Dance

The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers by Rose Eichenbaum

by Elinor Teele

September 8th, 2008

In fact, the only one who doesn’t fall in with this uplifting sentiment is, God bless her, Shirley MacLaine. With a fabulous display of grande dame orneriness, she even takes Eichenbaum to task for trying to make something monumental out of the whole idea. Exploring the dancer within? Bah humbug.

This article is filed under Dance, Non-Fiction Reviews.

Remembering Nureyev by Rudi van Dantzig

by Elinor Teele

June 9th, 2008

More intimately, van Dantzig shows us the idiosyncratic human being that powered the death-defying leaps and diamond-cut footwork. Paranoid about the KGB and Scotland Yard, perennially late to any rehearsal or engagement, often rude to his female partners, free with his sexual life at dinner parties, Nureyev comes across as a royal pain in the ass.

This article is filed under Biography, Dance, Non-Fiction Reviews.

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