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Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins

The Art Of Dancing, Historically Illustrated - To Which Is Added A Few Hints On Etiquette

The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance

Finger Cymbals:Play Them Correctly

Ballroom Dance Wedding

Research Methods in the Dance Sciences

Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts

Méthode de création chorégraphique

Ballroom Etiquette - For Ladies And Gentlemen

Producing Dance

Ballroom Dances - For All

Kazuo e Yoshito Ohno

Danse

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

Kinetic Atmospheres

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

The Encyclopedia of World Ballet

Dance Legacies of Scotland

Re-Choreographing Cortical & Cartographic Maps

Ideokinesis

British Dance: Black Routes

La Danse hindoue

EgriBiancoDanza

How To Be a Professional Dancer