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Subject Guide: Performing Arts

Highlighting dance, music, opera, and theater materials from Center and partner collections

[Dance] : Franz Schubert's Schmetterling I. 78.733. Leo Baeck Institute

Dance Library Highlights

Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance / Janice Ross; foreword by Richard Schechner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Batsheva dance company 1964-1980: my story / Rena Gluck. 2006.

"But first a school": The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet / Jennifer Dunning. New York, NY: Viking, 1985.

Choreographing Identity: Modern Dance and American Jewish life, 1924--1954 / Josh Perelman. New York University: 2008.

Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins / Greg Lawrence. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.

Dancers Never Die: The Life and Soul of a Flamenco Dancer / Clarissa Talve. New York : Dance Arts Press, 2012.

Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance / Rebecca Rossen. New York: Oxford University Press,  2014.

Diaghilev et les Ballets Russes / Dessins et textes de Michel Larionov., 1970.

Hasidic Dance: A Historical and Theological Analysis / Feigue Berman. New York University:1998.

Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man / Christine Conrad. 1st ed. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2000.

Lincoln Kirstein, The Published Writings, 1922-1977: A First Bibliography / compiled by Harvey Simmonds, Louis H. Silverstein, Nancy Lassalle. New Haven: Yale University Library, 1978.

Once a Dancer- / Allegra Kent. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Palucca: die Biografie / Susanne Beyer. Berli : AvivA, 2009.