Authors:

• Brenda Dixon Gottschild
• Sondra Fraleigh: Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy
• K.W. Asante
• Ananya Chatterjea: Butting Out: Reading Resistive Choreographies Through Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha
• Mark Franko: Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics
• Gus Giordano: Anthology of American Jazz Dance
• Doris Humphrey: The Art of Making Dances
• Ann Dils: Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader
• Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: The Phenomenology of Dance
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology of Perception
• Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• Bettina L. Love: We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
• Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
• Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

Articles about movement embodiment:

• Dancing the Diaspora: Discovering the Influence of Traditional and Tribal African Dance in the History of African-American Social and Concert Dance in the Caribbean and the United States” by Kerri-Noelle Humphrey
• “Hula Space and its Transmutations,” Joann W. Kealiinohomoku
• The Neurocognition of Dance: Mind, Movement and Motor Skills edited by Bettina Bläsing, Martin Puttke, and Thomas Schack
• “Neurocognitive Control in Dance: A Review” by Bettina Bläsing, Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Emily S. Cross, Corinne Jola, Juliane Honisch, and Catherine J. Stevens

Movies: 

Many dance scenes are available on YouTube.

• African Dance: Sand, Drum, and Shostakovich (2002)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• Sweet Charity (1969)
• Cabaret (1972)
• Stormy Weather (1943)
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• Saturday Night Fever (1977)
• West Side Story (1961)
• Carlos Saura ‘s Flamenco Trilogy: Blood Wedding (1981), Carmen (1983) and El amor brujo (1986)
• Carmen Jones (1954)