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Entries marked with a ♦ contain supporting material, such as films, resource sheets or worksheets which may prove useful to teachers and students of dance. Entries marked ♦♦ contain video material.
Adolphe Adam
Cold (1971)
Charles Amirkhanian
Rainbow Bandit (1974/1977)
Rainbow Ripples (1980)
Dutiful Ducks (1982) ♦
Harold Arden
Thunder (1972)
Daniel Auber
Crown Diamonds (1982)
J.S. Bach
Combines (1972)
Beyond Measure (1996) ♦
Fingerprint (2007)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Evensong (2012)
Harrison Birtwistle
Orpheus Singing and Dreaming (1996) ♦
Secret Theatre (1996)
Johannes Brahms
Waltzes in Disorder (1998) ♦
A Sudden Exit (1998)
Benjamin Britten
Danse fra Pagodernes Rige (1982)
The Brilliant and the Dark (1983)
Lachrymae (1994)
Prelude and Fugue (1994)
Rumours Visions (1994) ♦♦
Sad Eyes (1994)
A Ceremony of Carols (2012) ♦♦
Pierre Boulez
Le Marteau sans Maître (1992)
John Cage
Cycladic Figure (1969)
Winter Music (1970)
Hoagy Carmichael
Stardust (1995)
Shuffle It Right (2008)
Frédéric Chopin
Combines (1972)
Berceuse (1981)
Such Longing (2005)
Lindsay Cooper
Facing Out (1982)
Aaron Copland
A Rugged Flourish (2011) ♦♦
Philip Corner
Split (1974)
Peter Maxwell Davies
The Dufay Collective
Stampede (2002)
Antonin Dvorák
Dumka (1979)
Fats Waller
Sugar (1981)
Michael Finissy
Departing in Yellow (1970)
Nowhere Slowly (1970) ♦
End (1971)
Folk/Traditional Music
Matrix (1968)
Still Moving Still (1969)
Interior (1973)
Swedish Dances (1981)
Gypsy Mixture (2004) ♦♦
Jean Françaix
Balkan Sobranie (1972)
James Fulkerson
Doublework (1978) ♦♦
Denis Gaultier
Light Flooding Into Darkened Rooms (1997) ♦♦
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue (1988)
Philip Glass
Blow Over (2008)
Heinner Goebbels
Red Run (1998) ♦
John Marc Gowans
Cutter (1985) ♦
Strong Language (1987) ♦
George Hamilton Green
Rainbow Ripples (1980)
George Frideric Handel
Pace (1970)
The Signal of a Shake (2000)
Water Music (2001) ♦
Paul Hindemith
Chicago Brass (1983)
Simon Holt
Shadow Realm (1994) ♦
Nigredo (2007)
The Inkspots
Java (1983) ♦
Scott Joplin
Interior (1983)
The Devil in the Detail (2006)
Oliver Knussen
Coursing (1984)
Jo Kondo
Light Flooding Into Darkened Rooms (1997) ♦♦
Isthmus (2012) ♦♦
Buzzing Round the Hunisuccle (2013)
L
Constant Lambert
Elegiac Blue (1979)
Annea Lockwood
Tiger Balm (1972)
Windhover (1972)
Headlong (1973) ♦♦
Lay-Out (1973)
Soft Verges/Hard Shoulder (1974)
Ronald Lopresti
Transit (1968)
Man Jumping
Something in the City (1994)
Stephen Montague
Slow Field (1974)
Zero Through Nine (1975)
Claudio Monteverdi
Belleza Flash (1982)
Voices and Light Footsteps (1984)
Fever (2001)
W.A. Mozart
Night Music (1981)
Fantasie (1982)
Dealing with Shadows (1990)
Slow Airs Almost All (1999) ♦
Unfinished Business (2011) ♦♦
Gordon Mumma
Distant Rebound (1978)
Nigel Osborne
Apollo Distraught (1982)
Wildlife (1984) ♦♦
Mythologies (1985)
Zanza (1986)
Arvo Pärt
Unrest (2001)
Ástor Piazzolla
Touch and Go (2002)
Cole Porter
Unkown Banker Buys Atlantic (1978)
Sergei Prokofiev
Out of the Strong (2010)
Henry Purcell
Breaking Ground (1978)
Home Ground (1978)
Delicious Arbour (1993)
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Brisk Singing (1997) ♦♦
Maurice Ravel
Shimmer (2004) ♦
All Alight (2012)
Steve Reich
Roughcut (1990) ♦♦
Proverb (2006)
Terry Riley
Nowhere Slowly (1970) ♦
Overdrive (2003) ♦
Gioachino Rossini
Shiftwork (1971)
Charles Ruggles
Blueprint (1978)
Érik Satie
Souvenir (1975)
Standard Steps (1975)
Behind the Piano (1979)
Cinema (1989)
David Sawer
Cat's Eye (1992) ♦
Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen (2009) ♦♦
Franz Schubert
Combines (1972)
Blue Schubert Fragments (1972) ♦
Robert Schumann
Strange Company (2001)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Tremor (2000) ♦
Silence
Doublework (1978) ♦♦
Soda Lake (1981) ♦
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Nowhere Slowly (1970) ♦
Igor Stravinsky
Balkan Sobranie (1972)
The Rite of Spring: Pictures of Pagan Russia (1981)
Pulcinella (1987)
Movements from Petrushka (1994) ♦♦
Text
Something to Do (1969) ♦♦
Who is Twyla Tharp? (1971)
Routine Couple (1972)
Standard Steps (1975)
Michael Tippett
Midsummer (1983)
Claude Vivier
Pulau Dewata (1989)
Volumina (1984)
Richard Wagner
After Follows Before (1971)
Simon Waters
Dangerous Liaisons (1985) ♦
Kurt Weill
The Seven Deadly Sins (1978)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Landscape (1980)
The Field of Mustard (1980)
Iannis Xenakis
Okho (1996) ♦
