The Dancer Within
Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers
Published on 1. December 2013
264 pages
978-0-8195-7488-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Dancer Within is a collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and entertainers, many of them world-famous. Well-known on the concert stage, on Broadway, in Hollywood musicals, and on television, the personalities featured in this book speak with extraordinary candor about all stages of the dancer's life--from their first dance class to their signature performances and their days of reflection on the artist's life. The Dancer Within reveals how these artists triumphed, but also how they overcame adversity, including self-doubt, injuries, and aging. Most of all, this book is about the courage, commitment, love, and passion of these performers in their quest for artistic excellence. The reader will quickly realize that "the dancer within" is a metaphor of the human spirit.
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ROSE EICHENBAUM is an award-winning photographer and author of Masters of Movement: Portraits of America's Great Choreographers (2004). Her work has appeared in Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, and the Los Angeles Times, and her photographs are featured in a Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit, The Dancer Within, opening in April 2008. She lives in Encino, California. ARON HIRT-MANHEIMER is the author and editor of numerous articles, magazines, and books. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Content
- Intro
- The Dancer Within
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Yuriko (Anemiya Kikuchi)
- Barrie Chase
- Ethan Stiefel
- Leslie Caron
- Fernando Bujones
- Leonard Crofoot
- Cynthia Gregory
- Jacques d'Amboise
- Dudley Williams
- Mary Hinkson
- Bill Evans
- Brenda Bufalino
- Chet Walker
- Donna McKechnie
- Mitzi Gaynor
- Joe Tremaine
- Chita Rivera
- Russ Tamblyn
- Rita Moreno
- Natalia Makarova
- Shirley MacLaine
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Liza Minnelli
- Joel Grey
- Ben Vereen
- Lori Belilove
- Rasta Thomas
- Marine Jahan
- Robert La Fosse
- Gemze de Lappe
- James Mitchell
- Paula Kelly
- Martine van Hamel
- Desmond Richardson
- Jean Butler
- Peter Boal
- Marge Champion
- Eiko and Koma
- Julio Bocca
- Mr. Wiggles (Steffan Clemente)
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
