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• Dance Books  is an English online store that provides a huge range of books, DVDs, CDs, CD-ROMs and music sheets. If you have not found the material you need in traditional bookstores, it’s worth checking it out here.

• The latest ballet books releases can be easily purchased through the Ballet Bookstore website. The site is updated regularly and the publications have been classed in the following categories: Newbooks, Choreographers, Dancers, Fiction, History, Miscellaneous, Out of print, Photography, Prints, Technique and DVD. It is worth checking it out!

• The used books search website offers a wide range of second hand books on dance. Please click here to access their site.

• Useful Links
• ABAC
• AddAll
• Alibris
• Americana Exchange
• Amazon
• Antiqbooks
• Antiquarian Bookseller’s Association of America
• ANZAAB
• Archives Hub
• arlis.net
• Biblio Quest International
• Bibliophile Bookbase
• Bibsys
• Bookfinder.com
• Books and Books Collecting
• Bookwire Beta
• Books, Videos, DVDs, Music, Tapes and CDs
• Copac
• Cornucopia
• Cross-cultural Dance Resources
• Dartington Archive, Dartington Hall Trust, Devon
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Duke University Libraries
• Find-a-book.com
• GVK
• IOBA
• InforM25
• Lancaster University
• Library of Congress
• Libdex
• Library Archives Canada
• LINDA
• National Library of Sweden
• New York Public Library
• Royal Academy of Dance – The Philip Richardson Library
• Royal Opera House Shop
• Salser Edina
• Solo
• The British Library
• Foyles – Ballet
• Foyles – Contemporary Dance
• International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB)
• Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies
• Laban Library and Archive Collection, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
• London Review of Books
• King`s College London
• MASC 25
• Ohio Link Online Catalogue
• Resources for Booksellers and Book Collectors
• Roehampton University
• Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V.|
• The Albert Sloman Library – University of Essex
• The Archive of the National Resource Centre for Dance
• The Dance Notation Bureau, New York
• The European Library
• The John Hodgson Collection, Leeds University Library
• The John Rylands University Library – University of Manchester
• The National Archives
• Second Hand 4 You
• University of Surrey
• UCLAN
• UEA
• University of Birmingham Library
• University of Cambridge
• University of Leeds
• University of Louven
• University of Hull
• University of Surrey Individuals’ Archives
• University of Wolverhampton Library
• University of York Library
• UKBookWord.com
• Used Book Central
• Stanford University
• Senate House Libraries – University of London
• Sheffield Hallam University
• V&A Museum – material relating to Rudolf Laban and the Natural Movement Archive
• Theatre Information Group
• Waterstone’s Marketplace
• WhSmith
• Wordcat
• York St John University
• Zvab.com

Images of Dance & Arts Scrapbook recommends:

• Academic Reading

• A Sense of Dance – 2nd Edition: Exploring Your Movement Potential [Paperback] Constance Schrader (Author)

• Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, Race and Nation in Early Modern Dance [Paperback] Ramsay Burt (Author)

• An Introduction to Community Dance Practice [Paperback] Diane Amans (Author)

• Art of Appreciation (The appreciation of the arts) [Illustrated] [Hardcover] Harold Osborne (Author) - Image not available.

• Body Space Image : Notes Toward Improvision and Performance [Paperback] Miranda Tufnell (Author), Chris Crickmay (Author), David Vaughan (Author)

• Black Dance: From 1619 to Today [Paperback] Lynne Fauley Emery (Author)

• Blood Memory: An Autobiography [Paperback] Martha Graham (Author)

• Blood, Sweat & Theory: Research Through Practice in Performance (Music + Performing Arts) [Paperback] John Freeman (Author)

• Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes [Hardcover] Judith Mackrell (Author)

• Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance [Paperback] Ann Cooper Albright (Author)

• Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance [Paperback] Susan Leigh Foster (Author)

• Choreographing History (Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative) [Paperback] Susan Leigh Foster (Editor)

• Choreography and Narrative: Ballet’s Staging of Story and Desire [Paperback] Susan Leigh Foster (Author)

• Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader [Paperback] Jo Butterworth (Editor), Liesbeth Wildschut (Editor)

• Corporealities: Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power [Paperback] Susan Foster (Editor)

• Dance Analysis: Theory and Practice [Paperback] Janet Adshead (Author)

• Dance and Lived Body [Paperback] Sondra Horton Fraleigh (Author)

