Best Books About Dancers Biography: 40 Titles

The most widely held books on dancers biography in libraries, from Open Library's catalog of 438 titles on the subject. Many have free borrowable digital editions.

Cover of My Life

My Life

Isadora Duncan · 1927

48 editions · free to read
Cover of Dnevnik Vat͡s︡lava Nizhinskogo

Dnevnik Vat͡s︡lava Nizhinskogo

Vaslav Nijinsky · 1936

22 editions
Cover of Theatre Street

Theatre Street

Tamara Karsavina · 1930

19 editions
Cover of Fifty contemporary choreographers

Fifty contemporary choreographers

Martha Bremser, Lorna Sanders · 2005

12 editions
Cover of The Women Who Raised Me

The Women Who Raised Me

Victoria Rowell · 2007

11 editions
Cover of Mes cahiers bleus

Mes cahiers bleus

Liane de Pougy · 1977

10 editions
Cover of Transcending Boundaries

Transcending Boundaries

Donald McKayle · 2001

9 editions
Cover of The Vixen Diaries

The Vixen Diaries

Karrine Steffans · 2007

9 editions
Cover of Mary Wigman

Mary Wigman

Mary Anne Santos Newhall · 2008

8 editions
Cover of Pasha

Pasha

Pasha Kovalev, Natasha Devon · 2013

8 editions
Cover of Isadora

Isadora

Peter Kurth · 2001

8 editions
Cover of Life in motion

Life in motion

Misty Copeland · 2014

8 editions
Cover of Anna Halprin

Anna Halprin

Libby Worth, Helen Poynor · 2004

8 editions
Cover of What's so funny?

What's so funny?

Lotte Goslar · 1998

7 editions
Cover of The Surrender

The Surrender

Toni Bentley · 2004

7 editions · free to read
Cover of The sugarless plum

The sugarless plum

Zippora Karz · 2009

7 editions
Cover of Margot Fonteyn

Margot Fonteyn

Meredith Daneman · 2004

7 editions
Cover of Mao's Last Dancer

Mao's Last Dancer

Li Cunxin · 2005

7 editions
Cover of Come dance with me

Come dance with me

Ninette De Valois · 1957

6 editions
Cover of Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson

Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson

James Haskins, N.R. Mitgang · 1988

6 editions
Cover of Torvill & Dean

Torvill & Dean

Jayne Torvill · 1983

6 editions
Cover of Mao's last dancer

Mao's last dancer

Li, Cunxin · 2003

6 editions
Cover of Somewhere

Somewhere

Amanda Vaill · 2005

6 editions
M

Martha Graham

Alice Helpern · 2013

6 editions
Cover of Choura

Choura

Alexandra Danilova · 1986

6 editions
Cover of Dancing in the vortex

Dancing in the vortex

Vicki Woolf · 2011

6 editions
Cover of Beautiful thing

Beautiful thing

Sonia Faleiro · 2010

6 editions
Cover of Martha Graham

Martha Graham

Don McDonagh · 1973

6 editions
Cover of The Real Nureyev

The Real Nureyev

Carolyn Soutar · 2004

6 editions
Cover of The making of Markova

The making of Markova

Tina Sutton · 2013

6 editions
Cover of Prime movers

Prime movers

Joseph H. Mazo · 1977

6 editions
Cover of No Way Home

No Way Home

Carlos Acosta · 2007

5 editions
Cover of Perpetual motion

Perpetual motion

Otis Stuart · 1995

5 editions
Cover of Merce Cunningham

Merce Cunningham

David Vaughan, Merce Cunningham · 1996

5 editions
Cover of Century Girl

Century Girl

Lauren Redniss · 2006

5 editions
Cover of Stripped

Stripped

Bernadette Barton · 2006

5 editions
Cover of Lucia Joyce

Lucia Joyce

Carol Shloss, Carol Loeb Shloss · 2003

5 editions
A

Anna Sokolow

Larry Warren · 2012

5 editions
D

Dance Masters

Janet Lynn Roseman · 2013

5 editions
F

Frontiers

Karen Bell-Kanner · 2013

5 editions

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