By Naomi Goldberg Haas, author of Moving through Life: Essential Lessons of Dance People ask me how I went about writing Moving Through Life: Essential Lessons in Dance. I couldn’t have done it without the help of Mikhaela Mahoney, my steadfast cowriter. Each week, Mikhaela would email me six questions about a period in my life … Continue reading Interview: Naomi Goldberg Haas and Mikhaela Mahoney
Moving Through Life
“Moving through Life highlights Goldberg Haas’s groundbreaking contributions to dance education and her unwavering commitment to making dance accessible to all. Her story is a testament to the profound power of movement. A compelling read that inspires and uplifts. Goldberg Haas reminds us that ANY BODY can dance . . . that bodies MUST dance!”—Jody Gottfried … Continue reading Moving Through Life
Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century
“An absorbing and innovative work. All the essays are of the highest quality, with a strong historical grounding and an imaginative and often surprising ability to make unexpected connections between disciplines, as well as between the nineteenth century and our own time.”—Cara Gargano, Long Island University Bringing together dance and science, two paradigms that explore … Continue reading Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century
Celebrating the Remarkable Life and Spirit of Tanaquil Le Clercq
By Orel Protopopescu, author of Dancing Past the Light: The Life of Tanaquil Le Clercq Today is World Polio Day, which falls during the same month as the birth of the subject of my first biography, the ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq (October 2, 1929–December 31, 2000). Le Clercq contracted poliomyelitis a few weeks after her 27th … Continue reading Celebrating the Remarkable Life and Spirit of Tanaquil Le Clercq
In Conversation: Robert Pranzatelli and Pilobolus Artistic Directors Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent
In Pilobolus: A Story of Dance and Life, author Robert Pranzatelli shares previously untold details about the dance theatre company's history and the creation of its most significant works. Below is an interview Robert Pranzatelli conducted with Renée Jaworski, Pilobolus's executive/co-artistic director, and Matt Kent, the company's artistic director. Jaworski and Kent are not only … Continue reading In Conversation: Robert Pranzatelli and Pilobolus Artistic Directors Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent
Pilobolus
“An important contribution to modern American dance history that will resonate with Pilobolus’ many fans and engender new ones.”—Booklist “Pranzatelli gives behind-the-scenes insight into both the art-making process and the often-grueling business of running a dance company. The book includes photographs, some never before published, that give readers a taste of Pilobolus’s hallmark bodily wizardry. … Continue reading Pilobolus
Dancing the Afrofuture
“Osumare gives readers a deeply personal look into her world as a dancer, choreographer, scholar, professor, activist, and all-around powerhouse. . . . Part self-reflection and part love song to Dunham, this book is a triumphant look at a dancer’s second act as a scholar.”—Library Journal “Osumare returns with yet another striking memoir, expanding our understanding … Continue reading Dancing the Afrofuture
Shaping Dance Canons Reveals the Power of Newspaper Critics Who Write about the Arts
By Kate Mattingly, author of Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity This book is available at a discount price through June 30, 2023. Order here and use code DSA23 at checkout. Have you ever wondered who decides which artists go into our history courses and textbooks? And what criteria are used to establish greatness or canonicity? These questions hit … Continue reading Shaping Dance Canons Reveals the Power of Newspaper Critics Who Write about the Arts
Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity
“Assembled with urgent clarity and razor-sharp analytical force, this thoughtful book provokes a consideration of how it is that some writers make sense, or non-sense, of the worlds of dance we share. Mattingly helps the reader understand that dance criticism is bound up in systems of exclusion and disavowal that must be acknowledged. An offering … Continue reading Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity
In Memory of Stuart Hodes
Stuart Hodes, dancer, choreographer, instructor, dance administrator, and University Press of Florida author, has passed away at age 98. Hodes danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company from 1946 to 1958, and his career spanned more than six decades. After serving as a bomber pilot in World War II, Stuart Hodes started his dance career with Martha Graham, … Continue reading In Memory of Stuart Hodes
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