One of my favorite posts each year is this one – a list of books on dance, arts education, arts administration, and somatics. Please add a Comment if there are titles missing here. I am always on the lookout, and got to read many of the titles below throughout the year.

As much as I could, the hyperlinks here go to bookshop.org or to a publisher.

I hope you find a title or two you want to explore in the new year!

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• Antiracism in Ballet Teaching, edited by Kate Mattingly and Iyun Ashani Harrison 
• The Art of Dance Composition: Writing the Body by Jenifer Davies
• The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky’s Life in Ballet by Marina Harss
• Capoeira Connections by Katya Wesolowski (through open access, this book can be enjoyed online free of charge)
• The Color of Dance: A Celebration of Diversity and Inclusion in the World of Ballet by TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian
• Dance Works: Stories of Creative Collaboration by Allison Orr
• Dancing and Belonging: Implicit Bias and Inclusion in Dance Education by Crystal U. Davis
• Dance and Ethics: Moving Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Dance Culture by Naomi M. Jackson (this is a 2022 title, but missed listing it last year)
• Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation by Jacqueline Shea Murphy
• Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
• Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language: Thinking in Micromovement by Megan Nicely 
• Making Change: Teaching Artists and Their Role in Shaping a Better World by Eric Booth
• Managing Arts Organizations by David Andrew Snider
• Managing the Arts in Rural Areas by David Andrew Snider
• Milestones in Dance in the USA edited by Elizabeth McPherson
• Misty Copeland by Henry Leutwyler
• Movement at the Still Point by Mark Mann
• The Production Manager’s Toolkit, Second Edition by Cary Gillett and Jay Sheehan
• Roots and Wings: Virginia Tanner's Dance Life and Legacy by Mary-Elizabeth Manley
• Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity by Kate Mattingly
• Somatics in Dance, Ecology, and Ethics: The Flowing Live Present by Sondra Fraleigh
• Somatic Movement Dance Therapy: The Healing Art of Self-regulation and Co-regulation by Amanda Williamson

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Related posts:
New Dance Books in 2022
New Dance Books in 2021