Dance history, my first fandom! I haven't been keeping up with it, so just off the top of my head...
Ivor Guest wrote several books on 19th century ballet; the title I can think of is _Fanny Elssler_, but I know he also did surveys of the Romantic ballet in England and France. (Unless the French book was about the Second Empire; I'm pretty sure I learned about the sad death of Emma Livry from him.)
Deborah Jowitt, _Time and the Dancing Image_, read it in grad school, adored it. (but grad school was ~15 yrs ago?)
I forget the author of the next one: _Dance is a Contact Sport_, is the title; sports(?) journalist embedded in the NYCB for a year in the '70s.
Solomon Volkov interviewed Balanchine; I don't know what the English title is, but the French one is _Conversations avec George Balanchine_.
Arlene Croce, dance critic for the New Yorker, has a couple of collections out.
Wendy Hilton wrote the definitive modern book on French Baroque dance: _Dance of Court and Theater_. (Unless it's been supplanted since she died, but I kind of doubt it. It's the kind of work "magisterial" was invented to describe.)
Most of my tap history came from videos and word of mouth, not books, but I can poke around the Internet and see if I can remember titles. The only one I'm sure of is _No Maps on My Taps_, which is mesmerizing.
Um, yeah. I do go on, don't I? If I think of anything else, I'll let you know....
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Ivor Guest wrote several books on 19th century ballet; the title I can think of is _Fanny Elssler_, but I know he also did surveys of the Romantic ballet in England and France. (Unless the French book was about the Second Empire; I'm pretty sure I learned about the sad death of Emma Livry from him.)
Deborah Jowitt, _Time and the Dancing Image_, read it in grad school, adored it. (but grad school was ~15 yrs ago?)
I forget the author of the next one: _Dance is a Contact Sport_, is the title; sports(?) journalist embedded in the NYCB for a year in the '70s.
Solomon Volkov interviewed Balanchine; I don't know what the English title is, but the French one is _Conversations avec George Balanchine_.
Arlene Croce, dance critic for the New Yorker, has a couple of collections out.
Wendy Hilton wrote the definitive modern book on French Baroque dance: _Dance of Court and Theater_. (Unless it's been supplanted since she died, but I kind of doubt it. It's the kind of work "magisterial" was invented to describe.)
Autobiographies are hit and miss, of course. I loved Roland Petit's _J'ai dansé sur les flots_, and I think I heard he'd written a second one, but I haven't seen it. Paul Taylor, _Private Domain_. Oh, Margot Fonteyn wrote hers, but it's nothing like de Mille's _Speak to Me, Dance with Me_. I haven't read _Dance to the Piper_, embarrassingly enough!
Most of my tap history came from videos and word of mouth, not books, but I can poke around the Internet and see if I can remember titles. The only one I'm sure of is _No Maps on My Taps_, which is mesmerizing.
Um, yeah. I do go on, don't I? If I think of anything else, I'll let you know....