📚 Modern Dance

The refusal of the ballet slipper: Graham, Humphrey and the technique books they left.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject modern 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
	Modern educational dance	Rudolf von Laban	1948	11
	The art of making dances	Doris Humphrey	1959	10
	Modern dance	Jane Winearls	1958	9
	The rise and fall and rise of modern dance	Don McDonagh	1970	9
	Merce Cunningham	David Vaughan	1998	9
	Modern dance forms in relation to the other modern arts	Louis Horst	1961	8
	Dancing modernism / performing politics	Mark Franko	1995	8
	Using the Sky	Deborah Hay	2015	8
	The dancer prepares	James Penrod	1875	7
	The modern dance	John Joseph Martin	1933	7
	The art of making dances	Doris Humphrey	1959	7
	Fifty contemporary choreographers	Martha Bremser	1999	7
	Alien Bodies	Ramsay Burt	2002	7
	Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance	Bruce Baird	2018	7
	The art of the dance	Isadora Duncan	1928	6
	Modern dance in education	Joan Russell	1958	6
	On the count of one	Elizabeth Sherbon	1968	6
	Prime movers	Joseph H. Mazo	1977	6
	Isadora	Maurice Lever	1987	6
	Martha	Agnes De Mille	1991	6
	Dance Appreciation	Amanda Clark	2020	6
	The technique of Isadora Duncan	Irma Duncan	1930	5
	Modern dance in higher education	Alma M. Hawkins	1954	5
	A primer for choreographers	Lois Ellfeldt	1967	5
	Modern dance studies	Jane Winearls	1974	5
	The dance technique of Doris Humphrey and its creative potential	Ernestine Stodelle	1978	5
	Further Steps	Connie Kreemer	1987	5
	Frontiers	Karen Bell-Kanner	2013	5
	Modern Educational Dance	Rudolf Laban	1948	4
	The Borzoi book of modern dance	Margaret Lloyd	1949	4

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

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