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Author: Suki John
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9780786449019
ISBN 10: 0786449012
Pages: 231
Publication Date: 30 August 2012
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
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 --<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 Information
Suki 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.
