RACHEL BROWNE: DANCING TOWARD THE LIGHT

CAROL ANDERSON

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About the Book
“Dancing Toward the Light” is Rachel Browne’s story, from her days as a ballerina with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet to her present status as a noted choreographer of spare, charged works of dance. In 1964 she founded Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers; when she was edged out of the company twenty years later, she emerged as a creator of poetic works, which address her feminist and socialist convictions. Teacher, mentor, creator, director, dancer, Rachel Browne is a remarkable force in Canadian dance.

Quotes
“Through her abiding devotion to her art, Rachel Browne has come to stand as a moral force in Canadian dance. Singular in her courage, her intrepid determination, her discipline, and in what at times has been sheer bloody-mindedness, throughout her dance career in Canada she has been a trailblazer.”
-from the Foreword by Grant Strate

About the Author
Carol Anderson has pursued a diverse career as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, director, and dance writer. Her writing includes numerous articles on Canadian dance, the biography Judy Jarvis Dance Artist: A Portrait (1993), a look at Canadian dance near the millennium entitled Chasing the Tale of Contemporary Dance (1999), and This Passion: For the Love of Dance (1998), an anthology of original Canadian dance writing that she compiled and edited. Anderson is a former artistic director of Toronto’s Dancemakers, of which she was a founding member. She was a dancer for twenty years and continues to teach and choreograph.

ISBN:

1-896239-53-6

GENRE:

BIO005000 Biography & Autobiography/Entertainment & Performing Arts PER003040 Performing Arts/Dance/Modern

SPECS:

160 pp 6 x 9 in