{"product_id":"the-shapes-of-change-paperback","title":"The Shapes of Change: Images of American Dance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcia B. Siegel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What is strikingly new about Miss Siegel's achievement is that she goes beyond the usual kind of historical reassessment. . . . She performs on behalf of this most evanescent of the arts an act of significant recovery. By tracking down--often in rare stage revivals, on film or on videotape--as many of the works by major creators of the last half century as survive, and by describing them . . . in a manner that combines accuracy and imagination, she has enriched our knowledge of the past and added immeasurably, to our resent stock of critical resources.\"--Dale Harris, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"Siegel has a gut feeling for dance and a razor-sharp intelligence about it. It's an irresistible combination.\"--Margaret Pierpont, \u003ci\u003e Dance Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \"After you've seen and felt dance this deeply--even vicariously--your way of looking at dance will never be the same.\"--William Albright, \u003ci\u003eHouston Post \u003c\/i\u003e She sees, acutely, with her muscles as well as her eyes. She thinks about dance as much as she experiences it. . . . This is dance choreography reconstituted. Dances leap off the page. . . . The ability to do that is extraordinary.\"--Jean Bunke, \u003ci\u003eDes Moines Sunday Register\u003c\/i\u003e \"The sections in which she describes the dances themselves make up the bulk of the book and they are profoundly illuminating. . . . These descriptions represent an amazing literary, as well as critical, accomplishment, for they are both accurate and resonant, both objective and enlightening, both formal and personal.\"--Laura Shapiro, \u003ci\u003eThe Real Paper\u003c\/i\u003e \"Siegel draws on her years of experience as a working dance critic, a profession she has helped to shape, and brings to a range of American dance a sense of honesty and a mind that wants to understand the antecedents of what is currently in vogue as the dance explosion.\"--Iris M. Fanger, \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcia B. Siegel\u003c\/b\u003e (1959-1995) was a dance critic, teacher, and advocate for professional dance criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 386\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.21 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 1985\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133460516999,"sku":"9780520042124","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3fbc90edb6f5b84b67e735e71a21ec85.webp?v=1732634523","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-shapes-of-change-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}