Library & Archive

Keeping you up to date with our resources & collections

< Go Back

ebooks

A number of ebooks have been purchased by NSCD Library for student & staff use

Onsite…

If you are using an NSCD computer, you can view ebooks directly by clicking on the book title links below. If you are prompted for a log in, select the ‘OpenAthens login’ option for Taylor & Francis & the Office 365 option for VLeBooks, then enter the relevant log-on credentials

If you are off-site, prompted to log on or on your mobile/tablet/laptop:

OpenAthens | log into OpenAthens & select Taylor & Francis ebooks from the resource list

Taylor & Francis ebooks | select ‘with shibboleth or openathens’, select ‘Northern School of Contemporary Dance’ from the drop down, then enter your OpenAthens username/password

VLeBooks | select ‘Office 356’’, then sign in using your school log on credentials – the account you use to access the timetable, email, etc.

VLeBooks

Briginshaw, V. (2009) Dance, Space & Subjectivity
Clarke, M. (2020) The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques
Lansley, J. (2011) The Wise Body : Conversations with Experienced Dancers
Machi, L.A. (2016) The Literature Review : Six Steps to Success
Pears, R. (2019) Cite Them Right : the Essential Referencing Guide

We have purchased a range of ebook tiles on the VLeBooks platform for student & staff use. Follow the links and sign in via the Office 365 button on the VLeBooks site, using your school log on credentials – the credentials you use to access the timetable, email, etc. The VLeBooks Quick Reference Guide will help you get the best out of the online ebook reader.

VLEBooks VLEBooks | Office 365

Taylor & Francis ebooks | A

Adair, C. & Burt, R. (2016) British Dance : Black Routes
Abiola, O. (2019) History Dances : Chronicling the History of Traditional Mandinka Dance
Armstrong, F. (2019) Action Research for Inclusive Education
Arlander, A. et al (ed.) (2017) Performance as Research : Knowledge, Methods, Impact

As well as the titles we’ve purchased for your use on the platform, you can view abstracts & excerpts from a wide range of other dance/performance titles. You will also find a range of open access titles on the database.

OpenAthens Taylor & Francis ebooks

Taylor & Francis ebooks | B

Banes, S. (1998) Dancing Women : Female Bodies on Stage
Benjamin, A. (2013) Making an Entrance
Bläsing, B., Puttke, M., Schack, T. (ed) (2019) The Neurocognition of Dance
Bleeker, M. (ed.) (2016) Transmission in Motion : the Technologizing of Dance
Bogart, A. (2001) A Director Prepares : Seven Essays on Art & Theatre
Bremser, M. (ed.) (2010) Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
Brinson, P. (1991) Dance as Education : Towards a National Dance Culture
Bryon, E. (2014) Integrative Performance : Practice & Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer
Bryon, E. (2017) Performing Interdisciplinarity : Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries Through an Active Aesthetic
Burridge, S. & Nielsen, C. (2017) Dance, Access & inclusion : Perspectives on Dance , Young People & Change
Burrows, J. (2010) A Choreographer’s Handbook
Burt, R. (2006) Judson Dance Theater ; Performative Traces
Burt, R. (2007) The Male Dancer
Butterworth. J. & Wildschut, L. (ed.) (2014) Contemporary Choreography : a Critical Reader
Butterworth, J. (2011) Dance Studies : the Basics

As well as the titles we’ve purchased for your use on the platform, you can view abstracts & excerpts from a wide range of other dance/performance titles. You will also find a range of open access titles on the database.

