Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey: The Creative Impulse of Reconstruction

Acknowledgments

xi I have been fortunate indeed to benefit from the wisdom of some exceptional women in dance. Elaine Macdonald, Pat Mackenzie, Wendy Cook, Ann Hutchinson Guest, Millicent Hodson, and Stephanie Jordan each in their individual ways made me feel that distant aspirations were reachable. I thank my dear friend Alexandra (Sandra) Carter for her unstinting support and encouragement as my writing progressed from the uncertain state of emerging scholar to something deemed publishable. Thanks also to Ann Cooper Albright (SDHS), Raphael Kadushin (University of Wisconsin Press), and the anonymous readers for their editorial guidance and generous support as this volume evolved. My appreciation to photographers Linda Butler, Lisa Green, Jennifer Lester, and Alberto Sachero, whose work enhances my own and collectively illuminates this text. A final and ongoing thank you to the many, many dancers in Great Britain, in Italy, and in the United States who have danced these magni ficent Humphrey dances with me along the way, from a fledgling Passacaglia in 1982 to its more recent incarnations in Turin and Oak Park, Illinois. And to my parents, Norma and James Main, for seeing most of them. Acknowledgments Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey ...