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Dance (New, Used & Rental Textbooks › Performing Arts, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Dance (New, Used & Rental Textbooks › Performing Arts, Books), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $44.98, median 9 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 27/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $33.81 – $64.33 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 6% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 11% of the parent category Performing Arts (84), one of the easier corners under it.
- At $44.98 its median price beats 95% of Books categories, leaving more margin per copy.
- Its review barrier is lower than in 84% of Books categories: the median best seller has only 9 reviews, so new books can chart with few.
Top 10 Dance best sellers
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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery
by Eric Franklin
- List rank#1
- Price$56.95
- Rating4.6
- Reviews33
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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery
by Eric N. Franklin
- List rank#2
- Price-
- Rating4.7
- Reviews222
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When Words Are Inadequate: Modern Dance and Transnationalism in China (OXFORD STUDIES IN DANCE THEORY SERIES)
by Nan Ma
- List rank#3
- Price$39.94
- Reviews-
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First Steps in Teaching Creative Dance to Children
by Mary Joyce
- List rank#4
- Price$64.11
- Rating4.5
- Reviews35
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Ballet: Beyond the Basics
by Sandra Noll Hammond
- List rank#5
- Price$32.95
- Rating4.8
- Reviews23
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The Dance/Movement Therapy of Blanche Evan
by Bonnie Bernstein
- List rank#6
- Price$39.99
- Reviews-
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The Harmonic Structure of Movement, Music, and Dance According to Rudolf Laban: An Examination of His Unpublished Writings and Drawings
by Carol-Lynne Moore
- List rank#7
- Price-
- Rating5.0
- Reviews2
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Blue Sky Body: Thresholds for Embodied Research
by Ben Spatz
- List rank#8
- Price$44.79
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4
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Reimagining Dance on Screen: A Practical Guide to Dance-Filmmaking (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Mitchell Rose
- List rank#9
- Price$57.99
- Reviews-
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The Intimate Act of Choreography
by Lynne Anne Blom
- List rank#10
- Price$19.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews171
FAQ
Is Dance a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 27/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 9 reviews and sells for $44.98.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Dance?
The median best seller has 9 reviews, and 94% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Dance best sellers cost?
The median price is $44.98; half of the best sellers are priced between $33.81 and $64.33.
Can new books break into Dance?
6% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.