ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the act of writing dance history. To write is just one aspect of creating and communicating since dance history commentary or outcomes may well take other forms such as oral or video presentations or actual performances.1 However, since this book is itself a written text on the study of dance history it is the processes culminating in writing, together with the presentation of the various written forms, which are discussed here. Even so, much of what is stated is highly relevant to other modes of communicating about dance history. Outcomes may differ but most of the procedures for dealing with dance history are common.
