Don'ts for Dancers was originally printed in 1925 and contains hundreds of snippets of entertaining, timeless and amusing advice for anyone learning to dance or attending a party.

Written by the author who was raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, this book tells the story of how he came to be Mao's last dancer.

An irreverent, hilariously illustrated guide to the wonderful world of the dance floor, covering everything from the most basic moves to the very advanced.

Intends to bring together a cast of dance ethnographers, dancers, teachers, and dance historians to discuss on a variety of topics in the world of Irish step dance and related percussive dance forms. This work includes essays that originated at a symposium held at New York University in 2006 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Riverdance .

Tradition in Transit.

Offers a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice in India and its diaspora. This title outlines how dance histories have been written and rewritten, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts shaped Indian dance's negotiation with modernity.

'Strongly recommended' The Dancing Times A guide to techniques, injury prevention and treatment, focusing on five main areas - Anatomy and Physiology, General Injuries, Specific Injuries - cause and treatment, Technical Faults and Anatomical Variations.

Learn the rudiments of the ancient, sensual art of belly dancing with this unique kit. It's packed with a full set of finger cymbals, adhesive jewels to adorn your face, and a 32page book that explains all the basic moves: head slide, choo-choo shimmy, snake arms, and much more. Who knew exercise could be this much fun?

Examines Irish stepdancing - from the organization of competitions to the movement of dancers' bodies - in relation to themes of authority, authenticity, and control. This book reveals the issues, forces, and values that entwine all participants, including competition organizers, judges, dancers, parents, and teachers.

Tango, waltz, square dance, hip-hop, ballet, swing, jazz, charus line, afro-cuban-dance has come from every culture and corner of the world. Almost every known culture on the planet has a dance tradition. This book features interviews with dancers, some famous and some not, and examines the importance of the art form in their lives.

An extended exploration of Yvonne Rainer's influential 1968 dance program The Mind is a Muscle, discussing its critique of relations between labor and value, it's relationship to 1960's art practice in New York, leisure time in postwar America, and the mind-body duality.

This text contains a short summary of the evolution of jazz dance from its roots in folklore to its modern status as a style of performance dance. The author pays tribute to jazz dance's earliest exponent, the Swiss choreographer Alain Bernard.

An extended exploration of Yvonne Rainer's influential 1968 dance program The Mind is a Muscle, discussing its critique of relations between labor and value, it's relationship to 1960's art practice in New York, leisure time in postwar America, and the mind-body duality.

This text offers a theoretical and practical framework for the teaching of dance in education. The author examines the processes of composing, performing and appreciating dances, and analyzes how dance education can contribute towards artistic, aesthetic and cultural education.

A thoroughly up-to-date and full-colour third edition of this popular text written for the new AS/A2 specifications and relevant Applied A-levels, BTEC and other vocational Dance qualifications.

With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews discuss dances often with visual art, theatre, film and music, drawing on continental philosophy to explore notions of space, time, identity, sensation, memory and ethics.

This dictionary provides the information necessary for dance fans to navigate the diverse modern dance scene. With an emphasis on performance - readers will find both fact and analysis on a wide range of subjects from dancers and choreographers to dance styles and technical terms.

A step-by-step guide to tap-dancing for beginners, with accompanying CD.

If you were born to dance, but are having difficulty with the first steps to stardom, this is the book for you. From finding the right training to getting an agent, from performing in music videos to working on the West End stage, this is a down-to-earth source book of tips that will inspire and encourage you.