Life as a Modern Dancer

Category: Books

  • A New Book for K-12 Teaching Artists

    Math for Dance, and Dance for Math By Malke Rosenfeld In my new book, Math on the Move: Engaging Students in Whole Body Learning, I bring together the dancing body and mathematics, to the benefit of learning in both disciplines. As a percussive dancer my preferences are traditional Canadian step dance from Cape Breton Island…

  • Wrap Up: Dance, Somatics, and Creativity Books Published in 2016

    There are lots of great additions for your bookshelf, class syllabus, and personal reading list this year. If any titles were missed, please leave a note in the comments section below. The Art of Movement (Photography) by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory British Dance: Black Routes (Reprint Edition) by Christy Adair and Ramsay Burt Contemporary…

  • New Book on Trisha Brown

    Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art By Susan Rosenberg The process of writing this book on Trisha Brown’s work was joyful and daunting. Trisha created nearly 100 choreographies, 6 operas, a single ballet – as well as a body of graphic work that has earned recognition in numerous exhibitions. With an oeuvre of such breadth,…

  • Thinking with the Dancing Brain: Embodying Neuroscience (New Book)

      Thinking with the Dancing Brain: Embodying Neuroscience[1] A New Book by Sandra Minton and Rima Faber Blog post by Rima Faber When Sandra Minton and I first discussed co-authoring a book on research about dance and the brain, I thought, “What research? There isn’t enough research to fill a book!” Notwithstanding Anne Green Gilbert’s…

  • The Creative Formula: A New Book for Choreographers and Creatives

    By Holly Shaw How many times have you set out to make a new piece and instead found yourself staring blankly at your own concerned face in the empty studio mirror, throwing out a few limp turns in an attempt to drum up some inspiration?   This has been me so so many times. When…

  • Deborah Hay’s Latest Book: Using the Sky

    I just finished Deborah Hay's latest book, Using the Sky: A Dance. Routledge published the paperback version in 2016. I know Deborah as a famous figure within the Judson Church crowd. I do not know her by face. My only experience of her work, experienced live, was probably 10 to 12 years ago here in…

  • A Book I Have Waited 20 Years For….

    Hiking the Horizontal by Liz Lerman As Liz Lerman writes in the prologue (xvii): "Keep one foot in the professional world and one in the community," I would say. "I am not fragmented. I live like this because the world is fragmented. I am just being the whole person that I want to be." I truly…

  • A Choreographic Mind by Susan Rethorst

    Arrival rests on the idea that the dance's premise and content will be made manifest through the making, that I will arrive at where I want to go, at what I want to be doing with this dance by following the dance's lead. It rests on the belief that the ideas that are in me…

  • Artist Profile #123: Elizabeth McPherson (New York, NY)

    Hometown: Nashville, TN Current city: New York, NY Age: 49 Attended an arts high school? I attended a college prep school (Harpeth Hall) in Nashville that also has a strong arts program, but I took more professionally oriented technique classes and performance opportunities outside of school, first at the Metro Parks Dance Division and then…

  • A New Journal for College Level Technique Courses (Download It for Free)

    From Blog Director Jill Randall: I am pleased to share with you the new journal I designed for undergraduate and graduate level technique courses. Writing and reflecting are valuable components of training. This free, downloadable journal can be formally used within a college course or personally printed out by a college student to explore on…