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“Clare Croft’s book is a love letter to Jill Johnston, an ode to lesbian feminist potential unfurling with dance investigations of the 1960’s, a call for writing as a kind of touching through time, pleasure, juxtapositions, and passionate political imaginings. Gorgeously written and deeply researched, it puts the reader in a richly woven world of thinkers and ideas of what bodies in motion can upend when in sync with feminist possibility. It has an ease, a slouch, and funny adjacencies to queer pleasures and adamancies that helps us sense and move more queerly.” -- Jennifer Monson, Professor of Dance, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign “Jill Johnston in Motion is a smart and engaging read that sheds light on one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Clare Croft tells a compelling story about Jill Johnston’s transition from dancer to dance critic to feminist cultural critic over the course of her life as a writer. With remarkable care, Croft not only underscores the importance of Johnston’s contributions to dance and feminist history, she also demonstrates how Johnston’s writing was itself an embodied practice and performance. This important book will be a primary text for performance studies and gender and sexuality studies.” -- Ricardo Montez, author of * Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire *

“Clare Croft’s book is a love letter to Jill Johnston, an ode to lesbian feminist potential unfurling with dance investigations of the 1960’s, a call for writing as a kind of touching through time, pleasure, juxtapositions, and passionate political imaginings. Gorgeously written and deeply researched, it puts the reader in a richly woven world of thinkers and ideas of what bodies in motion can upend when in sync with feminist possibility. It has an ease, a slouch, and funny adjacencies to queer pleasures and adamancies that helps us sense and move more queerly.” -- Jennifer Monson, Professor of Dance, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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Clare Croft is Associate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan, author of Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange, and editor of Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings.

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