Kirjallisuutta
Yleisiä tanssihistorioita
Tanssiantologioita
Tanssin hakuteoksia
I Johdatus länsimaisen taidetanssin historiaan
II Baletin synty
III Baletti 1800-luvulla
IV Modernin baletin synty
V 1900-luvun alun uudet tanssisuuntaukset
VI Amerikkalainen moderni ja postmoderni tanssi
VII Kansalliset baletit ja nykykoregrafeja
VIII Taidetta, viihdettä ja nykysuuntauksia
Kirjallisuutta muihin tanssilajeihin liittyen
Yleishyödyllisiä linkkejä liittyen länsimaisen taidetanssin historiaan
Yleisiä tanssihistorioita
Adair, Christy. Women and Dance: sylphs and sirens. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994.
Andersson, Jack. Ballet and Modern Dance – A Concise History. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Book Company, 1986.
Au, Susan. Ballet and Modern Dance. London: Thames & Hudson, 1988.
Burt Ramsay. The Male Dancer. London: Routledge, 1995
Clark, Margaret & Clement, Crisp. The History of Dance. London: Orbis, 1981.
Jonas, Gerlad. Dancing – The Power of Dance Around the World. London: BBC Books, 1992.
Jowitt, Deborah. Time and the Dancing Image. Berkley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988.
Lee, Carol. Ballet in Western Culture. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Raynold, Nancy. No fixed points: dance in the twentieth century.
Sorell, Walter. The Dance through the Ages. London: Thames & Hudson, 1967.
Sorell, Walter. Dance in its Time. New York: Anchor Press, 1981.
Tanssiantologioita
Cohen, Selma Jeanne & Matheson, Katy (ed.). Dance as a Theatre Art – source readings in dance history from 1581 to the present. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Book Company, 1992.
Brown, Jean Morrison (ed.). The Vision of Modern Dance. London: Dance Books, 1979.
Copeland, Richard (ed.). What is Dance. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Suhonen, Tiina (toim.) Hetken Vangit. Helsinki: Valtionpainatuskeskus, 1991.
Tanssin hakuteoksia
Balanchine, George & Mason, Francis. Balanchine’s Festival on Ballet. New York: Doubleday, 1954, tarkistettu painos 1978.
Bremser, Martha (ed). Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. London : Routledge, 1999.
Clark, Mary & Vaughan, David. The Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet. London: Pitman, 1977.
Craine, Debra & Mackrell, Judith. The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
International Dictionary of Ballet, Volume 1 & 2. Detroit, London, Washington: St. James Press, 1993.
Koegler, Horst. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet. London: University Press, 1977, tarkistettu painos 1987.
Robertson, Allen & Hutera, Donald. The Dance Handbook. Harlow: Longmans, 1988.
I Johdatus länsimaisen taidetanssin historiaan
Adshead, Janet ja Layson, June (ed.) Dance History. London: Dance Books, 1983, 1986.
Albright, Ann Cooper & Dils, Ann (eds.) Moving History, Dancing Cultures. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 2001.
Arbeau, Thoinot. Orchesography (1588). Käännös Mary Stewart. New York: Dover Publications, 1967.
Beck-Friis, Regina & Blomqvist, Magnus & Nordenfelt, Birgitta. Dansnöjen genom tiden – Västereuropeiska danser från medeltid och renässans. Stockholm: Akademielitteratur, 1980.
Buckland, Theresa Jill. Tanssin hurma teoksessa Eurooppa – urheileva ja leikkivä ihminen. Helsinki: WSOY, 1993.
Carter, Alexandra (ed). Rethinking Dance History. London: Routledge , 2004.
Davies J. G. Liturgical Dance. London: SCM Press Ltd., 1984.
Jaffe, Nigel Allenby. Folk Dance of Europe. Skipton: Folk Dance Enterprises, 1990.
Ksenofon. Sokrates (suom. Pentti Saarikoski). Helsinki: Otava, 1985.
Lawler, Lilian. The Dance in the Ancient Greece. Middletown, Conneticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1964, 1978.
Platon. Teokset, 6 osa, Lait. Helsinki: Otava, 1986.
II Baletin synty
Christout, M.F. The Ballet de Cour in the 17th century. Geneve: Édition Minkoff, 1987.
Fairfax, Edmund. The styles of eighteenth-century ballet. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press , 2003.
Guest, Ivor. The Ballet of the Enlightenment: the establishment of ballet d’action in France 1770–1793. London: Dance Books, 1992.
