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Ultimately, Renee E. D'Aoust's, Body of a Dancer is a strong collection, offering new readings as the reader's eye recognizes the complexity of the movement between noun and verb, text and subject, body and mind. --Karen Babine, University of Nebraska, Mid-American Review D'Aoust focuses on a dancer's body with such acute observation that she hooks a reader to follow her on her necessarily peripatetic tour of dance venues in New York City... --George Held, Wilderness House Literary Review Body of a Dancer fills a void in the dance literature that has existed for far too long.... As D'Aoust reveals in her wonderful memoir, the Body of a Dancer is also shaped by an entire life led both inside and outside the studio. -- Ballet-Dance Magazine

Ultimately, Renee E. D'Aoust's, <i>Body of a Dancer</i> is a strong collection, offering new readings as the reader's eye recognizes the complexity of the movement between noun and verb, text and subject, body and mind. Karen Babine, University of Nebraska, <i>Mid-American Review</i></p> D Aoust focuses on a dancer s body with such acute observation that she hooks a reader to follow her on her necessarily peripatetic tour of dance venues in New York City George Held, <i>Wilderness House Literary Review</i></p> <i>Body of a Dancer</i> fills a void in the dance literature that has existed for far too long. As D'Aoust reveals in her wonderful memoir, the Body of a Dancer is also shaped by an entire life led both inside and outside the studio. <i>Ballet-Dance Magazine</i>

Ultimately, Renee E. D'Aoust's, Body of a Dancer is a strong collection, offering new readings as the reader's eye recognizes the complexity of the movement between noun and verb, text and subject, body and mind. --Karen Babine, University of Nebraska, Mid-American Review D'Aoust focuses on a dancer's body with such acute observation that she hooks a reader to follow her on her necessarily peripatetic tour of dance venues in New York City... --George Held, Wilderness House Literary Review Body of a Dancer fills a void in the dance literature that has existed for far too long.... As D'Aoust reveals in her wonderful memoir, the Body of a Dancer is also shaped by an entire life led both inside and outside the studio. --Ballet-Dance Magazine Ultimately, Renee E. D'Aoust's, Body of a Dancer is a strong collection, offering new readings as the reader's eye recognizes the complexity of the movement between noun and verb, text and subject, body and mind. --Karen Babine, University of Nebraska, Mid-American Review D'Aoust focuses on a dancer's body with such acute observation that she hooks a reader to follow her on her necessarily peripatetic tour of dance venues in New York City... --George Held, Wilderness House Literary Review Body of a Dancer fills a void in the dance literature that has existed for far too long.... As D'Aoust reveals in her wonderful memoir, the Body of a Dancer is also shaped by an entire life led both inside and outside the studio. --Ballet-Dance Magazine Ultimately, Renee E. D'Aoust's, Body of a Dancer is a strong collection, offering new readings as the reader's eye recognizes the complexity of the movement between noun and verb, text and subject, body and mind. --Karen Babine, University of Nebraska, Mid-American Review D'Aoust focuses on a dancer's body with such acute observation that she hooks a reader to follow her on her necessarily peripatetic tour of dance venues in New York City... --George Held, Wilderness House Literary Review Body of a Dancer fills a void in the dance literature that has existed for far too long.... As D'Aoust reveals in her wonderful memoir, the Body of a Dancer is also shaped by an entire life led both inside and outside the studio. -- Ballet-Dance Magazine

<p> Ultimately, Renee E. D'Aoust's, Body of a Dancer is a strong collection, offering new readings as the reader's eye recognizes the complexity of the movement between noun and verb, text and subject, body and mind. <br>--Karen Babine, University of Nebraska, Mid-American Review <br><p> D'Aoust focuses on a dancer's body with such acute observation that she hooks a reader to follow her on her necessarily peripatetic tour of dance venues in New York City... <br>--George Held, Wilderness House Literary Review <br> Body of a Dancer fills a void in the dance literature that has existed for far too long.... As D'Aoust reveals in her wonderful memoir, the Body of a Dancer is also shaped by an entire life led both inside and outside the studio. <br>-- Ballet-Dance Magazine <br>

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Trained as a dancer at the Pacific Northwest Ballet and later at the Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance, Renee D'Aoust performed on proscenium stages and black box theaters. Now as a writer she has numerous publications and awards to her credit, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism, support from the Puffin Foundation, and grants from Idaho Commission on the Arts. D'Aoust holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Notre Dame.

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