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1	The Art of Making Dances more books like this by Doris Humphrey add to wishlist This is perhaps the most important book on choreography ever published. Written just before Humphrey's death in 1958, it is her autobiography in art, a gathering of her experiences in performance and a lucid and practical source book on choreography. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Dancer Prepares: Modern Dance for Beginners more books like this by James Penrod, Janice Gudde Plastino add to wishlist Written by two highly-regarded professional choreographer dancers, this accessible activity book introduces students to the techniques, combinations, and vocabulary of modern dance. It offers concrete, practical information for beginning and intermediate dancers. Key changes to this new edition include a new chapter on improvization with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.33! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History more books like this by Jack Anderson add to wishlist see all copies from $2.94! new only from $13.45! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Geography: Art / Race / Exile more books like this by Ralph Lemon, Ann Daly (Afterword by) add to wishlist Lemon, a New York City dance choreographer and performer, shares his experiences as an African-American traveling to Côte d'Ivoire to learn about not only dance, but identity and cross-cultural collaboration. This travel memoir is told through journal entries, drawings and photographs, and Lemon's ideas for several dance projects. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $8.32! \| first editions
5	Blood memory more books like this by Martha Graham add to wishlist This is Martha Graham's own account of her singular life and career, which spans the century. Illustrated with over 100 photographs, many from her own collection, her autobiography contains portraits of the extraordinary artists whom she knew, and with whom she worked. She tells of her continual struggle against poverty and adversity, to create ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $80.00! \| first editions
6	No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century more books like this by Nancy Reynolds, Malcolm McCormick add to wishlist This book chronicles 100 years of dramatic developments in ballet, modern and experimental dance for stage and screen in Europe and North America. The volume encompasses the history of theatrical dance from 1900 through to 2000. Beginning with turn-of-the-century dancer-choreographers like Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Michel Fokine and a bit later ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $44.50! \| SVS
7	Ballet and Modern Dance Ballet and Modern Dance more books like this by Susan Au add to wishlist Whether as performers or spectators, more people enjoy dance today than ever before. Its extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap and world dance. Everyone with an interest in dance will have felt the need for a guide to the art's rich history and complex present state. Susan ... see all copies from $5.56! new only from $11.94! \| SVS
8	Moving Toward Life: Five Decades of Transformational Dance more books like this by Anna Halprin, Rachel Kaplan (Editor) add to wishlist The collected writings of one of the most influential luminaries of American dance. see all copies from $14.99! new only from $28.18! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Prime Movers: The Makers of Modern Dance in America more books like this by Joseph H Mazo add to wishlist The lives and works of the choreographer-dancers who created American modern dance come vividly to life in this graceful and witty book. It illuminates such greats as Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Twyla Tharp. Together, they made up the group of geniuses who created a ... see all copies from $2.72! new only from $16.34! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Modern dance forms in relation to the other modern arts more books like this by Louis Horst, Carroll Russell add to wishlist Relates the development of modern dance to movements in painting, architecture, drama, and music. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
11	The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators more books like this by Jean Brown (Editor), Naomi Mindlin (Editor), Charles H Woodford (Editor) add to wishlist This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in these original essays. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $12.86! \| SVS
12 view cover	The modern dance more books like this by John Joseph Martin add to wishlist see all copies from $4.45! first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey more books like this by Julia L Foulkes add to wishlist This text exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous. It was in 1930 that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America". Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and ... see all copies from $37.75! new only from $37.75! \| first editions
14 view cover	Art Without Boundaries: The World of Modern Dance more books like this by Jack Anderson add to wishlist A well-researched historical survey of modern dance focusing on choreographers, dancers, and dances, and sprinkled with lively tidbits and stories. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Spreading the Gospel of the Modern Dance: Newspaper Dance Criticism in the United States, 1850-1934 more books like this by Lynne Conner add to wishlist In the fall of 1927, newspaper dance writing in the United States evolved from a haphazard and largely throw-away subspecies of music criticism (covered by music and drama critics and sometimes sports and society columnists) into a specialized field of arts reporting and commentary. Lynne Conner investigates the watershed moment when New York City ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions
16	Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham more books like this by Agnes De Mille add to wishlist Martha Graham was a visionary genius, a choreographer and dancer who single-handedly invented a new language of dance. She was also a tempestuous and unrelenting taskmaster and a woman who would sacrifice everything - love, friendship, money - for the sake of her art. De Mille was Graham's friend from the 1920s until Graham's death in 1991. This ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.75! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Shapes of Change more books like this by Marcia B Siegel add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.19! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Basic Concepts in Modern Dance: A Creative Approach more books like this by Gay Cheney add to wishlist This book provides an introduction to modern dance and body movement techniques. It begins with an overview of the history of modern dance and proceeds to a discussion of basic body movement, improvisation, and choreography. A series of clearly photographed exercises enables the dancer to execute each movement properly and to learn to use the body ... see all copies from $3.78! new only from $11.90! \| first editions
19	Dancers more books like this by Philip Trager, Mark Morris (Photographer), Joan Ross Acocella (Photographer) add to wishlist In its devotion to movement and transformation, dance seems to be forever resisting depiction in two dimensions. Rising to this challenge, Trager has created one of the most exquisite "still" evocations of dance ever published. Here he captures the emotion of the work of today's top avant-garde choreographers. 81 tritone reproductions. see all copies from $20.00! first editions
20 view cover	Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics more books like this by Mark Franko add to wishlist "Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics" is a revisionary account of the evolution of "modern dance." Questioning the common notion that the dancing image reflects a relation of dance to culture, Mark Franko calls for a historicization of aesthetics that considers the often-ignored political dimension of expressive action. Employing an ... see all copies from $3.39! new only from $11.60! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Modern Educational Dance more books like this by Rudolf Von Laban add to wishlist see all copies from $9.94! new only from $35.98!
22	Unsung Genius: The Passion of Dancer-Choreographer Jack Cole more books like this by Glenn Meredith Loney add to wishlist see all copies from $28.89! first editions
23 view cover	Judson Dance Theater: Performative Traces more books like this by Ramsay Burt add to wishlist "The Judson Dance Theatre "explores the work and legacy of one of the most influential of all dance companies, which first performed at the Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan in the early 1960s. There, a group of choreographers and dancers--including future well-known artists Twyla Tharp, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Morris, Trisha Brown, ... see all copies from $30.68! new only from $30.68! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet: Theory and Technique more books like this by Cyril W Beaumont, Stanislas Idzikowski, Enrico Cecchetti (Preface by) add to wishlist Cecchetti (1850-1928) performed and taught in Russia and with Diaghilev's troupe. Assisted by of one of Cecchetti's star pupils, Stanislas Idzikowski, Cyril Beaumont codified Cecchetti's program for this book, which includes a numbered series of instructions for each exercise in addition to numerous illustrations. 109 black-and-white illustrations ... see all copies from $9.15! new only from $9.15! \| SVS
25 view cover	Dance Composition more books like this by Jacqueline M Smith-Autard add to wishlist Dance composition is an integral part of dance education as it is the discipline that turns ideas into dances. This book explores essential guidelines and contributes to a greater understanding of dance composition as a discipline. This edition includes additional chapters on improvisation and experimental procedures. The chapter on resource-based ... see all copies from $5.94! new only from $31.81!

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