Through the eyes of a dancer : selected writings /
Perron, Wendy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The sixties. One route from ballet to postmodern -- The seventies. Barbara Lloyd (Dilley) -- Followable dancing : Mary Overlie and David Gordon -- People improvisation : Grand Union -- Consuming determination : Lucinda Childs -- Older is better -- Exporting SoHo -- Improvisation : the man who gets away with it, radio host James Irsay -- Only an illusion : on street performers -- Starting from nothing : Michael Moschen -- Masters of surprise : Mikhail Baryshnikov and Fred Astaire -- Interview with Susan Sontag : on writing, art, feminism, life, and death -- Dumb art : beautiful but not too bright -- The eighties. Bausch, Brecht, and sex : Kontakthof by Pina Bausch -- The structure of seduction -- Book review : The intimate act of choreography -- The holes in Tin quiz : notes on my duet -- Containing differences in time : My choreographic process -- Shoot for the moon, but don't aim too hard : On J.D. Salinger -- The nineties. Beware the egos of critics -- Trisha Brown on tour -- American Dance Guild concert review -- Love is the crooked thing : Paris Opera Ballet -- Book review : Jill Johnston's Marmalade me reissued -- Looking back on the "embodiment of ecstasy": Sara Rudner -- The power of stripping down to nothingness : the Butoh Diaspora -- The new Russia : Sasha Pepelyaev's Kinetic Theatre -- From 2000 to 2004. Seeing Balanchine, watching Whelan -- Merce at Martha@Mother : Richard Move -- Moving, joyfully and carefully, into old age -- An improbable pair on a quest into the past : Baryshnikov and Rainer -- Katherine Dunham : one-woman revolution -- Martha Clarke : between terror and desire -- Misha's new passion : Judson Dance Theater -- Living with AIDS : six dancers share their stories -- Irina loves Maxim : ABT's Russian couple -- Twyla Tharp : still pushing the boundaries -- The struggle of the black artist to dance freely -- A dance turns darker, its maker more American : Patricia Hoffbauer -- Paying heed to the mysteries of Trisha Brown -- East (coast) meets west (coast) : Eiko & Koma collaborate with Anna Halprin -- Bill T. Jones searches for beauty, and a new home -- Snip, snip : dance, too, needs editing -- Batsheva Dance Company : Naharin's Virus -- Kirov classics hit and miss -- Way up high, soaring, floating, diving, dancing : Joanna Haigood -- Russia makes room for contemporary dance -- Wendy Whelan : the edgy ballerina --
From 2004 to 2007. Tere O'Connor Dance -- Lori Belilove and the Isadora Duncan Dance Company -- Susan Marshall & company -- Stan won't dance -- Urban bush women -- Miguel Gutierrez and the powerful people -- American Ballet Theatre -- Book Review: Feelings are facts: a life, by Yvonne Rainer -- New York City Ballet: winter season 2007 -- Enchanted by Cuba -- From 2007 to 2012. A brave, illuminating, terrific new book : Carolyn Brown on Cunningham and Cage -- New York City Ballet : winter season 2008 -- New works Festival : San Francisco Ballet -- Akram Khan's Bahok -- Flamenco master in silence : was Israel Galvan improvising? -- Trey McIntyre project -- Pacific Northwest Ballet : all Tharp -- Boston Ballet : Diaghilev's Ballets Russes centennial celebration -- Spoleto Festival (Festival dei 2Mondi) -- The Forsythe Company : decreation -- Twyla's new musical flies, but . . . -- International exposure : the Tel Aviv Festival -- Lemi Ponifasio -- Necessary weather (revival) : Dana Reitz and Sara Rudner -- Why don't women make dances like that any more? -- Blogging about the process of choreography, ugh! -- The times they are a-changin' -- Biennale de la Danse de Lyon -- Ralph Lemon -- Crystal Pite -- Politeness : is it crucial to the future of ballet? -- National Ballet of Canada -- Is appropriation the same as stealing and why is it happening more now? -- Is there a blackout on Black swan's dancing? -- Putting the Black swan blackout in context -- Can a floor give you spiritual energy? Ask Jared Grimes -- Eiko & Koma : the unnatural side of communing with nature -- Merce's other legacy -- A debate on Snark -- The Joffrey Ballet.
Dance.
Dance criticism.
Dance