How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve dancers - six women and six men -who Became famous, some against all odds.
Midwest Book Review A unique and impressively written, organized and presented History of dance, How They Became Famous Dancers is very highly recommended for both school and community library collections..
Each chapter includes Create a Dance giving readers the opportunity to try out each dancer\'s style.
Featured dancers are: Louis XIV, John Durang, Marie Taglioni, William Henry \'Juba\' Lane, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Laban, Doris Humphrey, Michio Ito, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Pearl Primus, Amalia Hernández, and Arthur Mitchell.
Placed in chronological order, each biographical sketch mirrors the subject\'s historical and cultural context.
Coming from different parts of the world (France, Hungary, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Sweden, Trinidad, and the United States) and displaying a variety of physical sizes, body shapes, and skin colors, their lives spanned the seventeenth into the twenty-first centuries.
How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve dancers - six women and six men -who Became famous, some against all odds
