Best Books About Contemporary Dance: 40 Titles

The most widely held books on contemporary dance in libraries, from Open Library's catalog of 1,290 titles on the subject. Many have free borrowable digital editions.

Cover of Fifty contemporary choreographers

Fifty contemporary choreographers

Martha Bremser, Lorna Sanders · 2005

12 editions
Cover of Modern educational dance

Modern educational dance

Rudolf von Laban · 1948

11 editions
Cover of Pina Bausch

Pina Bausch

Royd Climenhaga · 2007

10 editions
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Routledge Dance Studies Reader

Jens Giersdorf, Yutian Wong · 2010

10 editions
Cover of The art of making dances

The art of making dances

Doris Humphrey · 1959

10 editions
Cover of Transcending Boundaries

Transcending Boundaries

Donald McKayle · 2001

9 editions
Cover of Merce Cunningham

Merce Cunningham

David Vaughan · 1998

9 editions
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Modern dance in Germany and the United States

Isa Partsch-Bergsohn · 1994

9 editions
Cover of The rise and fall and rise of modern dance

The rise and fall and rise of modern dance

Don McDonagh · 1970

9 editions
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Modern dance

Jane Winearls · 1958

9 editions
Cover of Modern dance forms in relation to the other modern arts

Modern dance forms in relation to the other modern arts

Louis Horst · 1961

8 editions
Cover of Mary Wigman

Mary Wigman

Mary Anne Santos Newhall · 2008

8 editions
Cover of Dancing modernism / performing politics

Dancing modernism / performing politics

Mark Franko · 1995

8 editions
Cover of Sketches of Western North Carolina

Sketches of Western North Carolina

C. L. Hunter · 1990

8 editions
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Using the Sky

Deborah Hay · 2015

8 editions
Cover of Anna Halprin

Anna Halprin

Libby Worth, Helen Poynor · 2004

8 editions
Cover of Isadora

Isadora

Fredrika Blair · 1985

8 editions
Cover of Footnotes

Footnotes

Elena Alexander · 1998

7 editions
Cover of Fifty contemporary choreographers

Fifty contemporary choreographers

Martha Bremser · 1999

7 editions
Cover of The art of making dances

The art of making dances

Doris Humphrey · 1959

7 editions
Cover of Merce Cunningham

Merce Cunningham

Roger Copeland · 2003

7 editions
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Alien Bodies

Ramsay Burt · 2002

7 editions
Cover of The dancer prepares

The dancer prepares

James Penrod, James W Penrod, Janice Gudde Plastino · 1875

7 editions · free to read
Cover of William Forsythe and the practice of choreography

William Forsythe and the practice of choreography

Steven Spier · 2011

7 editions
Cover of Anarchic dance

Anarchic dance

Billy Cowie · 2006

7 editions
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Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance

Bruce Baird, Rosemary Candelario · 2018

7 editions
Cover of Judson Dance Theater

Judson Dance Theater

Ramsay Burt · 2006

7 editions
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Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo

Sondra Fraleigh, Tamah Nakamura · 2006

7 editions
Cover of The modern dance

The modern dance

John Joseph Martin · 1933

7 editions
Cover of William Forsythe

William Forsythe

Senta Driver · 2000

6 editions
Cover of Isadora

Isadora

Maurice Lever · 1987

6 editions
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Modern dance in education

Joan Russell · 1958

6 editions
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Pina Bausch Sourcebook

Royd Climenhaga · 2012

6 editions
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Moving Relation

Gerko Egert · 2019

6 editions
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Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-score

Josefine Wikström · 2020

6 editions
Cover of DANCES OF THE SELF IN HEINRICH VON KLEIST, E.T.A. HOFFMANN, AND HEINRICH HEINE

DANCES OF THE SELF IN HEINRICH VON KLEIST, E.T.A. HOFFMANN, AND HEINRICH HEINE

Lucia Ruprecht, Lucia Ruprecht · 2006

6 editions
Cover of The dance theatre of Kurt Jooss

The dance theatre of Kurt Jooss

Suzanne Walther · 1993

6 editions
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Dance, Modernism, and Modernity

Ramsay Burt, Michael Huxley · 2019

6 editions
Cover of Aerial Dance

Aerial Dance

Jenefer Davies · 2017

6 editions
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Martha Graham

Alice Helpern · 2013

6 editions

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