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Dance: Books

Library research guide on many aspects of dance

Call Numbers for Dance in the Libraries

Use the following call number ranges to search the stacks on your own:

GV 1585 - Dictionaries, encyclopedias
GV 1588 - Philosophy (and theory)
GV 1589- Study and teaching
GV 1590-GV 1594 - General works
GV 1595 - Special aspects of the subject as a whole
GV 1597 - Dancing as a profession
GV 1600 - Dance criticism, appreciation
GV 1645-GV 1728 - Dance history (and historical dance)
GV 1743 - National dances. Folk dances and dancing (General)
GV 1746-GV 1771 - Social dancing. Ballroom dancing
GV 1781-GV 1795 - Theatrical dancing (Biography: GV 1785)
GV 1796 - Special dances

Library of Congress Classification Outline
For more information about call number ranges, check out this Library of Congress outline.

Recent Books

Queer Dance by Clare Croft (Editor)
Call Number: GV1588.6 .Q84 2017 (RH)
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017
Listening for Africa by David F. García
Call Number: E-Book
Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
Improvising Improvisation by Gary Peters
Call Number: E-Book
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
The Anatomy of Dance Discourse by Karin Schlapbach
Call Number: DE71 .S295 2018
Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2018.
National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame by Lisa Schlansker Kolosek
Call Number: GV1624.5.S27 K65 2017 (RH)
Albany, NY : Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press, 2017
Rave by Nav Haq (Editor)
Call Number: ML3540 .R38 2016
London, UK : Black Dog Publishing ; Antwerp, Belgium : M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), 2016

Research and Reference Books

Dance on Camera: A Guide to Dance Films and Videos by Louise Spain
Call Number: GV1595.D342 1998 (RH LC)
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.
Rev. ed.
Located in Reference Area at RH and in Oversize at LC.
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers by Martha Bremser (Ed.)
Call Number: GV1785.A1 B74 1999 (LC)
London: Routledge, 1999.
Film Choreographers and Dance Directors: An Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia, With a History and Filmographies, 1893 through 1995 by Larry Billman
Call Number: REF GV1779.B55 1997 (RH LC)
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.
Researching Dance by Sondra Horton Fraleigh
Call Number: GV1589 .R47 1999
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.
Twentieth-Century American Music for the Dance by Isabelle Emerson
Call Number: REF ML128.D3 .E44 1996 (RH)
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.

Notable Books

Conditioning for Dancers by Tom Welsh
Call Number: GV1589.W475 2009 (RH)
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009.
Indians and Wannabes: Native American PowWow Dancing in the Northeast and Beyond by Ann M. Axtmann
Call Number: E-book
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, [2014].
Move. Choreographing You: Art and Dance Since the 1960s by Stephanie Rosenthal (Ed.)
Call Number: N8217.D3 M68 2011 (RH)
Hayward: Cambridge, MA: Distributed by MIT Press, 2011.
Reading Dance by Robert Gottlieb (Ed.)
Call Number: GV1600 .R43 2008 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Pantheon, 2008.

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