Anthony Shay

The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company: Dancing Diplomats. London: Intellect Books, 2019.

These Boots are Made for Dancing: Dance and Authoritarianism. London: Intellect Book, 2020. Forthcoming.

Ethno Identity Dances for Sex, Fun, and Profit: Choreographing Popular Dances Around the World (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2016).

Co-editor with Barbara Sellers-Young, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (New York Oxford Press, 2016).

The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers: Dancing, Sex, and Entertainment in the Middle East. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Co-editor with J. Fisher, When Men Dance: Dancing Across Cultural Borders (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Dancing Across Borders: The Americans Fascination with Exotic Dance Forms (McFarland & Co., 2008)

Editor, Balkan Dance: Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching (McFarland & Co., 2008)

Choreographing Identities: Ethnicity, Folk Dance, and Festival in North America (McFarland & Co., 2006)

Co-editor with B. Sellers-Young, Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism and Harem Fantasy (Mazda Publishers, 2005)

Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Ensembles, Representation and Power (Hanover and London, Wesleyan University Press, 2002)

Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World (Mazda Publishers, 1999)

“Dance and Human Rights in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia,” in Dignity in Motion: Dance and Human Rights (N. Jackson and T. Shapiro-Phim, eds., Scarecrow Press, 2008)

Books

2022. Solo Improvised Dance in the Persianate World. Edited by AnthonyShay. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda. Forthcoming. 

2021. Authoritarianism and Dance: These Boots are Made for Dancing. London. Intellect Books.

2019. The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company: The First Dancing Diplomats: Spectacle, Russian Nationalism, and the Cultural Cold War. London: Intellect Books. 2019.

2016. Ethno Identity Dances for Sex, Fun, and Profit: Choreographing Popular Dances Around the World. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

2016. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young, Editors. NY: Oxford University Press.

2014. The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers: Sex, Dance, and Entertainment in the Islamic World. Palgrave Macmillan.

2009. When Men Dance: Dancing Across Cultural Borders. Edited by Anthony Shay and Jennifer Fisher. Oxford University Press.

2008. Dancing Across Borders: The American Fascination with Exotic Dances. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. 

2008. Balkan Dance: Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching. Edited by Anthony Shay. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

2006. Choreographing Identities: Ethnicity, Folk Dance, and Festival in North America.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Publishers.

2005. Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism and Harem Fantasy. Edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers. 

2002. Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Ensembles, Representation and Power. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press.

1999. Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999.