Harris-Warrick, Rebecca & Brownm Bruce Alan. The grotesque dancer on the eighteenth-century stage: Gennaro Magri and his world. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
Hilton, Wendy. Dance of Court and Theatre – The French Noble Style 1690–1725. London: Dance Books, 1981.
McGowan, Margaret M. Lart du Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1978.
Noverre, Jean-Geroges. Letters on Dancing and Ballets. New York: Dance Horizon, 1966.
Rameau, Pierre. The Dancing Master. Hampshire: Dance Books, 2003, alkuperäinen käsikirjoitus 1725.
III Baletti 1800-luvulla
Beaumont, Cyril, W. A Ballet called Giselle. London: Dance Books, 1988.
Blasis, Carlo. An Elementary Treatise upon the Theory and Practice of the Art of Dancing. New York: Dover Publications, 1968.
Bournonville, August. My Theatre Life. Middletown, Conneticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1979.
Garafole, Lynn (ed.) Rethinking the Sylph: new perspectives on the romantic ballet. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1997.
Guest, Ivor. Ballet under Napoleon. Alton: Dance Books, 2002.
Guest, Ivor. Jules Perrot: master of the romantic ballet. London: Dance Books, 1984.
Guest, Ivor. The Romantic Ballet in Paris. Middletown, Conneticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1966.
Parker, Roger & Smart, Mary Ann (eds) Reading critics reading: opera and ballet criticism in France from the Revolution to 1848. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Parmenia, Migel. Great Ballet Prints of the Romantic Era. New York: Dover Publications, 1981.
Petipa, Marius. Russian Ballet Master: The Memoirs of Marius Petipa. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1958.
Scholl, Tim. ”Sleeping Beauty” a legend in process. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Smith, Marion. Ballet and Opera in the age of Giselle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Wiley, John Ronald. Tchaikovsky’s ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
Wiley, John Ronald (selection and translation). A century of Russian ballet: documents and accounts, 1810–1910. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990
Wiley, John Ronald. The life and ballets of Lev Ivanov: Choreographer of Swan Lake and Nutcracker. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997
IV Modernin baletin synty
Beaumont, Cyril W. Michel Fokine and his ballets. London: C. W. Beaumont, 1935.
Buckle, Richard. Diaghilev. New York: Atheneum, 1979.
Buckle, Richard. Nijinsky. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971.
Garafola, Lynn. Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Garafola, Lynn (ed). The Ballets Russes and its world. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Järvinen, Hanna. The Myth of Genius in Movement: the historical deconstruction of the Nijinsky legend. Turku: Turun yliopisto, 2003.
Karsavina, Tamara. Theatre Street. London: Heneman, 1930, lukuisia uusia painoksia.
Massine, Léonide. My Life in Ballet. London: Macmillan, 1968.
Nizinski, Ramola. Nizinski ja Nizinskin viimeiset vuodet. Helsinki: Otava, 1984.
Norton, Leslie. Léonide Massine and the 20th century ballet. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2004.
Scholl, Tim. From Petipa to Balanchine. London: Routledge, 1994.
V 1900-luvun alun uudet tanssisuuntaukset
Bachmann, Marie-Laure. Dalcroze today: an education through amd in music. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.
Blair, Frekrika. Isadora – Portrait of the Artist as a Woman. London: McGraw Hill, 1986.
Burt, Ramsay. Alien Bodies: representations of modernity and ’race’ and nation in early modern dance. London: Routledge, 1998.
Current, Richard Nelson. Loie Fuller: goddess of light. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1997.
Daly, Ann. Done into dance: Isadora Duncan in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Duncan, Isadora. My Life. London: Gollancz, 1927, useita uusia painoksia.
Hodgson, John & Preston-Dunlop, Valerie. Rudolf Laban – an introduction to his work & influence. Plymouth: Northcote House Publishers Ltd, 1990.
Howe, Dianne Shelden. Individuality and expression: the aesthetics of new German dance, 1908–1936. New York: P. Lang, 1996.
Jalkanen, Hilma. Uusi naisvoimistelu. Helsinki: Otava, 1930.
Koegler, Horst. In the Shadow of the Swastika: Dance in Germany 1927–1936. Dance Perspectives number 57, 1974.
Manning, Susan. Ecstasy and Demon: feminism and nationalism in the dances of Mary Wigman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Markard, Anna & Herman. Kurt Jooss His Life and Art.Köln: Ballet Bühnen, 1985.
Partsch-Bergsohn, Isa. The Makers of Modern Dance in Germany. Hightstown, NJ: Princeton Book Co., 2003.
Karina, Lilian & Kant, Marion. Hitler’s dancers: German modern dance in the Third Reich. New York: Berghahn, 2003.
