toby Miller. SportCult. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. [More information]
 
On Your Marx: Relinking Socialism and the Left. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. [More information]
 
Financialization of Daily Life. Labor in Crisis Series. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. [More information]
 
Coeditor, with Mary Schmidt Campbell. Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts. New York: Routledge, 2006. [More information]
 
Coeditor, with Claudia Gitelman. The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries, and the Dance Canon. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. [More information]
 
An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management. Social Text Books, Duke University Press, 2007. [More information]
Francis Mason
Coauthor, with George Balanchine. 101 Stories of the Great Ballets. Reissue ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975. [More information]

Compiler. I Remember Balanchine: Recollections of the Ballet Master by Those Who Knew Him. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1991. [More information]

Juliet McMains
Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. [More information]
Elizabeth McPherson
The Contributions of Martha Hill to American Dance and Dance Education, 1900-1995. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. [More information]
Moe Meyer
Editor. The Politics and Poetics of Camp. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. [More information]
Judith Milhous
Coauthor, with Curtis Alexander Price and Robert D. Hume. Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth- Century London, volume 1, The King’s Theatre, Haymarket, 1778–1791. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. [More information]

Coauthor, with Gabriella Dideriksen and Robert D. Hume. Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth- Century London, volume 2: The Pantheon Opera and Its Aftermath, 1789–1795. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [More information]

Nèlida Monés Mestre
Editor. I JORNADAS DE DANZA E INVESTIGACIÓN, Los libros de danza s.l, FEAPD, Ministerio de Cultura, ISBN 84-607-1672-4

Editor. II JORNADAS DE DANZA E INVESTIGACIÓN, Los libros de danza s.l, FEADP,Ministerio de Cultura, December 2000, Barcelona

Editor. III JORNDAS DE DANZA E INVESTIGACI*Oacute;N, Los libros de danza s.l, March 2003,FEADP, Ministerio de Cultura, Barcelona, ISBN 84-607-2365-8

Joyce Morgenroth
Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. [More information]
 
Dance Improvisations. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. [More information]
Gay Morris
A Game for Dancers: Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945-1960. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. [More information]
Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Coeditor, with Ellen W. Goellner. Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995. [More information]
 
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. [More information]
Sally Ann Ness
Coeditor, with Carrie Noland. Migrations of Gesture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. [More information]
Jennifer Nevile
The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. [More information]
 
Editor. Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. [More information]
Mary Anne Santos Newhall
Mary Wigman. New York and London: Routledge, 2008.
Larraine Nicholas
Dancing in Utopia: Dartington Hall and its Dancers. Alton, Hampshire: Dance Books, 2007. [More information]
Selma Odom
Coeditor, with Mary Jane Warner. Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories. Toronto: Dance Collection Danse, 2004.
Flavia Pappacena
Tecnica della danza classica. La coordinazione. Roma: Gremese, 1985 (2. ed.: 1993).

Tecnica della danza classica. L'impostazione. Roma: Gremese, 1986 (2. ed.: 1993).

Editor. Complete Manual of Classical Dance: Enrico Cecchetti Method. Introduction by Grazioso Cecchetti. Rome: Gremese Editore, 1998. [More information]

Editor. Excelsior: Documenti e Saggi / Documents and Essays. Rome: Di Giacomo Editore, 1998.

Tecnica della danza classica, il ritmo, Roma. Gremese: 1988. [More information]

Coauthor, with Marina Gendel. Musiche per l'accompagnamento della lezione di danza, I, II e III corso di Tecnica accademica, n. monografico di Chorégraphie, Studi e ricerche sulla danza. Roma: Di Giacomo. 1995.

Editor. Cecchetti, Grazioso, Classical Dance. A Complete Manual of the Cecchetti Method, 2 voll. Rome: Gremese, 1997, 1998. Italian edition: Manuale completo di danza classica, metodo E. Cecchetti, 2 voll. Roma: Gremese, 1995, 1997 (2. ed., PBA: 2002, 2003). French edition: La danse classique, Manuel complet de la Méthode Cecchetti, 2 voll. Rome: Gremese, 1997, 1998 (2. ed., PBA: 2005, 2006).

