Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

Rooted Jazz Dance brings together jazz dance scholars, practitioners, choreographers, and educators from across the United States and Canada with the goal of changing the course of practice in future generations. Contributors delve into the Africanist elements within jazz dance and discuss the role of Whiteness, including Eurocentric technique and ideology, in marginalizing African American vernacular dance, which has resulted in the prominence of Eurocentric jazz styles and the systemic erosion of the roots.

Modern Jazz Dance

The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance offers a practical and uncomplicated overview to the multi-layered history, practices and development of jazz dance as a creative and artistic dance form.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeNovember 16, 2019book, in print, technique, instruction, Benjamin Feliksdal

Street Jazz and Other Modern Dance

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeNovember 5, 2019book, out of print, technique, instruction, rita storey

Enseigner la danse jazz (Teaching Jazz Dance)

This book is the result of a work of reflection led by professionals of jazz dance (teachers and creative artists) with the CND. An essential tool for teachers and practitioners of this discipline, it addresses with simplicity and precision the various facets.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeNovember 5, 2019book, in print, technique, Odile Cougoule, Daniel Housset, Patricia Karagozian, pedagogy

The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance

The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance offers a practical and uncomplicated overview to the multi-layered history, practices and development of jazz dance as a creative and artistic dance form.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeNovember 5, 2019book, in print, jazz history, dollie henry, Paul Jenkins, british, technique

Jazz with Luigi: Descriptive Notes

Over two hundred and sixty photographs clearly illustrating the correct way to execute each of Luigi’s exercises, - with notes written so they can be easily understood by any teacher of Tap, Ballet, Modern, or Jazz.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeJune 26, 2019book, instruction, technique, out of print, luigi, classical jazz, classical

Katherine Dunham: Dance and The African Diaspora

Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora makes the argument that Dunham was more than a dancer-she was an intellectual and activist committed to using dance to fight for racial justice.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeMay 12, 2019book, in print, biography, jazz history, Dunham, Katherine Dunham

Stompin' at The Savoy: The Story of Norma Miller

Through extensive interviews with jazz dancer Norma Miller, acclaimed author and filmmaker Alan Govenar captures the vitality, wry humor, and indomitable spirit of an American treasure.

American Jazz Dance: Official Syllabus and Dictionary of Terms

American Jazz Dance: Official Syllabus and Dictionary of Terms published by the National Council of Dance Teacher Organizations is out of print.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeOctober 17, 2018book, out of print, gus giordano, giordano, dictionary, syllabus, terminiology, 1960s

Jazz Dance Collection

Jazz Dance Collection is a collection of labanotation scores from jazz technique exercises and choreography by Chubby Checker, Peter Gennaro, Billie Mahoney, and Walter Nicks. It is available from the Dance Notation Bureau.

Jazz Class with Frank Hatchett

Jazz Class with Frank Hatchett published by Statler Records is out of print.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeSeptember 24, 2018book, out of print, technique, instruction, frank hatchett

Modern Moves: Dancing Race during the Ragtime and Jazz Eras

Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeSeptember 16, 2018book, in print, jazz history, danielle robinson, history, ragtime

Swing Dancing (The American Dance Floor)

Telling a riveting true story of the emergence and development of an American icon, this book traces swing dancing from its origins to its status as a modern-day art form.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeSeptember 16, 2018book, in print, tara stevens, swing dance, lindy hop, history

The Robert Audy Method: Jazz Dancing

Teach yourself the combinations and routines while keeping in shape and learning some disco dancing at the same time!

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeSeptember 16, 2018book, out of print, instruction, 1970s, Robert Audy, recreational, recreation

DC Hand Dance: Capital City Swing

This is a first of its kind literary work, solely dedicated to a discussion and exploration of Washington D.C.'s popular (swing) partner dance style and cultural art form; D.C. Hand Dance.

Jazz Dance Training

The author documents dance creation and jazz dance training according to the method of Swiss choreographer Alain Bernard.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeSeptember 15, 2018book, in print, technique, instruction, german, Dörte Wessel-Therhorn, Switzerland jazz

Class Act: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins

Class Act tells of Cholly's boyhood and coming of age, his entry into the dance world of New York City, his performing triumphs and personal tragedies, and the career transformations that won him gold records and a Tony for choreographing Black and Blue on Broadway.