The Wise Body
Subtitle: Conversations with Experienced Dancers
Publisher: Intellect Ltd
Published: Sep 26, 2011
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781841504186
Description: "UK choreographers Jacky Lansley and Fergus Early interview twelve distinguished dancers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines who continue to enjoy exceptionally long performing careers. They discuss early training, memorable performing experiences, the things that sustain them, and the pleasures and challenges of being 'older' dancers in a profession in which youth is often idolized. Taken as a whole, the interviews, with their long and international perspective, invite a radical reappraisal of the development of modern and postmodern dance and their varied cultural starting points give rise to serious questions about the meaning of dance as an art form"--Back cover.
Notes: Source title: The Wise Body: Conversations with Experienced Dancers