• Dance and the Performative: A Choreological Perspective – Laban and Beyond [Import] [Paperback] Valerie Preston-Dunlop (Author), Ana Sanchez-Colberg (Author), Sarah Rubidge (Author)

• Dance Composition: A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making (Performance Books) [Paperback] Jacqueline M. Smith-Autard (Author)

• Dance Discourses: Keywords in Dance Research [Paperback] Susanne Franco (Editor), Marina Nordera (Editor)

• Dance (First Action Skills) [Hardcover] Judith Mackrell (Author), Linda G. Rich (Illustrator)

• Dance, Gender and Culture [Paperback] Helen Thomas (Editor)

The Routledge Dance Studies

• Dance Instruction: Science Applied to the Art of Movement [Paperback] Judith Anne Gray (Author) - Image not available.

• Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance [Paperback] Janet Lynn Roseman (Author)

• Dance, Modernity and Culture: Explorations in the Sociology of Dance [Paperback] Helen Thomas (Author)

• Dance, Space and Subjectivity [Paperback] Valerie A. Briginshaw (Author)

• Dancers Talking Dance: Critical Evaluation in the Choreography Class [Paperback] Larry Lavender (Author)

• Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design [Hardcover] Gayle Kassing (Author), Danielle M. Jay (Author)

• Dances That Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull [Paperback] Susan Leigh Foster (Author)

• Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities On And Off The Stage (Studies in Dance History) [Paperback] Jane C. Desmond (Author)

• Dancing Identity: Metaphysics In Motion [Hardcover] Sondra Horton Fraleigh (Author)

• Dancing Longer, Dancing Stronger: A Dancer’s Guide to Improving Technique and Preventing Injury [Paperback] Andrea Watkins (Author), Priscilla Clarkson (Author)

• Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics [Paperback] Mark Franko (Author)

• Dancing Texts: Intertexuality in Interpretation [Paperback] Janet Adshead-Lansdale (Author, Editor)

• Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage [Paperback] Sally Banes (Author)

• Decentring Dancing Texts: The Challenge of Interpreting Dances [Hardcover] Janet Lansdale (Editor)

• Women and Dance: Sylphs and Sirens [Paperback] Christy Adair (Author), Janet Wolff (Foreword)

• Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism [Paperback] Sally Banes (Author)

• Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts [Paperback] Brenda D. Gottschild (Author)

• Ear Training for the Body: A Dancer’s Guide to Music [Paperback] Katherine Teck (Author)

• Europe Dancing: Perspectives on Theatre, Dance, and Cultural Identity [Paperback] Andree Grau (Editor), Stephanie Jordan (Editor)

• Every Little Movement: Book About Francois Delsarte [Paperback] Ted Shawn (Author)

• Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement [Hardcover] Andre Lepecki (Author)

• Fifty Contemporary Choreographers (Routledge Key Guides) [Paperback] Martha Bremser (Editor), Lorna Sanders (Editor)

• Gower Champion: Dance and American Musical Theatre (Contributions in Drama & Theatre Studies) [Hardcover] Marge Champion (Foreword), David Payne-Carter (Author), Brooks McNamara (Editor), Steve Nelson (Editor)

• Harnessing the Wind: the Art of Teaching Modern Dance [Paperback] Jan Erkert (Author)

• Inside Ballet Technique: Separating Anatomical Fact from Fiction in the Ballet Class [Paperback] Valerie Grieg (Author)

• Judson Dance Theater [Paperback] Ramsay Burt (Author)

• Katherine Dunham: Dancing a Life [Hardcover] Joyce Aschenbrennar (Author)

• Looking at Dances: Choreological Perspective on Choreography [Import] [Paperback] Valerie Preston-Dunlop (Author), A. Geary (Illustrator)

• Making an Entrance: Theory and Practice for Disabled and Non-Disabled Dancers [Paperback] Adam Benjamin (Author)

• Martha Graham: The Evolution of Her Dance Theory and Training [Paperback] Marian Horosko (Author)

• Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance (Post-Contemporary Interventions) [Paperback] Jane C. Desmond (Author)

• Merce Cunningham: Dancing in Space and Time : Essays 1944-1992 [Paperback] Jack Anderson (Author), Richard Kostelanetz (Editor)

• Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey [Paperback] Julia L. Foulkes (Author)

• Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion [Paperback] Susan Manning (Author)

