The call of the jitterbug

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Dancing in the 20th century

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Ring shout, wheel about : the racial politics of music and dance in North American slavery by Thompson, Katrina Dyonne

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Ring shout, wheel about : the racial politics of music and dance in North American slavery by Thompson, Katrina Dyonne

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Women's work : making dance in Europe before 1800

Table of Contents: “…The doubly invisible : Dance in history, women in dance history /…”
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We still here : hip hop north of the 49th parallel

Table of Contents: “…Following the thread : Toronto's place in hip hop dance histories /…”
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Directing the dance legacy of Doris Humphrey : the creative impulse of reconstruction by Main, Lesley

“…Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)…”
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Dancing spirit, love, and war : performing the translocal realities of contemporary Fiji by Kelly, Evadne

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Dramaturgy in motion : at work on dance and movement performance by Profeta, Katherine

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The futures of dance studies

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The body of the people : East German dance since 1945 by Giersdorf, Jens Richard

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The body of the people : East German dance since 1945 by Giersdorf, Jens Richard

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Urban Bush Women : twenty years of African American dance theater, community engagement, and working it out by George-Graves, Nadine

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Foundation : b-boys, b-girls, and hip-hop culture in New York by Schloss, Joseph Glenn

Table of Contents: “…"The original essence of the dance" : history, community, and classic b-boy records -- "Getting your foundation" : pedagogy -- "We have to be exaggerated" : aesthetics -- "In the cypher" : b-boy spaces -- "I hate b-boys-- that's why I break" : battling -- From rocking to b-boying : history and mystery.…”
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Body knowledge : performance, intermediality, and American entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century by Simonson, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Singing intermediality : Darktown, downtown -- Choreographing Salome : re-creating the female body -- Acting ancient : Hellenism, pageantry, and American modernity -- Dancing music : Isadora Duncan and Wagnerism in the American imagination -- Dancing pictures : Rita Sacchetto's Tanzbilder -- Moving images : Adeline Genée and Bessie Clayton's danced histories -- Filming opera : Anna Pavlova and The dumb girl of Portici -- Finale: Performing intermediality in The passing show of 1913.…”
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Dancetime! Social Dance Vol 1: 15th-19th Centuries: Research section of the video showing original sources for the dance steps

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Teaching dance studies

Table of Contents: “…; 3 From Improvisation to Choreography: The Critical Bridge; 4 Wild Speculations and Simple Thoughts: Teaching Music to Dancers; 5 Teaching Dance on Film and Film Dance; 6 Teaching Dance History: A Querying Stance as Millennial Lens; 7 On Teaching Dance Criticism; 8 The Anthropology of Dance: Textural, Theoretical, and Experiential Ways of Knowing; 9 Standing Aside and Making Space: Mentoring Student Choreographers; 10 Kinesiology and Injury Prevention; 11 Labanotation.…”
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Dance studies in China : selected writings from the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy

Table of Contents: “…"Dance education should focus on people and society" : Interview with the President of Beijing Dance Academy, Professor Guo Lei / Guo Lei, translated by Cai Shuo -- "The mission of artists is to lead the development of human culture in the future" : Interview with Shen Wei / Shen Wei and Zhang Yanjie, translated by Cai Shuo -- The formation and direction of a Chinese school of dance studies / Deng Youling, translated by Cai Shuo -- Interpretation and reproduction of De Shou Gong Dance Notation from the Song Dynasty / Liu Qingyi, translated by Cai Shuo -- From "Lady Gongsun" to "Chinese dama" : Square dance as the latest form in Chinese dance history / Hu Yifeng, translated by Zhao Yuting -- The interaction, integration and synthesis of square dance and traditional dance in the process of urbanization in China / Huang Jiying, translated by Cai Shuo -- Structure and function of the self-organized folk dance "Flower-Drum Group" of the Yi people in Yunnan Province / Huang Longguang, translated by Cai Shuo -- Artistic behaviour and aesthetic exploration in Western experimental screen dance / Yuan Yi, translated by Zhao Yuting -- Reflections on the aesthetic dimension and its structural form in contemporary dance creation in China / Zhang Ping, translated by Zhao Yuting -- The reconstruction and expansion of the "five methods" of xiqu in Chinese classical dance Shenyun / Wang Xi, translated by Cai Shuo -- Exploring and realizing the function of dance in the context of "healthy China" / Wen Rou, translated by Zhao Yuting.…”
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Arthur & Aileen

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Dans in België 1890-1940 by Vos, Staf

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Jazz for kids. Volume 2

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Giselle directed by Mans Reutersward ; choreographed by Mats Ek, performed by Anna Laguna, Luc Bouy, Yvan Auzley, Vanessa McIntosh, Lena Wennergren, Cullberg Ballet & Monte Carlo O...

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Valéry Gergiev & Le Sacre Du Printemps by Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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José Limón and La Malinche : the dancer and the dance

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I want to be ready : improvised dance as a practice of freedom by Goldman, Danielle

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Hitler's dancers : German modern dance and the Third Reich by Karina, Lilian, Kant, Marion

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Keeping Together in Time : Dance and Drill in Human History. by McNeill, William H.

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Dance Matters. by Chakravorty, Pallabi

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