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Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts

Always More Than One

The Recruitable Dancer: The Essential Guide to Navigating College Admissions and the Dance Team Journey

No Hard Feelings - A Dancer's Reflections

Teaching Ballroom Dancing - The Class Method

Essentials of Dance Psychology

Essays on Classical Indian Dance

How To Be a Professional Dancer

Ensino de dança hoje

Re-Choreographing Cortical & Cartographic Maps

Ballroom Dancing Techniques - The One Step

Estructura de una Coreografía en Flamenco

The Art of Dance Composition

Tango. Technical Guide to Fundamentals and analysis of emotional behaviors in dance

Hofesh Shechter

The Thinking Body

Looking at Contemporary Dance

The Dancer's Handbook

ENRICH LIFE

The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance

Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former Yugoslav Space

Dancing with Cats

25 Tango Lessons

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