{"product_id":"the-shapes-of-change-marcia-b-siegel-9780520042124","title":"The Shapes of Change","description":"\"What is strikingly new about Miss Siegel's achievement is that she goes beyond the usual kind of historical reassessment. . . . She performs on behalf of this most evanescent of the arts an act of significant recovery. By tracking down--often in rare stage revivals, on film or on videotape--as many of the works by major creators of the last half century as survive, and by describing them . . . in a manner that combines accuracy and imagination, she has enriched our knowledge of the past and added immeasurably, to our resent stock of critical resources.\"--Dale Harris, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"Siegel has a gut feeling for dance and a razor-sharp intelligence about it. It's an irresistible combination.\"--Margaret Pierpont, \u003ci\u003e Dance Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \"After you've seen and felt dance this deeply--even vicariously--your way of looking at dance will never be the same.\"--William Albright, \u003ci\u003eHouston Post \u003c\/i\u003e She sees, acutely, with her muscles as well as her eyes. She thinks about dance as much as she experiences it. . . . This is dance choreography reconstituted. Dances leap off the page. . . . The ability to do that is extraordinary.\"--Jean Bunke, \u003ci\u003eDes Moines Sunday Register\u003c\/i\u003e \"The sections in which she describes the dances themselves make up the bulk of the book and they are profoundly illuminating. . . . These descriptions represent an amazing literary, as well as critical, accomplishment, for they are both accurate and resonant, both objective and enlightening, both formal and personal.\"--Laura Shapiro, \u003ci\u003eThe Real Paper\u003c\/i\u003e \"Siegel draws on her years of experience as a working dance critic, a profession she has helped to shape, and brings to a range of American dance a sense of honesty and a mind that wants to understand the antecedents of what is currently in vogue as the dance explosion.\"--Iris M. Fanger, \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcia B. Siegel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520042123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520042124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.21h x 5.32w x 0.91d","brand":"Marcia B. Siegel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119754014975,"sku":"9780520042124","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab71ab5a-8e1c-456b-952e-e231d2ab2eca.jpg?v=1687410781","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-shapes-of-change-marcia-b-siegel-9780520042124","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}