From Blog Director Jill Randall:
One of my favorite activities each year is to compile this list of books about dance, movement, arts education, and somatics. I am a longtime dance book lover and collector. I also now have the privilege of writing book write-ups/short reviews for Dance Teacher Magazine each issue.
I hope you find a title or two here to purchase for yourself or to add to your course's reading list.
Arts Integration in Diverse K-5 Classrooms: Cultivating Literacy Skills and Conceptual Understanding by Liane Brouillette (Teachers College Press)
Bodies Alive: A dance journey across the Contact Improvisation landscape by Liesbeth de Jong and Sarah Guilleux (self-published)
Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History by Christopher J. Smith (University of Illinois Press)
Drawing the Surface: A Biography in Charts by Annie-B Parson (Wesleyan Press)
Hot Feet and Social Change: African Dance and Diaspora Communities edited by Kariamu Welsh, Esailama G.A. Diouf, and Yvonne Daniel (University of Illinois Press)
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema by Hannah Durkin (University of Illinois Press)
Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life by Twyla Tharp (Simon & Shuster)
Making Dances That Matter: Resources for Community Creativity by Anna Halprin (Wesleyan University Press)
Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary by Carrie Noland (University of Chicago Press)
Mindfulness for Dancers by Corinne Haas (self-published)
Out Loud: A Memoir by Mark Morris and Wesley Stace (Penguin Press)
Physics & Dance by Emily Coates and Sarah Demers (Yale University Press)
(Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives edited by Karen Barbour, Vicky Hunter, and Melanie Kloetzel (Intellect Ltd)
The Disintegration of the Critic by Jill Johnston (Sternberg Press)
The Style of Movement: Fashion & Dance by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory (Rizzoli)
Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion by Susan Leigh Foster (Oxford University Press)
And, a few 2018 titles you might have missed:
Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance by Sondra Fraleigh (University of Illinois Press)
Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Towards an Inclusive Somatics by Don Hanlon Johnson (North Atlantic Books)
How to Land: Finding Stable Ground in an Unstable World by Ann Cooper Albright (Oxford University Press)
Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions edited by Christine Caldwell and Lucia Bennett Leighton (North Atlantic Books)
The Profitable Artist by New York Foundation for the Arts (Allworth)
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Wendy Perron also just published a list, which includes a few more titles not mentioned here: http://wendyperron.com/notable-dance-books-of-2019/?fbclid=IwAR0eaMd31--TUfgdaAFEjQrnZRa0SZMN1X5uINanTsYvYEaSqwC-6-3TEdY
Posted by: Jill Randall | 12/15/2019 at 08:22 AM