📚 Dance

Movement as art and culture — technique and form, and the history of bodies in rhythm, from court ballet to modern and street forms.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject dance in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A complete practical guide to the art of dancing	Thomas Hillgrove	1863	18
	Ballroom dancing	Alex Moore	1936	18
	Eyewitness	Michael Tambini	1995	17
	English dancing master	Playford, John	1653	16
	Classical dances and costumes of India	Kay Ambrose	1950	14
	Your move	Ann Hutchinson Guest	1983	14
	The Scottish country dance book	Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.	1900	13
	A dictionary of ballet terms	Leo Kersley	1952	12
	Orchésographie	Thoinot Arbeau	1589	11
	Folk-dances and singing games	Elizabeth Burchenal	1909	11
	Pre-classic dance forms	Louis Horst	1937	11
	Modern educational dance	Rudolf von Laban	1948	11
	Dance technique and injury prevention	Justin Howse	1988	11
	Learning about dance	Nora Ambrosio	1994	10
	Weltgeschichte des Tanzes	Curt Sachs	1937	9
	How to become a good dancer	Murray, Arthur	1938	8
	The book of the dance	Agnes De Mille	1963	8
	The dance in India	Enakshi Bhavnani	1965	8
	Traditions of Indian classical dance	Mohan Khokar	1979	8
	Technique of Latin dancing	Walter Laird	1972	7
	The Morris and sword dances of England	Arthur Peck	1964	6
	Prime movers	Joseph H. Mazo	1977	6
	Danzas tradicionales paraguayas	Celia Ruiz Rivas de Domínguez	1974	5
	Winter season	Toni Bentley	1982	5
	Dancing	Gerald Jonas	1992	5
	Capoeira	Nestor Capoeira	1992	5
	Appreciating Dance	Harriet R. Lihs	1998	5
	Laban for All	Jean Newlove	2003	5
	World history of the dance	Curt Sachs	1937	4
	Philippine folk dances	Francisca Reyes Aquino	1953	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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