Studies in Dance History

Studies in Dance History volumes are published and distributed by the UW Press on behalf of the Dance Studies Association.

Founded in 1988, Studies in Dance History aims to further the goals of the Dance Studies Association 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.

Casebound $49.95 a
ISBN 978-0-299-32240-3

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Futures of Dance Studies
Edited by Susan Manning, Janice Ross, and Rebecca Schneider

“A field-defining text featuring provocative and dynamic work from the next generation of dance studies scholars. The essays in this volume prove that every college needs a dance studies program and every program needs this book.”
—Nadine George-Graves, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater

Casebound $42.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-32200-7

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Dancing Spirit, Love, and War
Performing the Translocal Realities of Contemporary Fiji
Evadne Kelly

“Skillfully theorized and graciously written, Dancing Spirit, Love, and War explores the multifarious makings, unmakings, and remakings of meke, both in Fiji and across the Pacific to Canada. This is an evocative and complicated study, critical of the power relations it analyzes yet tempered productively by the family ties that at moments cut across and between them.”
—Sally Ann Ness, University of California, Riverside

Dramaturgy in Motion
At Work on Dance and Movement Performance
Katherine Profeta
Fall 2015

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

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