Modern Books


Ailey Ascending: A Portrait in Motion Best Price: $32.76 I really like this book. It has some magnificant artistic photos that I think are nice, and...	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Exotic and Pole Dancing Illustrated (Complete Idiot's Guide to) Best Price: $14.34 I think this book is a great reference manual. As a pole instructor - I focus more on tricks...	Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History Best Price: $13.00 This book is especially interesting and easy to follow. It provides a sound overview of the...	The Meaning of Tango: The Story of the Argentinian Dance Best Price: $12.84 My wife and I are Argentinian natives who started to dance Argentine Tango as adolescents in...	No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $40.00 Dance, in whatever form, is a human activity that is usually done vertically, albeit with...



TAP! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories 1900-1955 Best Price: $13.74 I loved this book. It had information on dancers I had not known about before. I would love to...	The Art of Making Dances Best Price: $13.50 Written by one of the master pioneers of American modern dance, "The Art of Making...	The Intimate Act Of Choreography Best Price: $13.79 If you're taking a composition class or teaching a composition class, this book IS the thing to...	The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America (Blacks in the New World) Best Price: $18.69 Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks...	The Dancer Prepares: Modern Dance for Beginners Best Price: $26.80 This is a very good book to use for level 1 Modern Dance technique class



Jazz Dance: The Story Of American Vernacular Dance Best Price: $11.25 I second everything Frank Cullen says about this book. I first read it over thirty years ago,...	Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting Best Price: $13.95 Entertaining America is a captivating look at one of the longest-running and most provocative...	The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators Best Price: $11.90 This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who...	Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life Best Price: $10.04 It's a great book, I read it for my book report book, and i just absolutely loved it! It's great...	The Ballet Book: Learning and Appreciating the Secrets of Dance Best Price: $16.56 I received this book last Christmas as a present and was so thrilled to have it that I literally...

Inside Tap: Technique and Improvisation for Today's Tap Dancer Best Price: $13.99 I bought this book last year, to teach my self to tap along with Bonnie Franklin's dvd and it...	Aerial Dance Best Price: $22.75 The aerial dance performances of twelve leading companies on DVD accompany something truly...	Kazuo Ohno's World: from without & within Best Price: $23.73 Photographs and words illuminate Butoh dance.	Dancing Through History Best Price: $69.36 This book has brought me back from the cusp of darkness to a state of enlightened euphoria in...	Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey Best Price: $16.69 In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art...

The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet: Theory and Technique Best Price: $10.08 Believe me, this is a book well worth adding to your library. It is as specific in detail as...	Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (October Books) Best Price: $17.50 In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing...	Ailey Spirit: The Journey of an American Dance Company Best Price: $7.48 I was so pleased at the condition of my book when it arrived, great photos, write up on Alvin...	Airborne: The New Dance Photography of Lois Greenfield Best Price: $66.98 You will think that this was photoshopped, airbrushed, other otherwise tricked up. It's not. ...	Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance Best Price: $20.65 Albright has certainly accomplished a task few dance history scholars have: she gives us a...

Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement Best Price: $24.99 The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting...	Dance Technique of Lester Horton Best Price: $24.92 The first book to explore the distinctive technique of this modern dance pioneer.	Blood Memory: An autobiography Best Price: $28.97 This is an interesting book if you are into modern dance. Graham was, of course, one of the...	Luigi's Jazz Warm Up: An Introduction to Jazz Style & Technique Best Price: $14.10 This book explains very clearly the warm up exercises of the Luigi technique. This technique...	Harnessing the Wind: The Art of Teaching Modern Dance Best Price: $26.77 I recommend this book to seasoned as well as aspiring dance teachers. I think it broadens one's...

Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance (Wesleyan Paperback) Best Price: $18.71 The evolution of the roughly twenty-five years of American post-modern dance is expounded upon...	Jazz Dance Class: Beginning thru Advanced (A Dance Horizons Book) Best Price: $15.88 This is really a brilliant book. It has everything you need to know about jazz from basic to...	Basic Concepts in Modern Dance: A Creative Approach (Dance Horizons Book) Best Price: $11.39 An introduction to modern dance and body movement techniques, this guide begins with an overview...	Choreography And the Specific Image: Choreography and the Specific Image Best Price: $22.95 I recommend all Mr. Nagrin's books, every one of them is excellent & has both spiritual and...	Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 19281942 Best Price: $6.67 This book gives an interesting and vivid portrait of the left-wing dance scene in New York City...

Dance 2wice Best Price: $12.47 Dance 2wice is a collection of unique photographic essays dedicated to contemporary dance,...	Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs Best Price: $130.00 I had the honor of studying on scholarship at the Martha Graham School in the summer of 1994. I...	Ankoku Buto: The Premodern and Postmodern Influences on the Dance of Utter Darkness (Cornell University East Asia Papers, No. 49) (Cornell University East Asia Papers, No 49) Best Price: $14.40 This "college thesis" is a fully developed on work on the dancing phenomenon known as...	Martha Graham: The Evolution of Her Dance Theory and Training, revised edition Best Price: $15.65 THIS BOOK IS A MUST FOR DANCERS OR PEOPLE INTERESTED IN DANCING. IT'S FULL OF INTERESTING...	Dance Improvisations Best Price: $17.95 Talk about ideas. This book has wonderful exercises to explore with friends, a class, and...

We BGirlz Best Price:* $2.00 This book blends photography and interviews to document hip hop and breaking culture from its...	Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage Best Price: $37.44 Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage is an exceptional creation that explores women in dance. ...	Modern Dance Terminology: The ABC's of Modern Dance as Defined by its Originators Best Price: $8.83 Modern dance concepts, terms, principles, and movements are defined in the words of the great...	Dancing Into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan Best Price: $30.00 Butoh is a dance 'genre' that, for the most part, is hard to pin down into a digestible...	Dance Composition: A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making Best Price: $29.44 This book is great! From the first page down it helps you out in easy to follow guides. As you...

Geography: Art / race / exile Best Price: $5.38 An urgent new voice in the civic dialogue on race and the creative process.	Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Motion Pictures Best Price: $5.79 In-depth interviews with the maverick British choreographer best known for his revolutionary,...	Vital Grace: The Black Male Dancer Best Price: $4.19 This book is very well put together. It captures a lot of what a black male dancer is... strong,...	Dance And Lived Body Best Price: $16.52 In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her...	Josephine: The Hungry Heart Best Price: $16.00 Jean-Claude gives a well balanced account of the life and times of Josephine Baker. With...

Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance Best Price: $25.00 Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post- structuralist criticism, Foster outlines four...	Private Domain: An Autobiography Best Price: $19.16 It's good to see this new reprint of Paul Taylor's great memoir on sale. It would be a tragedy...	Dance Was Her Religion: The Spiritual Choreography of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Martha Graham Three dancers who changed the face of Modern Dance and liberated dancers from ballet?s rigidity...	Dancing Identity: Metaphysics In Motion Best Price: $32.50 According to renowned performer, teacher, and dance scholar Sondra Fraleigh, "to value...	The Six Questions: Acting Technique For Dance Performance Best Price: $22.95 Well written, clear discussion of Mr. Nagrin's approach to choreography, with numerous examples...

The Tap Dance Dictionary Best Price: $44.00 I found out about this book from a choreographer friend of mine - we were in a musical together,...	The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque Best Price: $19.14 The topic is hot, the title tempting, and the text somewhat dense. Author takes an in-depth...

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