Founded in 1988 as a periodical publication, Studies in Dance History aims to further the goals of the Society of Dance History Scholars by making widely available the extraordinarily rich and diverse scholarship that takes dance as its subject. Ranging from new methods of historical inquiry to multiple theoretical perspectives, volumes in the series answer a growing demand for works that provide fresh analytical perspectives on dancing, dancers, and dances in a global context. Each volume in the series is accessible to specialist and layperson alike, providing a valuable resource for scholars and a pleasurable education for the general reader.

After some years of being identified as a scholarly journal, Studies in Dance History was redefined as a monograph series in 1994. It is now published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Seventeen titles have been issued to date.

PERIODICAL PUBLICATION (** indicates issues now out of print)

• Tamiris in Her Own Voice** (Vol. 1, No. 1)
• The Playford Ball** (Vol. 1, No. 2)
• Theleur's Letters on Dancing** (Vol. 2, No. 1)
• The Technique of Martha Graham** (Vol. 2, No. 2)
• The Diaries of Marius Petipa** (Vol. 3, No. 1)
• Looking at Ballet: Ashton and Balanchine, 1926–1936** (Vol. 3, No. 2)
• The Origins of the Bolero School (Vol. 4, No. 1)
• Carlo Blasis in Russia (1861–1864) (Vol. 4, No. 2)
• Of, by, and For the People: Dancing on the Left in the 1930s (Vol. 5, No. 1)
• Dancing in Montreal: Seeds of a Choreographic History (Vol. 5, No. 2)

MONOGRAPH SERIES (** indicates title now out of print)

• Balanchine Pointework** (No. 11)
• The Making of a Choreographer: Ninette de Valois and Bar aux Folies-Bergère (No. 12)
• Ned Wayburn and the Dance Routine: From Vaudeville to the Ziegfeld Follies (No. 13)
• Rethinking the Sylph: New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet (No. 14/15)
• Dance for Export: Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War (No. 16)
• José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir (No. 17)
• Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities on and off the Stage (No. 18)
• Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance (No. 19)
• Fedor Lopukhov: Writings on Ballet and Music (No. 20)
• Liebe Hanya: Mary Wigman's Letters to Hanya Holm (No. 21)
• Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible
• The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Gennaro Magri (No. 23)
• Kaiso! (2005–2006)
• Dancing from Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities (2007)
• Women's Work: Making Dance in Europe before 1800 (2008)
• Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka (2009) [de Bueno special citation winner]
• Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out (2010)
• Forthcoming: Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey: The Creative Impulse of Reconstruction, by Leslie Main (2011—to appear shortly)

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Studies in Dance History SDHS’s monograph series, published by University of Wisconsin Press, answers a growing demand for works that provide fresh analytical perspectives on dancing, dancers, and dances in a global context. Read more...