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Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts

Essays on Classical Indian Dance

Dancing for Fun

Hofesh Shechter

The Dancer's Handbook

Ballroom Dancing

Instruments of Embodiment

Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

The Intellect Handbook of Dance Education Research

Academic Approach to Arabic Dance

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies

Méthode de création chorégraphique

An Aspiring Ballerina's Guide to: Feet & Pointe Shoes

In Smithereens

PASSION IN EVERY STEP: A Novice's Handbook to Argentine Tango Mastery

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery

Essentials of Dance Psychology

Ballroom Dances - For All

How to Swing Dance

Dance and Activism

ENRICH LIFE

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii