The most popular dance books of 2024

Books about dance move between the studio and the stage. Ballet companies, rival dancers, demanding teachers and bodies pushed to the limit provide the drama. Novels and memoirs here are about discipline and beauty, and about what people give up for a few perfect minutes. This list shows the ones first published in 2024.

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Uncle Tino
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Uncle Tino

Jane Va'afusuaga

Published 2024

36 pages

Yvonne Rainer
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Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer, Emily Coates, RoseLee Goldberg, Jill Johnston, Kathy Noble

Published 2024

160 pages

Red Bird Danced
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Red Bird Danced

Dawn Quigley

2024 · 2026 edition

176 pages

Meredith Monk
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Meredith Monk

Timothy Morton, Rick Moody, Beatrix Ruf, Andrea Lissoni, Adam Shatz, Teresa Retzer

Published 2024

400 pages