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.

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 Rebecca Rossen, Chair, Editorial Board, Society of Dance History Scholars.

Contemporary Directions in Asian
American Dance

Casebound $45.00 s
ISBN 978-0-299-30870-4

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Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance
Edited by Yutian Wong

“A methodologically diverse and eclectic approach to Asian American dance studies, where dance is both method and content. These essays illuminate the ways that dance shapes, troubles, and pushes against the contours of what counts as Asian American cultural production. ”
—Priya Srinivasan, author of Sweating Saris

Paper $26.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-30594-9

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Dramaturgy in Motion
At Work on Dance and Movement Performance
Katherine Profeta

“Finally an answer to that vexed question, ‘What is dance dramaturgy?’ This is a brilliantly nuanced account of a new role in contemporary performance, drawing on an extended collaboration but relevant for the entire field.”
—Susan Manning, Northwestern University

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

Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey
The Creative Impulse of Reconstruction
Lesley Main
Fall 2011

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

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

Women’s Work
Making Dance in Europe before 1800
Edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks
Fall 2007

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

Kaiso!
Writings by and about Katherine Dunham
Edited by VèVè A. Clark and Sara E. Johnson
Fall 2005

The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage
Gennaro Magri and His World
Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Bruce Alan Brown
Fall 2004

Liebe Hanya
Mary Wigman’s Letters to Hanya Holm
Compiled and edited by Claudia Gitelman, Introduction by Hedwig Müller
Fall 2003

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

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

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

Ned Wayburn and the Dance Routine
From Vaudeville to the Ziegfeld Follies
Barbara Stratyner
Fall 2000

Dancing in Montreal
Seeds of a Choreographic History
Iro Tembeck
Fall 2000