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Dance Education around the World

Ballroom Dancing to Bronze Medal Standard

Creative Dance for All Ages

Re-Choreographing Cortical & Cartographic Maps

25 Tango Lessons

HowExpert Guide to Dance and Choreography

Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology

Ballade by Anna Sokolow

Teaching Ballroom Dancing - The Class Method

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

Cuerpo y Visualidad

Looking at Contemporary Dance

The History Of Dance - The Dance In Portugal, Spain, And Italy

Becomings

The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance

Floating Bones

No Hard Feelings - A Dancer's Reflections

The History Of Dance - Ritual Dance

Dancing Mind, Minding Dance

Autograph Collection

The First Steps

The Dance (by An Antiquary). Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D

Essays on Classical Indian Dance

Dancing for Fun