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“Cohen’s stimulating, perceptive, and well-written essays both conjure up the excitement of live dance performances and record dance aesthetics with accuracy, historical perspective, clarity, persuasuion, pleasure, ease, expertise, and reliability . . . High priority acquisition for both public and academic libraries”—Choice
A book of essays on “dance and ideas about dance.”
“The philosophers and writers on esthetics quoted by Miss Cohen, whether they are commenting on dance or other art forms, do not…always serve the needs of a universal definition for dance. It is this awareness of the need for particularizationin dance theory that makes Miss Cohen’s book so refreshing.”—Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times
“The issues Cohen tackles are as fundamental to the dance critic as time, space and enery are to the choreographer. How might one go about determining the ‘style’ of a ballet? What makes viruoso display frivolous? What, and how, does a dance represent?”—Susan Isaacs Nisbett, Dance Critics Association News
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Books for College Libraries 1988
CHOICE “Outstanding Academic Title”
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