Book description
CONTRIBUTORS: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle,
Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor. "Editor Selma Jeanne
Cohen 'turned on' seven prominent choreographers to write what their art
meant to them. Each was to set forth his or her ideas on the modern
dance and then to describe what he [or she] would do if commissioned to
compose a dance that had to deal with the theme of the Prodigal Son...
With the help of these pre-established foci, the essays actually amount
to a documentary on the modern dance at mid-century as seen by its
practitioners." --Herta Pauly, Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Criticism Trained in modern dance and ballet, and educated at the
University of Chicago from which she holds a Ph. D., SELMA JEANNE COHEN
occupies a unique place in the dance world as editor of Dance
Perspectives. She is also director of the National Regional Ballet
Association and the American Society for Aesthetics, and a member of the
Dance Panel for the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities.
Cohen is the author of Next Week, Swan Lake (Wesleyan, 1982) and she
edited and completed Doris Humphrey, An Artist First: An Autobiography
(Wesleyan, 1972). Most recently, she was founding editor of The
International Encyclopedia of Dance (1998).