OpenAthens Taylor & Francis ebooks

Taylor & Francis ebooks | C-G

Camerino, O. et al (ed.) (2012) Mixed Methods Research in Movement Sciences : Case Studies in Sport, Physical Education & Dance
Capel, S. & Whitehead, M. (ed.) (2015) Learning to Teach Physical Education in Secondary School
Chakravorty, P. & Gupta, N. (2010) Dance Matters : Performing India on Local & Global Stages
Chakravorty, P. & Grupta, N. (ed.) (2018) Dance Matters Too : Markets, Memories & Identities
Claid, E. (2006) Yes? No! Maybe… : Seductive Ambiguity in Dance
Copeland, R. (2004) Merce Cunningham : the Modernising of Modern Dance
Dess, N.K. (2020) A Multidisciplinary Approach to Embodiment
Dreyer, K. (2019) Dance & Light : the Partnership Between Choreography & Lighting Design
Dunbar, J. (ed.) (2000) Jose Limon : An Artist Re-Viewed
Egert, G. (2019) Moving Relation : Touch in Contemporary Dance
Evans, M., Thomaidis, K. & Worth, L. (2019) Time & Performer Training
Fleming, M. (2012) The Arts in Education
Foellmer, S., Schmidt, M., Schmitz, C. (ed.) (2019) Performing Arts in Transition
Foster, S. (2010) Choreographing Empathy : Kinesthesia in Performance
Franco, S. & Nordera, M. (2008) Dance Discourses : Keywords in Dance Research
Franko. M. (ed.) (2018) Choreographing Discourses
Friedler, S.E. & Glazer, S.B. (ed.) (1998) Dancing Female : Lives & Issues of Women in Contemporary Dance
Giersdorf, J. & Wong, Y. (ed.) (2019) The Routledge Dance Studies Reader
Greenberg, K. et al (2019) The Phenomenological Heart of Teaching & Learning : Theory, Research, & Practice in Higher Education

As well as the titles we’ve purchased for your use on the platform, you can view abstracts & excerpts from a wide range of other dance/performance titles. You will also find a range of open access titles on the database.

OpenAthens Taylor & Francis ebooks

Taylor & Francis ebooks | H-L

Hackney, P. (1999). Making Connections
Hilevaara, K. & Orley, E. (ed.) (2018) The Creative Critic : Writing as/about Practice
Hill. A. (ed.) (2016) The Psychology of Perfectionism in Sport, Dance & Exercise
hooks, b. (2014) Ain’t I a Woman
hooks, b. (2013) Teaching Community
hooks, b. (2013) Teaching Critical Thinking
hooks, b. (1994) Teaching to Transgress
Hunter, V. (ed.) Moving Sites : Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance
Hutchenson Guest, A. (2003) The Green Table : the Labanotation Score, texts, Photographs & Music
Iyer, A. (ed.) (1998) South Asian Dance
Johnson, R. (2017) Embodied Social Justice
Kapadocha, C. (2020) Somatic Voices in Performance, Research & Beyond
Kemp, R. & McConachie, B. (ed.) (2018) The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance & Cognitive Science
Kirschner, P.A. & Henrick, C. (2020) How learning happens : Seminal Works in Educational Psychology & What They Mean in Practice
Leigh, J. (ed.) (2018) Conversations on Embodiment across Higher Education : teaching, practice & research
Lepecki, A. (2006) Exhausting Dance
Louis, M. & Nikolais, A. (2005) The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique

As well as the titles we’ve purchased for your use on the platform, you can view abstracts & excerpts from a wide range of other dance/performance titles. You will also find a range of open access titles on the database.

OpenAthens Taylor & Francis ebooks

Taylor & Francis ebooks | M-R

McFee, G. (1992) Understanding Dance
McKayle, D. (2002) Transcending Boundaries : My Dancing Life
McPherson (2018) Making Video Dance
Madhavan, A. (ed.) (2017) Women in Asian Performance
Moreno, J. (2020) Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins
Nakajima, N. & Brandstetter, G. (2017) The Aging Body in Dance : a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Newhall, M. (2017) Mary Wigman
Nichol, C. & Uytterhoeven, L. (2017) What Moves You? : Shaping Your Dissertation in Dance
Nielsen, C. & Burridge, S. (ed.) (2015) Dance Education Around the World : Perspectives on Dance, Young People & Change
Overby, L., Shanahan, O. & Young, G. (2019) Undergraduate Research in Dance : a Guide for Students
Partsch-Bergsohn, I. (1994) Modern Dance in Germany
Plate, L. & Smelik, A. (ed.) (2013) Performing Memory in Art & Popular Culture
Riggio, M.C. (ed.) (2004) Carnival : Culture in Action – the Trinidad Experience
Robinson, J. (1999) Modern Dance in France : an Adventure 1920-1970

As well as the titles we’ve purchased for your use on the platform, you can view abstracts & excerpts from a wide range of other dance/performance titles. You will also find a range of open access titles on the database.

