 The dancer within: intimate conversations with great dancers.
Author: Eichenbaum, Rose Published: A collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and entertainers, many of them world famous. Well-known on the concert stage, Broadway, in Hollywood musicals, and on television, the personalities featured in this book speak with extraordinary candor about all stages of the dancer's life - from performances and their days of reflection on the artist's life. This book reveals how these artists triumphed, but also how they overcame adversity, including self-doubt, injuries, and aging. Most of all, this book is about the courage, commitment, love, and passion of these performers in their quest for artistic excellence. The reader will quickly realize that 'the dancer within' is a metaphor of the human spirit. Dancers interviewed include Yuriko, Ethan Stiefel, Leslie Caron, Fernando Bujones, Cynthia Gregory, Donna McKechnie, Mitzi Gaynor, Chita Rivera, Rita Moreno, Natalia Makarova, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rasta Thomas, Robert La Fosse, Martine van Hamel, and Julio Bocca. |
