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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeSeptember 9, 2018book, in print, biography, jazz history, autobiography, motown, tap, cholly atkins, jaqui malone

Jazz Dance Teaching Manual

Jazz Dance Teaching Manual by Tom Ralabate is published by the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeSeptember 9, 2018book, in print, technique, instruction, beginners, fosse, debra mcwaters, ben vereen, bob fosse

Image of Perfection: The Freestyle Dance of Matt Mattox

An analysis of the technique of Matt Mattox.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeAugust 29, 2018book, in print, essays, bob boross, jazz history, matt mattox, frank hatchett

DanceWriting: Short Hand for Modern and Jazz Dance

Valerie Sutton’s notation methods of modern and jazz dance.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeAugust 29, 2018book, in print, instruction, theory, notation, valerie sutton

Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era

Scholarly writing on AfricanAmerican performers in vaudeville era by by one of the foremost African American dance critics of our day.

The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool

Written by Brenda Dixon Gottschild, one of the foremost American dance critics of our day, The Black Dancing Body is a key to the ineffable rhythms and movement of dance in America.

Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts

This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture.

Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance

Bringing together issues of race, gender, politics, history, and dance, Dancing Many Drums ranges widely, including discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham’s controversial ballet about lynching, Southland.

Aesthetic of the Cool

This book brings together all Thompson’s writings on the cool, some hitherto unpublished, many in out-of-print and hard-to-find publications.

The Fosse Style

Debra McWaters has put together the ultimate visual and verbal guide to Fosse's way of dancing, choreographing, and teaching.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeAugust 29, 2018book, in print, technique, instruction, beginners, fosse, debra mcwaters, ben vereen, bob fosse

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