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Criticism, Theory and History
 The Black Dancing Body
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
What is the essence of "black" dance in America, and what is the black dancing body? To answer these questions, Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts an unorthadox history by mapping the geography of the black dancing body and showing its central place in our culture. Since race and color are usually taboo subjects in the dance world, what the author finds our is sure to cause controversy and turn heads. The Black Dancing Body is a key to the ineffable rhythms and movement of dance in America. Softcover, 332 pp. $30.95.
 Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
Joan Acocella
From one of our most admired cultural critics, thirty-one essays on some of the most influencial artists of our time - writers, dancers, choreographers, sculptors - and two saints of all time, Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene. What unites the book is Acocella's interest in the making of art and in the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires. Softcover, 524 pp. $18.95.
 Revealing Dance
Max Wyman
A collection of Wyman's writing from the past 30 years including a chapter on Kimberly Glasco vs. The National Ballet of Canada. Softcover, 320 pp. $24.95.
 Ballet and Modern Dance
Second Edition
Susan Au
Susan Au's text covers the great performers and performances of the past, as well as exploring, in detail, the dance world of today. A wonderful resource for anyone interested in dance. Softcover, 224 pp. $22.99.
 Yes? No! Maybe...
Seductive Ambiguity in Dance
Emilyn Claid
This is a book about performing and watching dance. Using a unique combination
of historical, academic and autobiographical voices, it covers 50 years of British
dance, from Margot Fonteyn in the 1950s to innovative contemporary practitioners
such as Wendy Houstoun, Nigel Charnock, Lloyd Newson, Javier de Frutos and Fin
Walker. Softcover, 245 pp. $52.50.
 Writing in the Dark: Dancing in the New Yorker
Arlene Croce
"Theoretically, I am ready to go to anything -- once. If it moves,
I'm interested; if it moves to music, I'm in love." . Entertaining,
intelligent, and always passionate, Arlene Croce wrote The New
Yorker's dancing column from 1973 until 1998. Her most
significant and provocative writings, collected here, reverberate with
consequence and controversy for the state of the art today. Softcover,
768 pp. $35.95.
 Dance & The Lived Body
Sondra Horton Fraleigh
Through her consciousness of dance as an art, her experience as a dancer,
and phenomenalogical literature on the lived body, the author explores
the meaning of
dance as an existential art. Softcover, 284 pp. $29.95.
 The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Using interviews with black, white, and brown dance practitioners as well as
performance analysis and personal recollections of her own life in the world
of dance, Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts the endeavors, ordeals and triumphs
of "black" dance and dancers by exposing perceptions, images, and assumptions,
past and present.
Hardcover, 332 pp. $44.95.
 The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
Helen Thomas
This major new book by Helen Thomas makes the connections
between burgeoning interest in the body in social and cultural
analysis and a variety of dance forms and practices. It uses
dance as a means of reflecting on the possibilities and limitations
associated with the ways in which the body has been conceptualised
in social and cultural theory. At the same time, the book offers a rich
resource in case material.
Softcover, 262 pp. $44.95.
 Sleeping Beauty
Tim Scholl
Drawing on a wide range of sources, most of which have never appeared in English,
Tim Scholl describes the artistic controversies surrounding the Maryinsky Ballet
and Theater's famous remounting of Sleeping Beauty in 1999. This fascinating
slice of cultural history shows that the revival brought to the surface a collision
of imperial, Soviet, official, and popular histories that mirrored many of the
rifts felt more generally in post-Soviet society. Hardcover, 242 pp. $52.50.
 Something in the Way She Moves: Dancing Women from Salome to Madonna
Wendy Buonaventura
From the earliest times, dance has been inextricably linked with women's sensuality.
Now, for the first time, Wendy Buonaventura describes in rich, lush prose the
world of dance through women's eyes. She moves gracefully across a kaleidoscope
of cultures, highlighting the contributions of several indelible women. This
is a book for lovers of dance and lovers of history alike, an engrossing introduction
to a little known side of a culture legacy. Softcover, 312 pp. $40.00.
 Rethinking Dance History: A Reader
Alexandra Carter
Featuring work by some of the major voices in dance writing and discourse, Rethinking
Dance History will prove invaluable for both scholars and practioners, and
a source of interest for anyone who is fascinated by dance's rich and multi-layered
history. By taking a fresh approach to the study of history in general, Alexandra
Carter offers new perspectives on improtant periods in dance history and seeks
to
address some gaps and silences within that history. Softcover, 196 pp. $44.95.
 No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century
Nancy Reynolds and Martin McCormack
No Fixed Points surveys a century of dramatic developments in ballet,
modern dance, and avant-garde dance for stage and screen in Europe and North
America. With illuminating detail, more than 200 fascinating illustrations,
and wide-ranging insights, this is the definitive treatise on the cultural
shifts and aesthetic transformations that characterized dance in the twentieth
century. Hardcover, 907 pp. $78.00.
 Envisioning Dance On Film and Video
Judy Mitoma
Collaboration between filmmakers and dance makers began with the dawn of cinema,
and today virtually everyone working in dance uses media. Envisioning Dance
on
Film and Video provides personal accounts by professionals who have set the
standard for this cross-fertilization of ideas and disciplines. A unique and
authoritative
treatise on the subject. Softcover, 336 pp. $59.95.
 New and Curious School of Theatrical Dancing
Gregorio Lambanzi
The classic illustrated treatise on Commedia dell'Arte Performance. Each
of the 101 illustrations (reproductions of the original engravings by
Johann George Puschner) are juxtaposed with a short passage of musical
accompaniment and a hand-lettered German caption. Softcover, 137 pp.
$19.95.
 Courtly
Dance of the Renaissance
Fabritio Caroso
One of the best-known guides to courtly dance of the Renaissance was
the Nobilta di Dame (1600), an Italian dance manual offering a rich
repertory of aristocratic social dance, including the music and fully
described choreography for forty-nine dances. It is presented here in
an expertly translated English edition by Julia Sutton, with music transcribed
and edited by F. Marian Walker. Softcover, 408 pp., $24.95.
 Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
This unique study focuses on the social, racial and artistic climate
for African American performers working during the swing era. Winner
of the 2001 Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Scholarly
Dance Publication. Softcover, $38.95.
 Moving History/Dancing
Cultures: A Dance History Reader
Ann Dils & Ann Cooper Albright
A large format "reader" divided into four thematic sections:
Thinking About Dance History -- Theories and Practices; World Dance Traditions;
America Dancing; Contemporary Dance -- Global Contexts. This is an excellent
addition to dance ethnography/appreciation scholorship. $34.95.
 Spaces of the Mind: Isamu Noguchi's Dance Designs
Robert Tracy
This book celebrates Noguchi's contributions to dance with photographs
from 37 of his set designs. Foe dance lovers and art lovers -- this
is a book to treasure. 212 pp. $65.95; softcover pp. $43.50.
Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, "Race" and Nation in Early Modern Dance
Ramsay Burt
This book is a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France and
the United States during the 1920's and 1930's. Ranging across ballet,
modern dance, and dance in the cinema and revue, Burt looks at the work
of European, African-American and white American artists. 222 pp. $32.99.
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