Reading List: Dance and music - on composition, collaborations, and interactions.

 

We will gradually fill this reading list with references to interesting texts and books.

If you want to contribute with tips of texts or books, please let us know! Send it to info@choreosound.se.

 

Au, Susan (2002/1988) Ballet & modern dance

London: Thames and Hudson. General dance history

 

Blom & Chaplin (1989) The Intimate Act of Choreography

London: Dance Books Tools and methods for choreographing/composing dance

 

Cage, John (1968/1978) Silence – Lectures and Writings London: Marion Boyars A collection of essays and lectures on music and composition

 

Feldman, Morton (2000) Give my Regards to Eighth Street Collected writings of Morton Feldman. Edited by BH Friedman. Cambridge: Exact Change

 

Humphrey, Doris (1997/1958) The Art of Making Dances London: Dance Books Choreographer Humphrey’s perspectives

and tools for choreographing

 

The whole list is available as PDF here