This book, Dancing Women, is a companion to the Dancing Men book by the same photographer. It contains images of major dancers of both ballet and modern dance companies, such as New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Martha Graham company, the Paul Taylor company, the Mark Morris company, as well as dancers from the Far East.

Costas' archives are part of the Jerome Robbins Dance Collection of the New York City Public Library. Costas has kept the copyright to his work.