Masters of Movement: Portraits of America's Great Choreographers - Hardcover

Rose Eichenbaum; Clive Barnes

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9781588341853: Masters of Movement: Portraits of America's Great Choreographers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588341852 ISBN 13: 9781588341853

Publisher: Smithsonian, 2004

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Draws on the experiences of fifty-nine of America's most celebrated choreographers to offer insight into the creative process and the inspirations for some of their most noted achievements, sharing photographic portraits and vignettes based on intimate conversations with such figures as David Parsons and Anna Halprin.

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About the Author:

Rose Eichenbaum's articles and photographs have appeared in many dance magazines. She lives in Encino, CA.

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One might quibble with the title of this volume of photographic portraits and interviews—several of the subjects, like Edward Villella and Ann Reinking, are more notable as dancers than as choreographers. And one might wonder about omissions: the great tap dancer Gregory Hines is here, but why not Savion Glover? Nevertheless, both Eichenbaum’s black-and-white images and her subects’ words will please dance lovers. Her range of styles is broadly inclusive: from ballet (Eliot Feld) to jazz (Luigi), flamenco (Jos� Greco) to music videos (Vincent Patterson, who has choreographed for Michael Jackson and Madonna). Eichenbaum captures the essence of each dancer she profiles: nonagenarian Katherine Dunham tells an audience, "I am still unfulfilled... I am rich and full, but I know there is so much more to learn." Eichenbaum can be delightfully unfawning: her double exposure of a temperamental and uncooperative Mark Morris is, she writes, "a sort of illustrated inflated ego." Other celebrity choreographers include Susan Stroman and Judith Jamison, but many of her subjects will be known only to those who follow the dance scene closely. For those aficionados, this is a lovely gift book.
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