Life as a Modern Dancer

Category: Books

  • New Dance Books in 2019

    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…

  • New Dance Books in 2018

    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…

  • Book Feature: Queer Dance

    By Clare Croft I created Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings because I need to know, to prove, and to remind myself that queer people—and queer people of all kinds—dance. As a lesbian, being in dance has not always been easy, even though I deeply love dancing. Especially in institutional settings, dance can be a place where…

  • 2017 in Review: New Books on Dance

    From Blog Director Jill Randall: For anyone who knows me and works with me, it is clear that I am a huge book lover. I love reading books, discussing books, and sharing books. Today, here is my current list of dance books published in 2017. The titles in blue are ones that have been featured…

  • New Book about Katherine Dunham

    By Joanna Dee Das, author of Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora (Oxford 2017) What inspired me to write this book? And who should read it? I never met Katherine Dunham, but she shaped the course of my life. At age nine, I began to take jazz dance at the Center of Creative Arts…

  • New Dance Books in 2017 – The Growing List

    From Blog Director Jill Randall: For anyone who knows me and works with me, it is clear that I am a huge book lover. I love reading books, discussing books, and sharing books. Today, here is my current list of dance books published in 2017. The titles in blue are ones that have been featured…

  • More about A Life in Dance: A Practical Guide (New Book)

    From Blog Director Jill Randall: I enjoyed Rebecca Stenn's recent post on the blog about her new book A Life in Dance: A Practical Guide. I read the piece and then quickly purchased my own copy on amazon.com. It was my "vacation read" last week, and I loved sitting down and experiencing it through my…

  • Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice

    New Book Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice Blog Post By Nyama McCarthy-Brown, Author  —– Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice, is the go-to resource for dance educators and dancers who want to explore issues of culture, race, gender,…

  • A Life in Dance: A Practical Guide (by Rebecca Stenn and Fran Kirmser)

    Post by Rebecca Stenn A Life In Dance: A Practical Guide is a book written with the intent to broaden a dance artist’s knowledge of the possibilities available to them — providing inspiring stories of dancers both known and unknown, who have trodden multiple and varied paths. The first half of the book delivers enlightening…

  • Artist Profile #152: Jan Erkert (Champaign, IL)

    Hometown: Detroit, Michigan Current city: Champaign, Illinois Age: 65 College and degree: University of Utah, BFA Website: http://www.dance.uiuc.edu/ How you pay the bills: Head of the Dance, University of Illinois All of the dance hats you wear: Dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer, administrative head (and body).  ——————————————- Jan Erkert and Dancers. Photo by William Frederking. Describe your dance life in your….…