Book "Branching Out: Oral Histories of the Founders of Six National Dance Organizations" (Hard Copy)

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Branching Out: Oral Histories of the Founders of Six National Dance Organizations was written by Margot C. Lehman and Marilynn Danitz (both former ADG Presidents) and Katja Pylyshenko Kolcio. It contains stories of the Guild and organizations that emerged from it through interviews with the radical educators and artists who founded these seminal associations.

“Branching Out was an excellent choice for my course ‘Philosophy and Criticism of Dance’.  I will continue to tell others about this wonderful and most valuable source.”
- Chrystelle Trump Bond, Professor of Dance, Founding Chair of the Dance Department of Goucher College in Towson, Maryland

Branching Out: Oral Histories of the Founders of Six National Dance Organizations was written by Margot C. Lehman and Marilynn Danitz (both former ADG Presidents) and Katja Pylyshenko Kolcio. It contains stories of the Guild and organizations that emerged from it through interviews with the radical educators and artists who founded these seminal associations.

“Branching Out was an excellent choice for my course ‘Philosophy and Criticism of Dance’.  I will continue to tell others about this wonderful and most valuable source.”
- Chrystelle Trump Bond, Professor of Dance, Founding Chair of the Dance Department of Goucher College in Towson, Maryland

American Dance Guild: Lucile Brahms Nathanson, Bonnie Bird, Bernice Rosen, Joseph Gifford, Carole I. Binswanger, Fannie Isquith, Erna Caplow Lindner, Carolyn Bilderback.
American Dance Therapy Association:  Marian Chace, Catherine Hamilton Pasternak, Sharon Chaiklin, Claire Schmai, Beth Kalish-Weiss.
American College Dance Festival Association:  Lydia Joel, Jeanne hays Beaman, Adam A. Pinsker.
Dance Critics Association:  Marcia B. Siegel, Deborah Joweitt
Congress on Research in Dance:  Patricia A. Rowe, Jennette S. Roosevelt, Binnie Nird & Lucille Nathanson
Society of Dance History Scholars:  Constance Kreemer, Selma Jeanne Cohen, Genevieve Oswald, Jeanette S. Roosevelt.

These stories make our dance history human. They’ll keep you reading. Like eating potato chips, once you start, you can’t stop. Who was the real force behind the Lincoln Center dance Collection? How did dance communicate to institutionalized schizophrenics? Where did you have to go to see dance in the early ’40s?  Find the answers and much, much more.