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A rare gift, a performer's reminiscence that situates a career into a wider cultural context. - Stagebill A fascinating glimpse of life inside Graham's charmed circle, and a moving record of one dancer's determined pursuit of a career. - Kirkus Reviews No one to date has defined Graham's teaching methods as extensively as Bird....This is an invaluable book for professionals, students, and those who are eager to know about the awesome dimensions of Martha Graham. - Backstage Bird is a storyteller gifted with vivid powers of observation and a witty and often wicked humor....This 'bird's eye view' of dance, theater, and politics in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s does give a sense of the lay of the land. But it is land populated by some of the most famous stage names of all time, seen here close-up in perceptive and revealing detail....There is as much here for the dance scholar as for those who simply love a good story, a feat that Bird executes with impressive grace. - Jennifer Dunning, dance critic, New York Times The most interesting inside account of the development of early modern dance I have had the good fortune to read. - Sondra Fraleigh, author of Dance and the Lived Body

A rare gift, a performer's reminiscence that situates a career into a wider cultural context. - Stagebill A fascinating glimpse of life inside Graham's charmed circle, and a moving record of one dancer's determined pursuit of a career. - Kirkus Reviews No one to date has defined Graham's teaching methods as extensively as Bird....This is an invaluable book for professionals, students, and those who are eager to know about the awesome dimensions of Martha Graham. - Backstage Bird is a storyteller gifted with vivid powers of observation and a witty and often wicked humor....This 'bird's eye view' of dance, theater, and politics in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s does give a sense of the lay of the land. But it is land populated by some of the most famous stage names of all time, seen here close-up in perceptive and revealing detail....There is as much here for the dance scholar as for those who simply love a good story, a feat that Bird executes with impressive grace. - Jennifer Dunning, dance critic, New York Times The most interesting inside account of the development of early modern dance I have had the good fortune to read. - Sondra Fraleigh, author of Dance and the Lived Body

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Dorothy Bird (1912-1996) was a hand-picked member of Martha Graham's dance troupe from 1930 to 1937. Following a decade-long career on Broadway-during which time she worked with Balanchine, Helen Tamiris, Jerome Robbins, and other major choreographers-she

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