Bücher der Reihe Choreography and Dance Studies Series

This lively collection of articles on dancer and choreographer Jose Limon provides a valuable insight into the life and times of the important Mexican American choreographer.

Illustrated by Lotte Goslar, this book provides, through her sketch-like texts, an account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her observations of daily human foibles and vanities are interspersed with her interactions with major figures.

Drawing on material from nearly 100 interviews, Warren has created an assessment of the life and work of Anna Sokolow, the choreographer of American dance, who set her work on more than 70 dance companies, and pioneered the development of a personal movement approach.

The daily life of Bonnie Bird, an American modern dancer in the 1930s, is revealed in this book. The author shares her interviews with Bonnie Bird and the intimate letters that Bonnie Bird wrote to her family in Seattle from New York when she was working with Martha Graham between 1931 and 1937.

A collection of interviews and research aimed at understanding how women in dance relate to, and create dance through institutions, individual and group choreography and education. Aims to understand feminism in the context of the practical and theoretical dance issues.

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This triple biography encompasses the Christensen brothers' Mormon pioneer heritage, the circumstances that led them to enter vaudeville with a ballet act, and the rise and fall, especially in the American West, of the dance companies with which they were associated for nearly six decades.