General Editor. Albano Roberta, Scafidi Nadia, Zambon Rita, La Danza in Italia, Roma, Gremese 1998. French edition: Le Ballet en Italie. Rome: Gremese 1998.

Teoria della danza classica, I vol. Posizioni, pose e ports de bras. Roma: Gremese, 2001 (2. ed. aggiornata e ampliata: 2003).

Teoria della danza classica, II vol. LÕanalisi anatomica dei movimenti. Roma: Gremese, 2002 (2. ed. aggiornata e ampliata Teoria della danza classica, Analisi strutturale-anatomica: 2005).

Excelsior. Documenti e saggi / Excelsior. Documents and Essays. Roma: Di Giacomo, 1998 (with VHS).

Ricostruzione della linea stilistica di Carlo Blasis. Roma: Meltemi, 2003.

Il Trattato di Danza di Carlo Blasis 1820-1830 / Carlo Blasis' Treatise on Dance 1820 Ð1830. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2005.

Arthur Saint-Léon, La Sténochorégraphie. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2006.

Editor. Blasis Charles, Traité de l'Art de la Danse, Texte établi par Flavia Pappacena. Rome: Gremese, 2007.

Coeditor, with A. Alberti. Vaganova, Agrippina, Le Basi della danza classica (translation of the 1948 Russian edition). Roma: Gremese, 2007.

Isa Partsch-Bergsohn
Modern Dance in Germany and the United States: Crosscurrents and Influences. Choreography and Dance Studies, vol. 5. London and New York: Harwood/Routledge, 1995. [More information]
Alice Patelson
Portrait of a Dancer, Memories of Balanchine: An Autobiography. New York: Vantage Press, 1995. [More information]
John O. Perpener III
African-American Concert Dance: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. [More information]
Frank-Manuel Peter
Valeska Gert, Tänzerin, Schauspielerin, Kabarettistin: Eine dokumentarische Biographie. Foreword by Volker Schlšndorff. Berlin: Hentrich, 1985 (2.ed.: 1987). [More information]
 
Co-Author, with Hedwig Müller and Garnet Schuldt. Dore Hoyer, Tänzerin. Berlin: Hentrich 1992.
 
Editor. Der Tänzer Harald Kreutzberg. Berlin: Hentrich, 1997.
 
Editor. Birgit Åkesson. Post-Modern Dance from Sweden. (in English, German and Swedish). Köln/Cologne: Wienand, 1998. [More information]
 
Editor. Isadora and Elizabeth Duncan in Germany. (in English and German). Köln/Cologne: Wienand, 2000.
 
Editor. Etwas ganz Neues muss entstehen: Kurt Jooss und das Tanztheater, by Patricia Stšckemann. München/Munich: K. Kieser Verlag, 2001.
 
Co-Editor, with Rainer Stamm. Die Sacharoffs. Two Dancers within the Blaue Reiter Circle. Köln/Cologne: Wienand, 2002
Carol M. Press
The Dancing Self: Creativity, Modern Dance, Self Psychology and Transformative Education. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. [More information]
 
Stephen D. Press
Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev. London: Ashgate Publishers, Ltd, forthcoming, 2003. [More information]
 
Naima Prevots
Dancing in the Sun: Hollywood Choreographers, 1915–1937. Theater and Dramatic Studies, no. 44. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1987. [More information]

American Pageantry: A Movement for Art and Democracy. Theater and Dramatic Studies, no. 61. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1990. [More information]

Dance for Export: Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War. Introduction by Eric Foner. Studies in Dance History, no. 16. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 1998. [More information]

