Publications by our members

Robert Abrams

http://www.exploredance.com
• Dance Your Verbs (2011)
  Description: This is a board book with striking photos and powerful verbs. Teach your two year old dance and literacy!
  Web page of the book: http://www.exploredance.com/article.htm?id=3021
  Other contact information: This book is currently available by special order only. Contact Robert Abrams at editor@exploredance.com.
  
  
• Sweet Dreams, My Dance Critics (2010)
  Description: This is a book in which nine dance critics fall asleep and dream of their favorite dances.
  Web page of the book: http://www.exploredance.com/article.htm?id=3021
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Mindy Aloff

http://www.mindyaloff.com
• Dance Anecdotes: Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, and Modern Dance (2007)
  Description: A collection of stories and comments about dancing from around the world, over the past two millenia.
  Web page of the book: Available through Oxford University Press and on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com
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• Hippo in a Tutu: Dancing in Disney Animation (2008)
  Description: History and analysis of dance elements in Disney shorts and features made when Walt Disney was alive.
  Web page of the book: Available at some Barnes and Noble stores, on Amazon.com, and on barnesandnoble.com
  Other contact information: Jessica Ward, Disney Editions, NYC: Jessica.Ward@Disney.com
  
  
• Leaps in the Dark: Art and the World by Agnes de Mille (2011)
  Additional authors: The book is by Agnes de Mille; it's an anthology I edited.
  Description: A collection of de Mille's writings about dancing, culled from the nearly dozen volumes by her, all of which are currently out of print.
  Web page of the book: Available from Amazon.com, the University Press of Florida, barnesandnoble.com, and some independent book stores
  Other contact information: University Press of Florida Press rep: Stephanie Williams, Assistant Sales and Marketing Manager: SW@upf.com, 352.392.1351, ext.243
  
  

Lori Ortiz

http://www.readingdance.com
• Disco Dance (2011)
  Description: Dance culture of the disco era, including Hustle and other popular social forms. In the reference set "The American Dance Floor."
  Web page of the book: http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=2147489433
  Other contact information: http://www.amazon.com/Disco-Dance-American-Floor/dp/0313377464
  
  

Marcia B. Siegel

• Howling Near Heaven - Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance (2006)
  Description: critical biography of Tharp's work
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  Other contact information: St. Martin's Press
  
  
• Mirrors & Scrims - The Life and Afterlife of Ballet (2010)
  Description: collection of reviews and essays on ballet repertory
  Web page of the book:
  Other contact information: Wesleyan University Press
  
  

Susanna Sloat

• Making Caribbean Dance: Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures (2010)
  Additional authors: I am the editor; there are 22 other authors
  Description: The second overview of Caribbean dance I have edited, full of invaluable and accurate information of a kind that is hard to find about dance on many of the Caribbean islands.
  Web page of the book: http://www.upf.com/
  Other contact information: http://www.amazon.com/Making-Caribbean-Dance-Continuity-Creativity/dp/0813034671
  
  

David Vaughan

http://merce.org
• Merce Cunningham/Fifty Years (1997)
  Description: Chronicle of and commentary on Merce Cunningham's dances
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• Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet (1977)
  Additional authors: Mary Clarke (co-editor)
  Description: One-volume encyclopedia of dance and ballet
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• Frederick Ashton and his Ballets (1977)
  Description: History and description of Ashton's ballets
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More Publications by our members

Jack Anderson

• Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History

Lynne Conner

• Spreading the Gospel of the Modern Dance: Newspaper Dance Criticism in the United States, 1850-1934

Jennifer Dunning

• Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance
• Great Performances: A Celebration
• Steps in Time
• Geoffrey Holder: A Life in Theater, Dance, and Art
• But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet

David Gere

• Barton Mumaw, Dancer: From Denishawn to Jacob's Pillow and Beyond
• Looking Out: Perspectives on Dance and Criticism in a Multicultural World

Deborah Jowitt

• Meredith Monk (Paj Books - Art+ Performance Series)
• Time and the Dancing Image
• Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
• Not Just Any Body: Advancing Health, Well-being and Excellence in Dance and Dancers
• Marmalade Me
• The Knowing Body: The Artist As Storyteller in Contemporary Performance
• Dance beat: selected views and reviews, 1967-1976
• The Dance in Mind (Profiles and Reviews 1976-83)

Anna Kisselgoff

• Coming soon.

Marcia B. Siegel

• Days on Earth: The Dance of Doris Humphrey
• The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976-1982
• The Shapes of Change: Images of American Dance
• Watching the Dance Go by
• At the Vanishing Point: A Critic Looks at Dance

David Vaughan

• David Vaughan's Senior Critic's address at the 2007 Dance Critics Association conference