Page by page / by Ruth Page ; edited and with an introd. by Andrew Mark Wentink

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Dance Horizons, ©1978.Description: xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0871271028
  • 9780871271020
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.8092 PAG
LOC classification:
  • GV1785.P26  A36
Contents:
PART I: THE BEGINNINGS : Autobiographical musings -- The Russian Ballet -- Serge Oukrainsky -- Anna Pavlova -- Seven poems 1928-29 -- PART II: DANCING AROUND THE WORLD : My side of the footlights -- A Balinese rhapsody -- Through propaganda to art -- The dances of Japan -- The Dance: London style -- A dancer glimpses Europe -- The Dance: among Latins -- Blessed by the U.S.O. -- Paris, 1950 The American invasion: Revenge -- Seagulls and swans -- We who travel -- Gone with the wind -- Fairyland -- Ballet festival in Venice -- PART III: THE ART OF DANCING : The dancer as student -- Dance and drama -- Billy Sunday in the ballet -- The use of the speaking voice with dance movement -- Dance: 1923 -- Opera as dance -- The devil at the keyhole -- Americana in the making -- Dance in Chicago as I have known it -- Kids want culture -- Critics: what for? -- PART IV: LA VIE A ST. TROPEZ : I hate you, Yves St. Laurent -- St. Laurent invades St. Tropez -- It's a dog's life -- PART V: PROFILES : Our George -- Ann Barzel -- Clavé -- AndréDelfau -- Patrick Healy Kay -- Flemming the family man -- Marigoula -- Ferddie Franklin: "God's gift to choreographers" -- Kreutzberg as I knew him -- Alicia Markova -- Father Mitchell -- Rudi is always top -- My brother, Irvine -- I;ll have to ask George -- Dearest Van -- Gripes.
Summary: "Ruth Page has been at the forefront of American and international dance as dancer, choreographer and company director for the past six decades. Taking her several times the world over, her career has touched and been touched by many of the most important movements and artists of our time. In Page by Page, she makes her debut as author. Collected here for the first time are most of the thoughts and impressions of her extraordinary career, only a few of which have been published before, some more than a half a century ago." -- Book Jacket
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PART I: THE BEGINNINGS : Autobiographical musings -- The Russian Ballet -- Serge Oukrainsky -- Anna Pavlova -- Seven poems 1928-29 -- PART II: DANCING AROUND THE WORLD : My side of the footlights -- A Balinese rhapsody -- Through propaganda to art -- The dances of Japan -- The Dance: London style -- A dancer glimpses Europe -- The Dance: among Latins -- Blessed by the U.S.O. -- Paris, 1950 The American invasion: Revenge -- Seagulls and swans -- We who travel -- Gone with the wind -- Fairyland -- Ballet festival in Venice -- PART III: THE ART OF DANCING : The dancer as student -- Dance and drama -- Billy Sunday in the ballet -- The use of the speaking voice with dance movement -- Dance: 1923 -- Opera as dance -- The devil at the keyhole -- Americana in the making -- Dance in Chicago as I have known it -- Kids want culture -- Critics: what for? -- PART IV: LA VIE A ST. TROPEZ : I hate you, Yves St. Laurent -- St. Laurent invades St. Tropez -- It's a dog's life -- PART V: PROFILES : Our George -- Ann Barzel -- Clavé -- AndréDelfau -- Patrick Healy Kay -- Flemming the family man -- Marigoula -- Ferddie Franklin: "God's gift to choreographers" -- Kreutzberg as I knew him -- Alicia Markova -- Father Mitchell -- Rudi is always top -- My brother, Irvine -- I;ll have to ask George -- Dearest Van -- Gripes.

"Ruth Page has been at the forefront of American and international dance as dancer, choreographer and company director for the past six decades. Taking her several times the world over, her career has touched and been touched by many of the most important movements and artists of our time. In Page by Page, she makes her debut as author. Collected here for the first time are most of the thoughts and impressions of her extraordinary career, only a few of which have been published before, some more than a half a century ago." -- Book Jacket

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