Jane Pritchard
Les Ballets 1933. Exhibition catalog. Introduction by Nancy Lasselle. Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: National Museum of Dance, 1990. [More information]
Dee Reynolds
Rhythmic Subjects: Uses of Energy in the Dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. London: Dance Books, 2007. [More information]
Nancy Reynolds
Repertory in Review: Forty Years of the New York City Ballet. Introduction by Lincoln Kirstein. New York: Dial Press, 1977. [More information]
 
The Dance Catalog: A Complete Guide to Today’s World of Dance. New York: Harmony Books, 1979. [More information]
 
Coauthor, with Susan Reimer Torn. In Performance: A Companion to the Classics of the Dance. New York: Harmony Books, 1980. Reissued as Dance Classics: A Viewer’s Guide to the Best-Loved Ballets and Modern Dances. Chicago: A Capella Books, 1991. [More information]
 
Research director. Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works. Edited by Harvey Simmonds. Rev. ed. New York: Viking Press, 1984. [More information]
 
Coauthor, with Malcolm McCormick. No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. [More information]
 
Editor. Remembering Lincoln. New York: Ballet Society, 2007. [More information]
 
Editor. Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works (internet edition, revised and updated). New York: George Balanchine Foundation, 2008.
Frank W. D. Ries
The Dance Theatre of Jean Cocteau. Theatre and Dramatic Studies, no. 33. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1986. [More information]
Marta Robertson
Coauthor, with Robin Armstrong. Aaron Copland: A Guide to Research. New York: Garland, 2000. [More information]
Janet Lynn Roseman
Beach Blanket Babylon: A Hats-Off Tribute to San Francisco’s Most Extraordinary Musical Revue. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. [More information]
 
Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. [More information]
 
The Way of the Woman Writer. 2nd edition. New York: The Haworth Press, 2003. [More information]
 
Dance Was Her Religion: The Spiritual Choreography of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Martha Graham. Prescott, Arizona: Hohm Press, 2004. More information]
Janice Ross
Moving Lessons: Margaret H’Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. [More information]
 
Natural Dance, Dance photographs by Hal Eastman. Forward by Janice Ross. Boise, Idaho: Peregrine Images, 2003. [More information]
 
Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. [More information]
 
San Francisco Ballet at Seventy-Five. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007. [More information]
Lucia Ruprecht
Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine. Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. [More information]
Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter
Reformers and Visionaries: The Americanization of the Art of Dance. New York: Dance Horizons, 1979. [More information]

The Cultivation of Body and Mind in Nineteenth-Century American Delsartism. Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, no. 56. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1999. [More information]

Lisa Jo Sagolla
The Girl Who Fell Down: A Biography of Joan McCracken. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2003. [More information]
Louis Scheeder
Coauthor, with Shane Ann Younts. All the Words on Stage: A Shakespeare Pronouncing Dictionary. Lyme, N.H.: Smith & Kraus, 2001. [More information]
Christena L. Schlundt
Tamiris: A Chronicle of Her Dance Career, 1927–1955. New York: New York Public Library, 1972. [More information]

French Court Dance and Dance Music: A Guide to Primary Source Writings, 1643–1789. Dance and Music Seris, no. 1. Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1987. [More information]

Dance in the Musical Theatre: Jerome Robbins and His Peers, 1934–1965; A Guide. New York: Garland, 1989. [More information]

Daniel Nagrin: A Chronicle of His Professional Career. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.

Barbara Sellers-Young
Breathing, Movement, Exploration. New York: Applause, 2001. [More information]

Teaching Personality with Gracefulness: Transmission of Japanese Cultural Values through Traditional Dance Theatre. Maryland: University Press of America, 2002. [More information]

Coeditor, with Anthony Shay. Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, and Harem Fantasy. California: Mazda Press, 2005. [More information].

