Creation in Dance and Life
Book
Date:
1972
ISBN:
9780720600421
Format:
Hardcover
Description:
125 p. : ill. (b&w) ; 14.5 x 22 cm. + 2 Fergusson Gallery brochures and copy of Margaret Morris Archive history
Summary:
"As a pioneer of modern dance techniques Margaret Morris is comparable with Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham. Her teaching methods have been adopted and dancers trained in Margaret Morris Schools throughout the world. A pupil of Isadora Duncan's brother Raymond, she was encouraged to start her first school by John Galsworthy. (The story of her love-affair with Galsworthy is told vividly in My Galsworthy Story.) Later she married the Scots painter J.D. Fergusson.
In this new book she describes, with her own diagrams, her choreographical and teaching methods as well as many ways of group improvisation. A trained physiotherapist, since 1925 Margaret Morris has taught eurhythmics and dance movement to the physically handicapped, and she outlines her therapeutic techniques which are beneficial to the aged and disabled.
Creation in Dance and Life, an invaluable guide for teachers of dancing, will appeal particularly to dancers and lovers of ballet, and to the many admirers of My Life in Movement." -- from book jacket