{"product_id":"dancing-through-life-dorothy-dean-stevens-9780595484416","title":"Dancing Through Life: On the Monterey Peninsula and Beyond","description":"Internationally traveled and familiar with salons and personalities of the dance world, we find a stroll through the years as \u003cb\u003eDorothy Dean Stevens\u003c\/b\u003e gives us glimpses of personal encounters with leading dancers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u003cp\u003e She begins by tracing her ancestors settling in the west; on through her early years, then to her entrance into the hallowed halls of European Ballet and the continued ties with leading dancers. Early in her life she studied at Cornish School of the Arts and later with Eugene Lorin. Such notables as Adolf Bolm, and Dimitri Romanoff, instructed in her dance studio in Monterey California. Sucessful dancers such as Frank Bourman, and Michael Smuin, who later founded the Smuin Ballet in San Francisco, taught for a time at Dorothy's studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e She also covers the development of the cultural arts, tracing theater and talent that existed in the central California region of the Monterey Peninsula. But there is more to her life than this; travel and adventure, business and pleasure all woven into a tale of her life. Dorothy dances through joys and sorrows to the encore years in which her family, once again, takes the spot light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy Dean Stevens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595484417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595484416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dorothy Dean Stevens","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119954915583,"sku":"9780595484416","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_80c8ea1d-c0b4-49bb-bffe-80064e018422.jpg?v=1687411810","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dancing-through-life-dorothy-dean-stevens-9780595484416","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}