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Onstage with Martha Graham
- Title
- Onstage with Martha Graham / Stuart Hodes ; foreword by Deborah Jowitt.
- Author
- Hodes, Stuart
- Publication
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jowitt, Deborah
- Description
- xv, 311 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "When world War II was over, a young bomber pilot with an itch for movement and action hung up his cap and learned another way to fly. Onstage with Martha Graham is the story of Stuart Hodes, a versatile and influential dancer who got his start with Martha Graham, an icon of modern dance. His memoir is a rare firsthand view of the dance world in the 1940s and through the end of the twentieth century. One of the few male dancers in Graham's company--and in the New York dance scene at the time--Hodes offers a unique perspective and a one-of-a-kind narrative. He describes how he fell into the art by chance, happening to walk into Graham's studio one day. He was soon hooked. He documents his experiences, travels, passions, and loves while learning from and performing with Graham, during which time he saw most of the United States, much of Europe, and some of Asia. Advancing quickly, he eventually danced as Graham's partner in Appalachian Spring, Deaths and Entrances, Every Soul is a Circus, and Errand into the Maze. In his portrait of Martha Graham, who was the center of his dancing world, Hodes recounts conversations, revelations, bouts of temper and creativity, the daily ritual of deeply physical dancing, and the never-ending search for artistic validity. Direct, often humorous, and always authentic, Hodes shares his delight in dance as both hard work and a fantastic adventure"--Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) and index.
- Contents
- The Green Tours -- 5. TKO'd in Paris and London -- 6. Drink the Sky -- 7. The Grand Tour -- 8. Asia -- 9. Dancing Fool -- 10. A Presence Is Gone.
- Call Number
- *MGYB (Hodes) 21-1287
- ISBN
- 0813066387
- 9780813066387
- OCLC
- 1124976655
- Author
- Hodes, Stuart, author.
- Title
- Onstage with Martha Graham / Stuart Hodes ; foreword by Deborah Jowitt.
- Publisher
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Jowitt, Deborah, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- *MGYB (Hodes) 21-1287