Looking at contemporary dance : a guide for the internet age / by Strauss, Marc, Nadel, Myron Howard

Table of Contents: “…Sadler's Wells -- Contemporary dance presenters : Baryshnikov Arts Center ; AscenDance Project ; La MaMa Moves! …”
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Inside the Middle East. Contemporary dance

“…Contemporary dance…”
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Choreographing difference : the body and identity in contemporary dance / by Albright, Ann Cooper

Table of Contents: “…Mining the dancefield: feminist theory and contemporary dance -- Techno bodies: muscling with gender in contemporary dance -- Moving across difference: dance and disability -- Incalculable choreographies -- Dancing bodies and the stories they tell -- Embodying history: epic narrative and cultural identity in african-american dance.…”
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Live at Broadway Dance Center : contemporary dance and improvisation /

“…Contemporary dance and improvisation…”
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Harumi Terayama : discovering contemporary dance /

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Taichi Meets Motor Neuroscience An Inspiration for Contemporary Dance and Humanoid Robotics. by Morasso, Pietro

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Live at Broadway Dance Center : contemporary dance warm-up with Bruno Collinet /

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Tankograd

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Approches somatiques et apprentissage des gestes techniques artistiques. 2, La diversité des appuis dans la danse contemporaine au travers de la danse de Peter Goss

“…Diversity of supports in contemporary dance in the teaching of Peter Goss…”
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Staging Ghana : artistry and nationalism in state dance ensembles by Schauert, Paul W.

Table of Contents: “…"We are the originals" : a tale of two troupes and the birth of contemporary dance in Ghana --…”
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Conversations with contemporary masters of American modern dance : Talley Beatty

Table of Contents: “…Dance excerpts (all choreographed by Talley Beatty): Road of the Phoebe Snow / danced by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company -- Mourner's bench / danced by W. …”
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Dance masterclass. Episode 2, Jane Dudley

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Dance Circles : Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal. by Kringelbach, Helene Neveu

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the shifting faces of dance -- Cosmopolitan performing arts in twenty-first century Senegal -- A city across waters -- Drums, sand and persons -- Images of a mobile youth -- The politics of neo-traditional performance -- Senegalese 'contemporary dance' and global arts circuits -- Contemporary trajectories -- Movement, imagination and self-fashioning.…”
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Practicing dance : a somatic orientation

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Crack

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Black Dance by Brookes, Pawlet

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Pawlet Brookes -- THE TRIANGLE OF US -- Ronald K Brown -- AFRICAN DANCE IN AN ERA OF MISUNDERSTANDING (IN THE UK)- Chester Morrison -- CONTEMPORARY DANCE: MARRIAGE OF CULTURE AND FORM -- Kwesi Johnson -- NEW DIALOGUES: THE INTERSECTION OF DANCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- Thomas F DeFrantz -- TALAWA TECHNIQUE™: ANCIENT POWER -- MODERN USE -- Thomas Talawa Prestø -- THIS IS NOT BLACK -- Alesandra Seutin -- BLACK BODIES IN MOVEMENT: RE-PRESENTING AND RE-CLAIMING OURSELVES -- Gladys M Francis -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- REFERENCES -- AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES.…”
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Dance, politics & co-immunity

Table of Contents: “…The Politics of the Social; Notes on the Politicality of Contemporary Dance; The (Micro- )Politics of Social Choreography. …”
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New German dance studies

Table of Contents: “…The politics of East German dance / Marion Kant -- Warfare over realism : Tanztheater in East Germany, 1966-1989 / Franz Anton Cramer -- Moving against disappearance : East German bodies in contemporary choreography / Jens Richard Giersdorf -- Pina Bausch, Mary Wigman, and the aesthetic of "being moved" / Sabine Huschka -- Negotiating choreography, letter, and law in William Forsythe / Gerald Siegmund -- Engagements with the past in contemporary dance / Yvonne Hardt -- Lecture performance as contemporary dance / Maaike Bleeker -- Toward a theory of cultural translation in dance / Gabriele Klein.…”
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New German dance studies

