Booklist

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An unorganized and incomplete list of some great writing on dance, dance things, and things that dance. Our own little library currently lives in various bookshelves, basements and barns. There are tons more titles and articles in the same general family as this stuff. * = lily faves

* Adversaries of Dance, from puritans to present, Anne Louise Wagner

The black dancing body: A geography from coon to cool, Brenda Dixon gottschild

Taking root to fly: Articles on functional anatomy, Irene dowd

Atlas of human anatomy for the artist, Stephen rogers peck

*Stompin the Blues, Albert Murray

*Jookin: The Rise of Social Dance Forms in Afro-American Culture, Katrina Hazzard Gordon

Steppin on the Blues: The visible rhythms of afro-american dance, Jacqui Malone

Performance studies, Richard schechner

Black Dance: from 1619 to today, Lynne Fauly Emery

envisioning dance on film and video
editor: judy mitoma

Dance on screen  Genres and media from hollywood to experimental art , Sherril dodds

The art of making dances, Doris humphrey

everynight life culture and dance in latin/o America , celeste fraser Delgado and jose esteban Munoz, editors.

jazz dance: the story of american vernacular dance, marhsall & jean stearns

blues people: negro music in white america, leroy jones.

flash of the spirit, robert farris thompson

money for nothing a history of the music video from the beatles to the white stripes, saul Austerlitz

*meaning in motion  new cultural studies of dance, jane c. desmond editor

introducing lyotard art and politics, bill readings

Black Pearls blues queens of the 1920s, Daphne Duval Harrison

Alien Bodies Representations of modernity, ‘race’ and nation in early modern dance, Ramsay Burt

Dancing from past to present  Nation, culture, identities, Theresa jill buckland. editor

society and the dance, paul spencer editor

dance, sex and gender signs of identity, dominance, defiance, and desire, Judith lynne hanna

the post modern explained, jean-francois lyotard

*power michel Foucault

*choreographing difference the body and identity in contemporary dance, ann cooper Albright

the thinking body, mabel e. todd

next week, swan lake reflections on dance and dances, Selma Jeanne cohen

the history of sexuality an introduction, volume I, michel Foucault

dance till tomorrow  naoki yamamoto

*what is dance? Readings in theory and criticism, Edited by roger Copeland and marshall cohen

discipline & punish  the birth of the prison, michel Foucault

a history of video art the development of form and function, chris meigh-andrews

the performance studies reader, edited by henry bial

*Anthropology and the dance Ten lectures, Drid Williams

*marmalade me, jill Johnston

social choreography ideology as performance in dance and everyday movement, Andrew Hewitt

* corporealities  dancing knowledge, culture and power, edited by susan leigh foster

making video dance  a step-by-step guide to creating dance for the screen, Katrina McPherson

pre-classic dance forms, louis horst
1937, 1940, 1968 by the dance observer

*Choreography and the specific image Nineteen essays and a workbook, Daniel nagrin

Reading dance A gathering of memoirs, reportage, criticism, profiles, interviews, profiles, interviews and some uncategorizable extras, Edited by Robert gottlieb

*Designing gestural interfaces, Dan saffer

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Dance for camera
95 minutes color
first run features

Dance for camera 2
50 minutes color
first run features