• Modern Dance Terminology: The ABC’s of Modern Dance as Defined by Its Originators [Paperback] Paul Love (Author)

• Moment of Movement [Paperback] Lynne Anne Blom (Author)

• Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader [Paperback] Ann Dils (Editor), Ann Cooper Albright (Editor)

• Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance [Paperback] Gay Morris (Editor)

• My Life [Paperback] Isadora Duncan (Author)

• New Dance: Writings on Modern Dance [Hardcover] Charles Humphrey Woodford (Compiler)

• No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century [Hardcover] Nancy Reynolds (Author)

• Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on dance and Performance Theory [Paperback] Andre Lepecki (Editor)

• Orientalism, Orientation, and the Nomadic Work of Pina Bausch (Studien Zum Theater, Film Und Fernsehen) [Paperback] Deirdre Mulrooney (Author) - Image not available.

• Out of Line: Story of British New Dance [Paperback] Judith Mackrell (Author)

• Performance Analysis: An Introductory Coursebook [Paperback] Colin Counsell (Editor), Laurie Wolf (Editor)

• Physics and the Art of Dance: Understanding Movement [Paperback] Kenneth Laws (Author), Arleen Sugano (Contributor)

• Pina Bausch (Routledge Performance Practitioners) [Paperback] Royd Climenhaga (Author)

• Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Dance Theater: The Aesthetics of Repetition and Transformation [Hardcover] Ciane Fernandes (Author) - Images not available.

• Reading Dance [Hardcover] Judith Mackrell (Author)

• Reformers and Visionaries: Americanization of the Art of Dance [Hardcover] Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter (Author) - Images not available.

• Research Methods in Theatre and Performance (Research Methods for the Arts and the Humanities) [Paperback] Baz Kershaw (Editor), Helen Nicholson (Editor)

• Reading Dance: A Gathering of Memoirs, Reportage, Criticism, Profiles, Interviews, and Some Uncategorizable Extras [Hardcover] Robert Gottlieb (Author)

• Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance [Paperback] Susan Leigh Foster (Author)

• Rethinking Dance History: A Reader [Paperback] Alexandra Carter (Author)

• Rhythm, Music and Education [Paperback] Emile Jaques Dalcroze (Author)              

• Rhythmic Subjects: Use of Energy in the Dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham [Paperback] Dee Reynolds (Author)

• Science of Dance Training [Hardcover] Priscilla M Clarkson (Editor), Margaret Skrinar (Editor)

• Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture (New Directions in Anthropological Writing) [Paperback] Cynthia J. Novack (Author)

• Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement (Post-Contemporary Interventions) [Paperback] Andrew Hewitt (Author)

• Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader [Paperback] Ann Cooper Albright (Editor), David Gere (Editor)

• Teaching Dance: The Spectrum of Styles [Paperback] Elizabeth Gibbons (Author)

• Teaching Dance Studies: A University Primer [Paperback] Judith Chazin-Bennahum (Editor)

• Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance) [Paperback] Gail Grant (Author)

• The Anthropology of Dance [Paperback] Anya Peterson Royce (Author)

• The Art of Dance in Education, Second Edition [Paperback] Jacqueline M. Smith-Autard (Author)

• The Art of Teaching Dance Technique [Paperback] Joan Schlaich (Author), Betty Dupont (Author)

• The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (John Hope Franklin Center Book) [Paperback]

• The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory [Paperback] Helen Thomas (Author)

• The Body Is a Clear Place and Other Statements on Dance [Paperback] Erick Hawkins (Author)

• The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet: Theory and Technique [Paperback] Cyril W. Beaumont (Author), Stanislas Idzikowski (Author)

• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life [Paperback] Twyla Tharp (Author), Mark Reiter (Contributor)

• The Dancer and the Dance [Paperback] Merce Cunningham (Author), Jacqueline Lesschaeve (Author)

• The Intercultural Performance Reader [Paperback] Patrice Pavis (Editor)

• The Intimate Act Of Choreography [Paperback] Lynne Anne Blom (Author), L. Tarin Chaplin (Author)

• The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities [Paperback] Ramsay Burt (Author)

• The mastery of movement, [Hardcover] Rudolf von Laban (Author)

• The Poetics of Space [Paperback] Gaston Bachelard (Author)

• The Romantic Ballet in England: Its Development, Fulfilment, and Decline [Hardcover] Ivor Guest (Author)

