The most popular dance books of 2025

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 2025.

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The Osmonds
Cover of The Osmonds

The Osmonds

Mason N. Lucas

Published 2025

123 pages

Sleight of Hand
Cover of Sleight of Hand

Sleight of Hand

Edwin Thomas Sachs

Published 2025

312 pages

Performance research methods

Performance research methods

Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Laura Karreman, Open Book Publishers

Published 2025

456 pages