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    Posted 01 August 2001 - 09:22 AM

    Off the top of my head, and I know I'll think of four more as soon as I send this:

    Dance Writings and Poetry by Edwin Denby

    Dancing Women; Female Bodies on Stage by S. Barnes

    Balanchine's Tchaikovsky by S. Volkov

    These are favourites....

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    Posted 01 August 2001 - 09:58 AM

    The collection of Arlene Croce's essays for The New Yorker ("Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker") is must reading. Uncannily astute big-picture analysis woven into uncannily deft description.

    "Time and the Dancing Image" (I think that's the title) by Deborah Jowitt takes an interesting historical view.

    [ 08-01-2001: Message edited by: Alla ]

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    Posted 01 August 2001 - 11:52 AM

    Walter Sorrell's "Dance in Its Time" is a wonderful book, I think.  More "dance and society" (through history, starting with the Middle Ages) than critical analysis.  It was a shock to me when I first read it, because it talks about DANCING and not dancers.

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    Posted 01 August 2001 - 07:26 PM

    There is a book called "What is Dance? Readings in Theory and Criticism," edited by Roger Copeland and Marshall Cohen, that contains both theoretical articles on dance and pieces of practical criticism by Arlene Croce and others. I found it useful.



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