Studies in Dance History

Studies in Dance History volumes are published and distributed by the UW Press on behalf of the Society of Dance History Scholars.

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Founded in 1988, Studies in Dance History aims to further the goals of the Society of Dance History Scholars by making widely available the extraordinarily rich and diverse scholarship that takes dance as its subject. Ranging from new methods of historical inquiry to multiple theoretical perspectives, volumes in the series answer a growing demand for works that provide fresh analytical perspectives on dancing, dancers, and dances in a global context. Each volume in the series is accessible to specialist and layperson alike, providing a valuable resource for scholars and a pleasurable education for the general reader.

Please send all inquiries to Sarah Davies Cordova, Chair, Editorial Board, Society of Dance History Scholars, cordovas@uwm.edu.

Titles in the Studies in Dance History series

March 2013
The Body of the People
East German Dance since 1945
Jens Richard Giersdorf

January 2012
Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey
Politics and the Creative Impulse of Reconstruction
Lesley Main

June 2010
Urban Bush Women
Twenty Years of African American Dance, Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out
Nadine George-Graves

December 2009
Dance and the Nation
Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka
Includes DVD
Susan A. Reed

January 2008
Women's Work
Making Dance in Europe before 1800
Edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks

December 2006
Dancing from Past to Present
Nation, Culture, Identities
Edited by Theresa Jill Buckland

March 2006
Kaiso!
Writings by and about Katherine Dunham
Edited by VèVè A. Clark and Sara E. Johnson

February 2005
The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage
Gennaro Magri and His World
Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Bruce Alan Brown

November 2003
Liebe Hanya
Mary Wigman's Letters to Hanya Holm
Compiled and edited by Claudia Gitelman
Introduction by Hedwig Müller
Letters translated by Marianne Forster and Catherine T. Klingler

April 2003
Reinventing Dance in the 1960s
Everything Was Possible
Edited by Sally Banes with the assistance of Andrea Harris
Foreward by Mikhail Baryshnikov

January 2003
Writings on Ballet and Music
Fedor Lopukhov
Edited and with an introduction by Stephanie Jordan
Translations by Dorinda Offord

November 2001
Dancing Many Drums
Excavations in African American Dance
Edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz

July 2001
Dancing Desires
Choreographing Sexualities on and off the Stage
Edited by Jane C. Desmond

September 2000
Carlo Blasis in Russia (1861—1864)
Elizabeth Souritz

March 2000
The Origins of the Bolero School
Edited by Javier Suárez-Pajares and Xoán M. Carreira
Translated by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez, Aurelio de la Vega, and Lynn Garafola

February 2000
Of, By, and For the People
Dancing on the Left in the 1930s
Edited by Lynn Garafola
With a preface by Barbara Melosh

June 1996
Ned Wayburn and the Dance Routine
From Vaudeville to the Ziegfeld Follies
Barbara Stratyner

March 1996
The Making of a Choreographer
Ninette de Valois and Bar aux Folies-Bergère
Beth Genné

September 1994
Dancing in Montreal
Seeds of a Choreographic History
Iro Tembeck