Table of Contents: “…The politics of East German dance / Marion Kant -- Warfare over realism : Tanztheater in East Germany, 1966-1989 / Franz Anton Cramer -- Moving against disappearance : East German bodies in contemporary choreography / Jens Richard Giersdorf -- Pina Bausch, Mary Wigman, and the aesthetic of "being moved" / Sabine Huschka -- Negotiating choreography, letter, and law in William Forsythe / Gerald Siegmund -- Engagements with the past in contemporary dance / Yvonne Hardt -- Lecture performance as contemporary dance / Maaike Bleeker -- Toward a theory of cultural translation in dance / Gabriele Klein.…”
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Kaaro

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Dancing across the page : narrative and embodied ways of knowing by Barbour, Karen Nicole

Table of Contents: “…Being: Introductions -- Becoming: Feminist Choreography and Dance Research -- Dancing Across the Page: Representing Research Through Narrative -- Dreaming Yourself Anew: Choreographic Strategies in Women's Solo Contemporary Dance -- Knowing Differently, Living Creatively: Embodied Ways of Knowing -- Standing Strong: Pedagogical Approaches to Affirming Identity -- Improvising: Dance and Everyday Life -- Performing Identity: Tattoos, Dreadlocks and Feminism in Everyday Life -- Imaginings: Reaching for a Vision.…”
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Backstage economies : labour and masculinities in contemporary European dance by Njaradi, Dunja

Table of Contents: “…An Introduction to 'Contemporary Dance'; Chapter Two: Shattered and Sown Europe: Theoretical Questions and Methodological Approaches to Study Dance Under Globalization; Chapter Three: Gender and Masculinities in the World of Contemporary Professional Dance; Colour Plates; Chapter Four: Dance Performance as Labour and Production; Chapter Five: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Back cover.…”
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Backstage economies : labour and masculinities in contemporary European dance by Njaradi, Dunja

Table of Contents: “…An Introduction to 'Contemporary Dance'; Chapter Two: Shattered and Sown Europe: Theoretical Questions and Methodological Approaches to Study Dance Under Globalization; Chapter Three: Gender and Masculinities in the World of Contemporary Professional Dance; Colour Plates; Chapter Four: Dance Performance as Labour and Production; Chapter Five: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Back cover.…”
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Curating Live Arts : Global Perspectives on Theory and Practice. by Davida, Dena

Table of Contents: “…Part II -- Ethical ProposalsChapter 8 -- Dancing the Museum; Chapter 9 -- Curatorial Discourse and Equity: Tensions in Contemporary Dance Presenting in the United States; Practical Space -- Holy Motor-a Mechanical Metaphor Surrounding the Live Arts Curator; Chapter 10 -- Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal to the Contemporary Dance Field, and/or This Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced; Chapter 11 -- Email to a Curator: An Introduction to The Curators' Piece; Practical Space -- Curating Liveness; Chapter 12 -- Curation as a Form of Artistic Practice: Context as a New Work through UK-based Forest Fringe.…”
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Discographies : dance music, culture, and the politics of sound by Gilbert, Jeremy, 1971-

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Lesson starters. 1, Male students dance.

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Andrea Schermoly : life at N.D.T.

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Performing temporality in contemporary European dance unbecoming rhythms by Rutgeerts, Jonas

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Ancestral Voices by Brookes, Pawlet

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Dance On. Reed Hansen

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The evolving feminine ballet body

Table of Contents: “…Clark -- "Moving for pleasure" : the positive experience of ballet dancers moving into recreational contemporary dance / Carolyn Millar -- At the barre : ethical training for beginner ballet class / Jodie Vandekerkhove -- Ballet for all bodies? …”
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Dance On. Rae Kraus

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Freedom Koreografik. William Yong

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Fonderia 39

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Les songes de la horde

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Le défi Madrilène de José Carlos Martínez

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Multi(s)cénik. Parasite

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Asylum of Spoons.

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Freedom Koreografik. Jennifer Robichaud

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Korean Dance.

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