• The Routledge Dance Studies Reader [Paperback] Alexandra Carter (Editor), Janet O’Shea (Editor)

• The Senses in Performance: 1 (Worlds of Performance) [Paperback] Sally Banes (Editor), Andre Lepecki (Editor)

• The Symbolic Order: A Contemporary Reader on the Arts Debate (Falmer Press library on aesthetic education) [Paperback] Peter Abbs (Editor)

• The Thinking Body [Paperback] Mabel Elsworth Todd (Author)

• The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader [Hardcover] Noel Witts (Editor)

• The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators [Paperback] Jean M. Brown (Editor), Naomi Mindlin (Editor), Charles Humphrey Woodford (Editor)

• Time and the Dancing Image [Paperback] Deborah Jowitt (Author)

• Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue 1961-2001 [Paperback] Hendel Teicher (Author)

• A widening field journeys in body and imaginatin Miranda Tufnell and Chris Crickmay (Auhors)

• What is Dance?: Readings in Theory and Criticism (Galaxy Books) [Paperback] Roger Copeland (Editor), Marshall Cohen (Editor)

• When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders [Paperback] Jennifer Fisher (Editor), Anthony Shay (Editor)

• William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies: A Tool for the Analytical Dance Eye [Paperback] William Forsythe (Author)

• Writing About Dance [Paperback] Wendy Oliver (Author)

• Yes? No! Maybe…: Seductive Ambiguity in Dance [Paperback] Emilyn Claid (Author)

• Your Move: New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance (With Exercise Sheets) [Paperback] Ann Hutchinson Guest (Author)

• Ballet Conditioning

• Beautiful Body, Beautiful Mind: The Power of Positive Imagery [Paperback] Eric Franklin (Author) 

• Conditioning for Dance: Training for Peak Performance in All Dance Forms [Paperback] Eric Franklin (Author)

• Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance [Paperback] Eric Franklin (Author)

• Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery [Paperback] Eric Franklin (Author)

• Franklin Method Ball and Imagery Exercises for Relaxed and Flexible Shoulders, Neck and Thorax [Paperback] Eric Franklin (Author)

• Inner Focus Outer Strength: Using Imagery and Exercise for Health, Strength and Beauty [Paperback] Eric Franklin (Author), Katharina Hartmann (Author)

• Pelvic Power: Mind/Body Exercises for Strength, Flexibility, Posture and Balance for Men and Women [Paperback] Eric Franklin (Author) 

• Relax Your Neck, Liberate Your Shoulders: The Ultimate Exercise Program for Tension Relief [Paperback] Eric Franklin (Author)

• Dance Technique, Injury Prevention and Care of the Dancer [Paperback] Justin Howse (Author), Moira McCormack (Author) 

• The Dancer\’s Way: The New York City Ballet Guide to Mind, Body, and Nutrition [Paperback] Linda H. Hamilton (Author), New York City Ballet (Author)

• Advice for Dancers: Emotional Counsel and Practical Strategies [Paperback] Linda H. Hamilton Ph.D. (Author)

• The Person Behind the Mask: Guide to Performing Arts Psychology (Publications in Creativity Research) [Paperback] Linda H. Hamilton (Author)

• Dance Medicine: Head to Toe: A Dancer’s Guide to Health [Hardcover] Judith R. Peterson MD (Author)

• The Healthy Dancer: ABT Guidelines for Dancer Health

• Ballet Technique

• T is for Tutu: A Ballet Alphabet [Hardcover] Sonia Rodriguez (Author), Kurt Browning (Author), Wilson Ong (Illustrator)

• Ballet for Dummies [Paperback] Scott Speck (Author), Evelyn Cisneros (Author) 

• Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique [Paperback] A. Vaganova (Author), A. Chujoy (Translator) 

• Royal Academy Of Dancing Step By Step Ballet Class: Illustrated Guide to the Official Ballet Syllabus [Illustrated] [Paperback] Royal Academy Of Dancing (Author)

• The Ballet Companion: A Dancer\’s Guide to the Technique, Traditions and Joys of Ballet [Hardcover] Eliza Gaynor Minden (Author) 

• Biographies

• Rudolf Nureyev: The Life [Paperback] Julie Kavanagh (Author)

• The Everyday Dancer [Hardcover] Deborah Bull (Author)

• Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet [Hardcover Stephen Manes (Author)