Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader

This new collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion. Editors Dils and Albright address the current dearth of comprehensive teaching material in the dance history field through the creation of a multifaceted, non-linear, yet well-structured and comprehensive survey of select moments in the development of both American and World dance. This book is illustrated with over 50 photographs, and would make an ideal text for undergraduate classes in dance ethnography, criticism or appreciation, as well as dance history—particularly those with a cross-cultural, contemporary, or an American focus.

The reader is organized into four thematic sections which allow for varied and individualized course use: Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices, World Dance Traditions, America Dancing, and Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts. The editors have structured the readings with the understanding that contemporary theory has thoroughly questioned the discursive construction of history and the resultant canonization of certain dances, texts and points of view. The historical readings are presented in a way that encourages thoughtful analysis and allows the opportunity for critical engagement with the text.

• Ballet and Modern Dance (Third Edition) (World of Art)
• Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History
• Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement
• The Dance Experience: Insights into History, Culture and Creativity
• No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century
• Dance As a Theatre Art: Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present
• The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators
• History of Dance: An Interactive Arts Approach
• Studying Dance Cultures around the World: An Introduction to Multicultural Dance Education
• A Choreographer's Handbook