1st Edition

Frontiers American Modern Dancer and Dance Educator

By Karen Bell-Kanner Copyright 1998
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

The daily life of Bonnie Bird, as an American modern dancer in the 1930s, is uniquely revealed in this book. Karen Bell-Kanner shares with the reader her fascinating interviews with Bonnie Bird and the intimate letters that Bonnie Bird wrote to her family in Seattle from New York when she was working with Martha Graham between 1931 and 1937. On her return to the Cornish School of Fine Arts in... Read more
Chapter 1 Extending the Frontiers of Dance; Chapter 2 Dance Prelude; Chapter 3 A Child of the Pacific Northwest; Chapter 4 The Cornish School; Chapter 5 Preparation; Chapter 6 The Martha Years; Chapter 7 Rumbles in the West; Chapter 8 America at War; Chapter 9 A Phoenix in New York; Chapter 10 Building Song;

Biography

Bell-Kanner, Karen