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And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
by Henry Alford
A journalist and humorist's story about Zumba leads him to a journey through many forms of dance, including ballet, hip-hop, jazz and ballroom, and how this new passion changed his life.
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Dancing : the pleasure, power, and art of movement
by Gerald Jonas
An illustrated, international survey of the art of dance discusses the major theatrical dance traditions, as well as dance as a form of social, religious, and cultural expression, focusing on the relationship between dance and culture. TV tie-in.
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What the eye hears : a history of tap dancing
by Brian Seibert
An authoritative history of tap dancing explores its unique role as an art form that creates its own music, tracing its origins in African traditions and other folk-dance forms, its growth on the stage and screen and its reinvention by a new generation of performers.
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Would it kill you to stop doing that? : a modern guide to manners
by Henry Alford
A contributing humorist to the New York Times and Spy tackles etiquette and manners for the modern age, providing interviews with civility experts like Judith Martin and Tim Gunn and more unlikely subjects including a former prisoner and an army sergeant.
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Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression
by Morris Dickstein
A cultural history of the 1930s by the author of Gates of Eden explores the anxiety, despair, and optimism of the period while evaluating such factors as the Dust Bowl migrations, "screwball comedy," and swing band music to evaluate how period culture provided a dynamic lift to the country's morale.
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Dancing in the streets : a history of collective joy
by Barbara Ehrenreich
The author of the critically acclaimed Blood Rites examines the human impulse toward collective joy, historically expressed in communal celebrations, reflecting the human nature as social beings, involving ecstatic revelries of feasting, costuming, and dancing, from the ancient Greeks’ worship of Dionysus to the more recent “carnivalization” of sports.
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No fixed points : dance in the twentieth century
by Nancy Reynolds
Traces one hundred years of dance in Europe and North America, profiling dancer-choreographers, dance styles, and performance, before placing dance in a broader social and historical context
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Grandmother's secrets : the ancient rituals and healing power of belly dancing
by Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi
"Come, sit by me," says Grandmother. "Take this chalk in your hand. Now draw a dot and concentrate all your energy into this one dot. It is the beginning and the end, the navel of the world." So Fawzia Al-Rawi describes her grandmother's first lesson about the ancient craft of Oriental dance. Grandmother's Secretsalways circles back to this grandmother and this young girl, echoing the circular movements of the dance itself. Al-Rawi has written a strikingly graceful and original book that blends personal memoir with the history and theory of the dance known in the West as "belly dancing."
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