Books Received

Ananya Chatterjea, Butting Out. Reading Resistive Choreographies Through Works by Jawola Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2004, 398 pp., 42 b/w illus., ISBN 0-8195-6732-9 (cloth), ISBN 0-8195-6733-7.

Judith Chazin-Bennahum, The Lure of Perfection. Fashion and Ballet, 1780-1830, New York and London: Routledge, 2005, xx + 280 pp., 74 monochrome illustrations, h/b, n.p. and p/b, £18.99, ISBN 0-415-97037-7 and 0-415-97038-5.

Judith Chazin-Bennahum (ed.), Teaching Dance Studies, New York and London: Routledge, 2005, xvi + 252 pp., with monochrome illustrations, h/b and p/b, n.p., ISBN 0-415-97035-0 and 0-415-97036-9.

Marie-Françoise Christout, Le Ballet de Cour de Louis XIV 1643-1672 Mises en Scène, new edn., Paris: Picard and Centre National de la Danse, 2005, 292 pp., with 56 illustrations (17 of which are polychrome), p/b, 42 Euros, ISBN 2-7084 0742-2.

Yvonne Daniel, Dancing Wisdom, 2005, 256 pp., cloth cover (ISBN 0-252-02966 6), $55.00, paper cover (ISBN 0-252-07207-3), $22.00.

Katherine Dunham, Kaiso! Writings by and about Katherine Dunham, VèVè A. Clark and Sara E. Johnson (eds.), Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (Studies in Dance History. A Publication of the Society of Dance History Scholars), 2005, xx + 698 pp., with 26 illustrations, n.p., cloth ISBN 0-299-21270-X, paper ISBN 0-299-21274-2.

Lynn Garafola, Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, Middletown: Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2005, 464 pp., 25 b/w illus., cloth ISBN 0-8195 6673-X, paper ISBN 0-8195-6674-8.

Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer, Aesthetics in Performance. Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005, ix + 239 pp., with monochrome illustrations, h/b, n.p., ISBN 1-57181-567-8.

Yves Lenoir and Nicolas Standaert (eds.), Les Danses rituelles chinoises d'après Joseph Marie Amiot, Bruxelles and Namur (Belgium): Presses Universitaires de Namur and Editions Lessius, 2005, 326 pp., with monochrome illustrations, p/b, n.p., ISBN 2-87299-135-2 (2-87037-485-2 within Belgium).

Joyce Morgenroth, Speaking of Dance. Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on their Craft, New York and London: Routledge, 2004, ix + 225 pp., illustrated, h/b, n.p. and p/b, £13.99, ISBN 0-415-96798-8 and 0-415-96799-6.

Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis, The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique. A Philosophy and Method of Modern Dance including The Unique Gesture, New York and London: Routledge, 2005, xv + 259 pp., with monochrome illustrations and a DVD, h/b, n.p. and p/b, £21.99, ISBN 0-415-97019-9 and 0-415-97020-2.

Edward Nye (ed.), Sur Quel Pied Danser? Danse et Literature, Actes du Colloque Organisé par Hélène Stafford, Michael Freeman et Edward Nye en Avril 2003 à Lincoln College, Oxford, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005, 330 pp., 66 Euros or $83, paper, ISBN 90-420-1680-6.

Selma Landen Odom and Mary Jane Warner (eds.), Canadian Dance. Visions and Stories, Toronto: Dance Collection Danse Press/es, 2004, 451 pp., copious monochrome illustrations, n.p., ISBN 0-929003-46-2.

Carolyn Soutar, The Real Nureyev. An Intimate memoir of Ballet's Greatest Hero, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St Martin's Press, 2006 (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company, 2004), 192 pp. with fourteen poly- and monochrome illustrations, h/b, $23.95, ISBN 0-312 3409.