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.Dance Subject Guide: Books

Library and web resources recommended for the study of Dance.

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Browse the online catalog by subject:

Ballet
Choreography
Dance
Dance -- History
Dance music
Dance -- Study and teaching
Dancers
Improvisation in dance
Modern dance

Featured books

The Borzoi book of modern dance by Margaret Lloyd
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 087127275X
Prime movers: the makers of modern dance in America by Joseph H. Mazo
Call Number: GV1783 .M347 2000
ISBN: 0871272113
No fixed points: dance in the twentieth century by Nancy Reynolds and Malcolm McCormick
Call Number: GV1619 .R49 2003
ISBN: 0300093667
Dancing and mixed media : early twentieth-century modern dance theory in text and photography by Judith B. Alter
Call Number: GV1783 .A48 1994
Afterimages by Arlene Croce
Call Number: GV1624.5.N4 C76 1978
The complete guide to modern dance by Don McDonagh
Call Number: GV1783 .M26
Modern dance in a postmodern world: an analysis of federal arts funding and its impact on the field of modern dance by Jan Van Dyke
Call Number: GV1783 .V36 1992

Reference books

International encyclopedia of dance
Call Number: Reference GV1585 .I586 1998
ISBN: 019509462X
A comprehensive encyclopedia covering all types of dance.
Dance words
Call Number: Reference GV1585 .P74 1995
ISBN: 3718656019
An extensive dictionary of dance terminology.
Film choreographers and dance directors by Larry Billman
Call Number: Reference GV1779 .B55 1997
ISBN: 0899508685
An illustrated biographical encyclopedia, with a history and filmographies, 1893 through 1995.
International dictionary of ballet
Call Number: Reference GV1585 .I57 1993
ISBN: 1558620842
A comprehensive encyclopedia of Ballet.

E-Books

A few examples of books in our e-book collections. Search the library catalog to find more.

Oxford dictionary of dance
Call Number: E-Book (Oxford)
Dance anecdotes: stories from the worlds of ballet, Broadway, the ballroom, and modern dance by Mindy Aloff
Call Number: E-Book (ebrary)
ISBN: 0195054113
Physics and the art of dance: understanding movement by Kenneth Laws
Call Number: E-Book (ebrary)
ISBN: 0195144821

Subject Guide

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