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The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance

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Quintessential Bellydance

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The Art of Dance Composition

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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Hofesh Shechter

The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies

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Ballroom Dancing

Midnight at the Crossroads

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British Dance: Black Routes

The Encyclopedia of World Ballet

The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance

La Fisica in punta di piedi

Looking at Contemporary Dance