Book Reviews

  • Book Reviews

Book Review: A Magic Carpet Ride Through Ballet’s History of Orientalism

Catja Christensen

Banishing Orientalism is an intellectually stimulating, essential read.

Photo: Annie-B Parson
  • Book Reviews

Threading through life and choreography with Annie-B Parson

Kristen Shahverdian

What is in choreography and how does it exist around us?

Photo: Noel Bégin/Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
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Book Review: Getting Down to the Roots of Jazz Dance

Darcy Grabenstein

The Africanist aesthetic as essential to jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography.

Photo: Stephan Koplowitz
  • Book Reviews, Interviews

Koplowitz’s On Site: A Book Review and Conversation

Jonathan Stein

“Listening to the site leads to acts of discovery-” Debra Loewen

Notation: Gabe Valentine
  • Book Reviews, Interviews

Embodying Marks: Dance Notation and Scores in Conversation

Emilee Lord

A conversation on motif description and scores with Emilee Lord and Brendan McCall.

Photo: Kara Nepomuceno
  • Book Reviews, thINKpieces

Loose ribbons

Kara Nepomuceno

A “more socially just future” reaches beyond drastic changes in ballet’s foundations.

Cartoonist: Jordan Granger
  • Book Reviews

Chronicling Passion for a Life of Dance

Kristen Shahverdian

The book utilizes stream of consciousness writing, photographs, graphics, and drawings to share Jaye Allison’s viewpoint on a

Photo: Cesar Alberto Guzman
  • Book Reviews

Paradoxical Transmissions: The Dance of Darkness in Words

Leslie Bush

Butoh explained through science in Vangeline’s Butoh: Cradling Empty Space

Photo: Joan Myers Brown, private collection
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Brown’s “Audacious Hope”: A Book Review

Ellen Gerdes

Gottschild tells the story of both discrimination against and perseverance of black dance pioneers in the 1940s and ’50s

Photo: Cambria Press
  • Book Reviews

And He Danced: A Review of Lynn Matluck Brooks’s John Durang: Man of the American Stage

Kirsten Kaschock