Renee D'Aoust

Body of a Dancer (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A remarkably clear-eyed descent into New York's surreal world of modern dance peopled by the obsessed, dispossessed, sexy, suicidal, brutal, broke, and absurd."-Lance Olsen, author of Nietzsche's Kisses

The award-winning writer Renée E. D'Aoust draws from her experiences as a modern dancer in New York during the nineties. Her luminous prose spotlights this passionate, often brutal world. Trained at the prestigious Martha Graham Center, D'Aoust intertwines accounts of her own and other dancers' lives with essays on modern dance history. A dancer's body, scarred, strained, and tough, bears witness to the discipline demanded by the art form. Body of a Dancer provides a powerful, acidly comic record of what it is to love, and eventually leave, a life centered on dance.

"With exquisite description, absolute honesty, and a clear compelling voice, Body of a Dancer offers an unforgettable account of one artist's bittersweet journey."-Dinty W. Moore

Renée E. D'Aoust's essays have been featured as notable essays in Best American Essays in 2006, 2007, and 2009. Her nonfiction work has been included in the anthology Reading Dance, edited by Robert Gottlieb and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. D'Aoust is the recipient of an NEA Dance Criticism fellowship and grants from The Puffin Foundation and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Etruscan Press
• Seitenzahl: 171
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780983934615
• Artikelnr.: 38241922

Autorenporträt

Trained as a dancer at the Pacific Northwest Ballet and later at the Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance, Renee D'Aoust performed on proscenium stages and black box theaters. Now as a writer she has numerous publications and awards to her credit, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism, support from the Puffin Foundation, and grants from Idaho Commission on the Arts. D'Aoust holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Notre Dame.