Reyter, Nancy, Lee (ed). Essays on Francois Delsarte. Claremont, California.: Pomona College Theatre Dep., 2005.
Shelton, Suzanne. Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St. Denis.New York: Doubleday & Company, 1981.
Sorell, Walter (ed.) The Mary Wigman Book. Middletown, Conneticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1984.
VI Amerikkalainen moderni ja postmoderni tanssi
Banes, Sally. Terpsichore in Sneakers – Postmodern Dance.Middletown, Conneticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1987.
Banes, Sally (ed.) Reinventing Dance of the 1960s. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Cohen, Selma Jean. Doris Humphrey – An Artist First. Middletown, Conneticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1972.
Copeland, Roger. Merce Cunningham and modernizing modern dance. London: Routledge, 2004.
Foulkes, Julia L. Modern bodies: dance and American modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c 2002
Graham, Martha. Bloodmemory. New York: Banta Doubleday Dell Pub-lishin Group, Inc., 1991.
Humphrey, Doris. The Art of Making Dances. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1959.
Kostelanetz, Richard (ed). Merce Cunningham. London: Dance Books, 1992.
Mannig, Susan. Modern Dance, Negro Dance. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
McDonagh, Donald. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Modern Dance. New York: New American Library, 1970.
Pallant, Cheryl. Contact improvisation. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006.
Novack, Cynthia. Sharing the dance: contact improvisation and American culture. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
Siegel, Marcia B. The Shapes of Change – Images of American Dance. Berkley: University of California Press, 1985.
Siegel, Marcia B. Days on Earth: the dance of Doris Humphrey. New Haven: Yale University Press , 1987.
Siegel, Marcia B. Howling near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the reinvention of modern dance. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Taylor, Paul. Private Domain. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988.
Warren, Larry. Lester Horton: modern dance pioneer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Book Company, 1991.
Warren, Larry. Anne Sokolov: the rebellious spirit. Princeton: Princeton Book Company, 1991
VII Kansalliset baletit ja nykykoregrafeja
Buckle, Richard. George Balanchine, a ballet master. New York: Random House, 1988.
Chujoy, Anatole. The New York City Ballet. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
Driver, Senta (ed). William Forsythe. London: Routledge, 2000.
Lopukhov, Fedor. Writings on ballet and music. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
Mannoni, Gérald. Maurice Béjart. Paris: L’Avant Sceìne Ballet, 1985.
Mason, Francis. I remember Balanchine. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
Taper, Bernhard. Balanchine. Berkeley, Los Angles, London: University of California Press, 1984.
Souritz, Elizabeth. Soviet Choreographers in the 1920s. London: Dance Books, 1990.
Vaughan, David. Frederich Ashton and his ballets. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1977.
VIII Taidetta, viihdettä ja nykysuuntauksia
Acocella, Joan. Mark Morris. New York: Noonday Press, 1995.
Dolores Kirton, Cayou. Modern Jazz Dance. London: Dance Books Ltd, 1976.
Dunnig, Jennifer. Alvin Ailey: a life in dance. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998.
Hoffman, Ethan & others (eds). Butoh – Dance of the Dark Soul. New York: Aperture Founndation, Inc., 1987.
Fernandes, Ciane. Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Dance Theatre: the the aesthetics of repetition and transformation. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
Frank, Rusty E. (ed) Tap!. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990.
Long, Richard. The Black Tradition in American Dance. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989.
Morgenroth, Joyce. Speaking of dance: twelve contemporary choreograhers on their craft. New York: Routledge, 2004.
O’Conor, Barbara. Katharine Dunham: a pioneer of black dance. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2000.
Ohno, Kazuo. Kazuo Ohno’s world from without and within. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press , 2004.
Servos, Norbert & Weigelt, Gert (photography). Pina Bausch – Wuppertal Dance Theater. Köln: Ballet-Bühnen-Verlag, 1984.
Thorpe, Edward. Black Dance. London: Chatto & Windus Ltd, 1989.
Kirjallisuutta muihin tanssilajeihin liittyen
Hobin, Tina. Belly Dance: the dance of mother earth. London: Marion Boyars, 2003.
Lindroos, Katja (toim). Flamenco. Helsinki: Like, 1999.
Seppänen, Sirke. Itämainen tanssi. Helsinki: Tammi, 1993.
Tuittu, Nina. Breikkaus on mun elämäntapa. Helsinki: Maahenki, 2005.
Yleishyödyllisiä linkkejä liittyen länsimaisen taidetanssin historiaan