"Four american women: Marcia Siegel, Deborah Jowitt, Arlene Croce and Nancy Goldner are prime movers in the creation of a 'serious writing' culture for dance criticism. By the selecting extensive examples from their vivid writing about dance, Diana Theodores offers a detailed and illuminating analysis of their styles and ideas from 1965 to 1985, the Golden age of dance in New York. For the first time these four writers are presented as a school of dance criticism - four women who defined american dance in a key era of its recent history."--P.[4] de la couv.

Comprend une bibliographie.
Comprend un index.[-]

"Why do women choreographers choose to create the dances they do in the manner they do? How do women in dance work independently, and organizationally? How do women set up institutions? How has higher education helped or hindered women in the world of dance?

These are some of the questions addressed through interviews and research by the dancers and educators Sharon E. Friedler and Susan B. Glazer in 'Dancing female'. (...)"--P. [4] de la couv.

Comprend une bibliographie à la fin des chapitres.
Comprend un index.[-]