| Days on Earth: The Dance of Doris Humphrey Revised Edition Contributor(s): Siegel, Marcia B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822313464 ISBN-13: 9780822313465 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1993 Annotation: Days on Earth traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Dance - Modern - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92033367 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.19" W x 9.24" (1.33 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Now available in paperback, Days on Earth--originally published in 1988 (Yale University Press)--traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia B. Siegel follows Humphrey's career from her days with the Denishawn Company (among fellos students like Martha Graham) to her creative partnership with Charles Weidman to her tenure as artistic director of prot g Jos Limon's dance company. Siegel's reconsideration and description of Humphrey's dances, including many that are no longer performed, sheds important light on this pathbreaking dancer/choreographer. |