OpenAthens Taylor & Francis ebooks

Taylor & Francis ebooks | S-Z

Sampaio, F.X.A. (2020) Lighting Dance : a Study of Technical, Philosophical, & Psychological Shadows
Scofield, C. & Start, L. ( 2018) Psychology for Dancers
Simmel, L. & Kraft, E. (2017) Nutrition for Dancers
Solomon, J. & Solomon, R. (ed.) (1998) East Meets West in Dance : Voice in a Cross-cultural Dialogue
Spatz, B. (2015) What a Body Can Do : Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research
Spier, S. (ed.) (2011) William Forsythe & the Practice of Choreography : It Starts from Any Point
Szymajda, J. (ed.) (2014) European Dance Since 1989 : Communitas & the Other
Thobani, S. (2017) Indian Classical Dance & the Making of Postcolonial National Identities
Thomas, H. (1995) Dance, Modernity & Culture : Explorations in the Sociology of Dance
Thomas, H. & Prickett, S. (2019) The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies
Topaz, M. (ed.) (1996) Alvin Ailey
Veroli, P. & Vinay, G. (ed.) (2017) Music-Dance : Sound & Motion in Contemporary Discourse
Wallbank, A.J. (2018) Academic Writing & Dyslexia : a Visual Guide to Writing at University
Walker, M.E. (2016) India’s Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective
Walter, C. (2015) Arts Management : an Entrepreneurial Approach
Worth, L & Vardimon, J. (2017) Jasmin Vardimon’s Dance Theatre : Movement, Memory & Metaphor
Zarrilli, P. (2000) Kathakali Dance-Drama

As well as the titles we’ve purchased for your use on the platform, you can view abstracts & excerpts from a wide range of other dance/performance titles. You will also find a range of open access titles on the database.

OpenAthens Taylor & Francis ebooks

Dawsonera

Dawsonera went into administration in August 2020, access to the 17 titles provided via the platform is no longer available. Where possible replacement ebook versions have been purchased on the Taylor & Francis and VLeBooks ebook platforms. Print copies of all the titles remain available in the library collections.

Bremser, M. (1999) Fifty contemporary choreographers, Routledge
Briginshaw, V. A. (2001) Dance, space and subjectivity, Palgrave
Burrows, J. (ndg) A choreographer’s handbook, Routledge
Burt, R. (2006) Judson Dance Theater, Routledge
Carter, A. (ndg) The Routledge dance studies reader, Routledge
Copeland, R. (2004) Merce Cunningham, Routledge
Dodds, S. (ndg) Dance on screen, Palgrave
Haas, J. G. (2010) Dance anatomy, Human Kinetics
Hackney, P. (1999) Making connections, Routledge
Hanna, J.L. (2006) Dancing for health, Altamira
Hawkins, E. (2004) The Body is a clear place, Dance Horizons
Katan, E. (2016) Embodied philosophy in dance, Palgrave
Lansley, J. & Early, F. (2011) The wise body : conversations with experienced dancers, Intellect Books
Lepecki, A. (2006) Exhausting dance, Routledge
McFee, G. (1992) Understanding dance, Routledge
Minton, S.C. & Faber, R. (2016) Thinking with the dancing brain, Rowman & Littlefield
Shurr, G. & Yocom, R.D. (2004) Modern Dance Techniques & Teaching, Dance Horizons

Dawsonera

Free ebooks

You can access some ebooks free online, we’ll be adding those titles we think you might find useful here…

Library links

Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr | Instagram

Library Catalogue

Click & Collect | Drop & Go

CDD Libraries