Library & Archive

Access

A number of ebooks have been purchased by NSCD Library for student & staff use. These are provided via two platforms, Taylor & Francis ebooks & VLeBooks, we also provide links to a range of open access ebooks available on the web…

Onsite…

If you are using an NSCD computer, you can view ebooks directly by clicking on the book title links below or on the library catalogue. If you are prompted for a log in, select the ‘OpenAthens login’ option for Taylor & Francis & VLeBooks, select ‘Northern School of Contemporary Dance’ from the dropdown & then enter the relevant log-on credentials (your school login details).

Off-site…

• OpenAthens | log into OpenAthens & select Taylor & Francis or VLeBooks ebooks from the resource list
• Taylor & Francis ebooks | click on the ‘login’ icon, select ‘with shibboleth or openathens’, select ‘Northern School of Contemporary Dance’ from the drop down, then enter your OpenAthens username/password
• VLeBooks | select ‘OpenAthens’ button, select ‘Northern School of Contemporary Dance’ from the drop down, then enter your OpenAthens username/password

Your OpenAthens log in username/password are the same as the account you use to access your school email.

VLeBooks Taylor & Francis ebooks

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 | 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 | 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

Open Access ebooks

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

• Allegue, L. et al (ed) (2009) Practice-as-research in performance & screen
• Bench, H. (2020) Perpetual Motion : Dance, Digital Cultures, & the Common
• Brannigan, E. (2023) The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept & Material in Contemporary Art
• Diouf, M. & Nwankwo, I.K. (ed) (2010) Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World : Rituals & Remembrances
• Duncan, I. (1966) Duncan Dancer : an Autobiography
• Griffiths, L.E. (2014) Dance and The Archival Body: Knowledge, Memory and Experience in Dance Revival Processes
• Jeffers, A. & Moriarty, G. (ed) (2018) Culture, Democracy & the Right to Make Art : the British Community Arts Movement
• Klein, G. & Noeth, S. (2011) Emerging Bodies
• Mills, D. (2017) Dance & politics : Moving beyond boundaries
• Njoku, R.C. (2020) West African Masking Traditions & Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals : History, Memory, & Transnationalism
• Sherman, J. (1979) The Drama of Denishawn Dance
• Sorell, W. (1969) Hanya Holm : the Biography of an Artist
• Sörgel, S. (2007) Dancing Postcolonialism : the National Dance Company of Jamaica
• Stuart Fisher, A. & Thompson, J. (2020) Performing Care
• Wigman, M. (1966) The Language of Dance
• Wigman, M. (1975) The Mary Wigman Book : her Writings
• Wilcox, E. (2018) Revolutionary Bodies : Chinese Dance & the Socialist Legacy
• Zamorska, M.A. (2018) Intense Bodily Presence : Practices of Polish Butō Dancers