From Blog Director Jill Randall:

One of my favorite activities each year is to compile this list of books about dance, movement, arts education, and somatics. I am a longtime dance book lover and collector. I also now have the privilege of writing book write-ups/short reviews for Dance Teacher Magazine each issue. 

I hope you find a title or two here to purchase for yourself or to add to your course's reading list. 

 

Arts Integration in Diverse K-5 Classrooms: Cultivating Literacy Skills and Conceptual Understanding by Liane Brouillette (Teachers College Press)

Bodies Alive: A dance journey across the Contact Improvisation landscape by Liesbeth de Jong and Sarah Guilleux (self-published)

Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History by Christopher J. Smith (University of Illinois Press)

Drawing the Surface: A Biography in Charts by Annie-B Parson (Wesleyan Press)

Hot Feet and Social Change: African Dance and Diaspora Communities edited by Kariamu Welsh, Esailama G.A. Diouf, and Yvonne Daniel (University of Illinois Press)

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema by Hannah Durkin (University of Illinois Press)

Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life by Twyla Tharp (Simon & Shuster)

Making Dances That Matter: Resources for Community Creativity by Anna Halprin (Wesleyan University Press)

Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary by Carrie Noland (University of Chicago Press)

Mindfulness for Dancers by Corinne Haas (self-published)

Out Loud: A Memoir by Mark Morris and Wesley Stace (Penguin Press)

Physics & Dance by Emily Coates and Sarah Demers (Yale University Press)

(Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives edited by Karen Barbour, Vicky Hunter, and Melanie Kloetzel (Intellect Ltd)

The Disintegration of the Critic by Jill Johnston (Sternberg Press)

The Style of Movement: Fashion & Dance by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory (Rizzoli)

Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion by Susan Leigh Foster (Oxford University Press)

 

And, a few 2018 titles you might have missed:

Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance by Sondra Fraleigh (University of Illinois Press)

Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Towards an Inclusive Somatics by Don Hanlon Johnson (North Atlantic Books) 

How to Land: Finding Stable Ground in an Unstable World by Ann Cooper Albright (Oxford University Press)

Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions edited by Christine Caldwell and Lucia Bennett Leighton (North Atlantic Books)

The Profitable Artist by New York Foundation for the Arts (Allworth)

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