From Blog Director Jill Randall:
I love dance books so much, and I love the seeking and searching each year for new additions to our studies and our collections. Please find my compiled list for 2018 here, and please leave a comment below if I missed a title or two.
Pina Bausch – The Biography - by Marion Meyer and translator Penny Black
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir - by Halifu Osumare
What Makes That Black?: The African American Aesthetic in American Expressive Culture - by Luana
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done - by Ana Janevski, Thomas Lax, and Giampaolo Bianconi et al
Gravity – by Steve Paxton
William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects - by Louise Neri, Eva Respini, Daniel Birnbaum, Susan Foster, and Rebecca Groves
Dancing Deeper Still: The Practice of Contact Improvisation - by Martin Keogh
Questioning Contact Improvisation - by Keith Hennessy
Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet – by Laura Jacobs
And Then We Danced: A Voyage into the Groove – by Henry Alford
Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication - edited by Mindy Aloff
Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise - by James Steichen
Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance - by Wendy Lesser
Dance Me a Song: Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly, and the American Film Musical - by Beth Genné
Arts Leadership: Creating Sustainable Arts Organizations – by Kenneth Foster
The Moving Mentoring Playbook – by Ashley Thorndike-Youssef
Brain-Compatible Dance Education, 2nd Edition – by Anne Green Gilbert
Born to Dance: Celebrating the Wonder of Childhood – by Jordan Matter
Breathing for Peak Performance: Functional Exercises for Dance, Yoga, and Pilates - by Eric Franklin
I also wanted to give a shout out to the magazine DIY Dancer, and its second issue. Purchase it here.
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Related posts:
Book Feature: Queer Dance by Clare Croft
2017 in Review: New Books on Dance
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