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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Suki JohnPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780786449019ISBN 10: 0786449012 Pages: 231 Publication Date: 30 August 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsJohn's writing opens a window into Castro's Cuba through the lens of dance...offers a poignant analysis to American dancers and scholars, long shut out of Cuba by our government and theirs. To read John's quicksilver prose is to revel in the rich world of Cuban dance and music. John has achieved both for herself and her Cuban colleagues a coup. Read it. Whether you are a ballet or modern dancer, it will send you searching for a visa to train in Cuba --<i>Dance Magazine</i>; Suki John's book on Cuban dance is superb. She skillfully and expertly guides us through the mazeworks of one of the most dance-creative nations on earth. Cuba gave us mambo, rumba, danzon, habanera. John updates all that, showing how Cuba perennially transforms the human body into a rich and ready art form. Strongly recommended. --Robert Farris Thompson, author of <i>Tango: The Art History of Love and Aesthetic of the Cool</i>. John's writing opens a window into Castro's Cuba through the lens of dance...offers a poignant analysis to American dancers and scholars, long shut out of Cuba by our government and theirs. To read John's quicksilver prose is to revel in the rich world of Cuban dance and music. John has achieved both for herself and her Cuban colleagues a coup. Read it. Whether you are a ballet or modern dancer, it will send you searching for a visa to train in Cuba --Dance Magazine; Suki John's book on Cuban dance is superb. She skillfully and expertly guides us through the mazeworks of one of the most dance-creative nations on earth. Cuba gave us mambo, rumba, danzon, habanera. John updates all that, showing how Cuba perennially transforms the human body into a rich and ready art form. Strongly recommended. --Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love and Aesthetic of the Cool. Author InformationSuki John has published articles in the New York Times, Four Seasons Magazine, Village Voice, Dance Magazine, Pointe, Ballet-tanz International, The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Dance, Caribbean Dance, and Dance Research Journal. She has choreographed for Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Compa�ia Narciso Medina, People's Yugoslav Theater, Danza Contempor�nea de Cuba, Ritmo Flamenco, The 92nd St. Y, DIA Foundation, and The Culture Project. She is an associate professor in the School for Classical & Contemporary Dance, Texas Christian University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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