Anthony Shay
Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. [More information]

Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Ensembles, Representation and Power. Hanover and London : Wesleyan University Press, 2002. [More information]

Coeditor with Barbara Sellers-Young. Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism and Harem Fantasy. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2005. [More information]

Choreographing Identities: Ethnicity, Folk Dance, and Festival in North America.Ê Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2006. [More information]

Editor. Balkan Dance: Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2008. [More information]

Dancing Across Borders: The Americans Fascination with Exotic Dances. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2008. Forthcoming. [More information]

Marcia B. Siegel
At the Vanishing Point: A Critic Looks at Dance. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972. [More information]

Please Run on the Playground. Hartford: Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 1975.

Watching the Dance Go By. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. [a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395251737/qid=1136923361/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-3715464-0192060?s=books&v=glance&n=283155">More information]

The Shapes of Change: Images of American Dance. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1979. Reprinted, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. [More information]

The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance 1976-1982. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991. [More information]

Days on Earth: The Dance of Doris Humphrey. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Reprinted, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993. [More information]

Howling Near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. [More information]

Deidre Sklar
Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. [More information]
Susanna Sloat
Editor. Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zout: How Movement Shapes Identity. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2002. [More information]
Marian Smith
Ballet and Opera in the Age of "Giselle." Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. [More information]
Elizabeth Souritz
Soviet Choreographers in the 1920s. Translated from Russian by Lynn Visson and edited, with additional translation, by Sally Banes. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1990. [More information]

Carlo Blasis in Russia. Translated from Russian by Irene Huntoon; preface by Selma Jeanne Cohen. Studies in Dance History, vol. 4.2. Society of Dance History Scholars, 1993. [More information]

Ballet Master A. A. Gorski: Materials, Reminiscences, Articles (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Dmitri Bulanin, 2000.

Debra Hickenlooper Sowell
The Christensen Brothers: An American Dance Epic. Choreography and Dance Studies, vol. 16. London: Harwood/Routledge , 1998. [More information]
Francis Sparshott
A Measured Pace: Toward a Philosophical Understanding of the Arts of Dance. Toronto Studies in Philosophy. University of Toronto Press, 1995. [More information]

The Future of Aesthetics: The 1996 Ryle Lectures. Toronto Studies in Philosophy. University of Toronto Press, 1998. [More information]

Barbara Sparti
Editor and translator. On the Practice or Art of Dancing, by Guglielmo Ebreo of Pesaro. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. [More information]
Iris J. Stewart
Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance: Awakening Spirituality through Movement and Ritual. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions International, 2000. [More information]
Julia Sutton
Translator and editor. Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: A New Translation and Edition of the "Nobiltà di Dame" (1600), by Fabritio Caroso. Music transcribed and edited by F. Marian Walker. New York: Dover, 1995. [More information]
Iro Valaskakis Tembeck
As Iro Tembeck. Dancing in Montreal: Seeds of a Choreographic History. Translated from the French and revised by the author. Studies in Dance History, vol. 5.2. Society of Dance History Scholars, 1994. [More information]

La danse comme paysage: Sources, traditions, innovations. Éditions de l'Institut Québécois de Recherche sur la Culture. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2002.

Karl Toepfer
Theatre, Aristocracy, and Pornocracy: The Orgy Calculus. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1991. [More information]

Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910–1935. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. [More information]

Linda J. Tomko
Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890–1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. [More information]
Iris Hsin-chun Tuan
Alternative Theater in Taiwan: Feminist and Intercultural Approaches. New York: Cambria Press, 2007. [More information]
Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino
Editor and Introduction. Biennale Danza catalogues. Venice: Biennale and Marsilio 2005: Body Attack; 2006: Under Skin; 2007: Body & Eros; 2008: Beauty.
Judy Van Zile
Dance in Africa, Asia, and thePacific: Selected Readings. New York: MSS Information Corp., 1976. [More information]

The Japanese Bon Dance in Hawaii. Drawings by Ellen Van Spyke. Kalilua, Hawaii: Press Pacifica, 1982. [More information]

Perspectives on Korean Dance. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New E