As you begin shopping this season, here are some book titles that might pique your interest:

Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness, and Engagement – Pil Hanson and Darcey Callison, Editors

Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance – Katherine Profeta

Pina Bausch Backstage (Photographs) - Salomon Bausch

Moving Still (Photographs) – Lois Greenfield

Curtains? The Future of Art in America - Michael M. Kaiser

Using the Sky: A Dance – Deborah Hay

Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance – Victoria Hunter

Dance Education around the World: Perspectives on Dance, Young People, and Change – Charlotte Svendler Nielsen and Stephanie Burridge, Editors; foreword by Sir Ken Robinson 

Creative Dance for All Ages, 2nd Edition – Anne Green Gilbert

Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch – Sondra Fraleigh

Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming – Kimerer L. LaMothe

Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance – Anthea Kraut

American Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk - Megan Pugh

Multiplicity, Embodiment, and the Contemporary Dancer: Moving Identitites – Jennifer Roche

The Phenomenology of Dance (50th Anniversary Edition) - Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

And children's dance books too:

My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey - by Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James E. Ransome 

Firebird – by Misty Copeland and illustrator Christopher Myers

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