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Selma Jeanne Cohen (Editor)
Paperback, 112 pages
Editor Selma Jeanne Cohen 'turned on' seven prominent choreographers (Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, & Paul Taylor) 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.
