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In this sparkling, innovative, fully-illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance-time, proximity, space, motion and tone- into text. As we follow Parson through her days-at home, reading, and on her walks down the street-and in and out of conversations on everything from Homer's Odyssey to feminist art to social protest, she helps us see how everyday movement creates the wider world. Dance, it turns out, is everything and everywhere.
With the insight and verve of a soloist, Parson shows us how art-making is a part of our everyday lives and our political life as we move, together and apart, through space.
List of contents
No chapters -- one continual text
About the author
Annie-B Parson is an award-winning choreographer and cofounder of the OBIE winning Big Dance Theater. Parson has created choreography for opera, pop stars, marching bands, television, theater, ballet, symphonies, objects, museums, augmented reality, and 1,000 amateur singers. Among many others, she has choreographed for David Byrne, St. Vincent, Lorde, David Bowie, Anne Carson, Spike Lee, Salt 'n Pepa, Laurie Anderson, Esperanza Spalding, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Summary
A renowned choreographer explores the dance of everyday life and reveals that art-making is as natural as walking down the street.
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A gorgeous meditation on dance, visual art, and literature, as well as living, loving, and mourning. Parsons brings to the page the starling quality of her introspective, astounding, and lyrical stage work, urging us to look more closely at those small and large moments that steer us through the dance of life. Edwidge Danticat, author of Create Dangerously
