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| ix Acknowledgments To the dancers who have found their way to me and to the Dance Exchange, I am indebted. I list those that stayed awhile, but even those not mentioned here brought their hopes, their ideas, their bodies, and their histories to our mutual endeavor: Harry Belanger, Marty Belin, Jeff Bliss, Kimberli Boyd, Mary Buckley , Debra Caplowe, Adrienne Clancy, Sarah Cohen, Reggie Crump, Beth Davis , Peter DiMuro, Ami Dowden-Fant, Amie Dowling, Thomas Dwyer, Clark Ebert, Diane Floyd, Bob Fogelgren, Keith Goodman, Margot Greenlee, Jeffrey Gunshol, Betty Harris, Louise Haskins, Vee Hollenbeck, Elizabeth Johnson, Ted Johnson, Judith Jourdin, Deborah Lamb, Pamela Lasswell, Sarah Levitt, Anne MacDonald, Matt Mahaney, Kevin Malone, Gesel Mason, Pene McCourty , Paloma McGregor, Cassie Meador, Vanetta Metoyer, Celeste Miller, Christopher Morgan, Kazu Nakamura, Sally Nash, Jim Patterson, Michelle Pearson , Tamara Pullman, Rome Quesada, Helen Rea, Jess Rea, Seymour Rosen, Hannah Rosenthal, Charlie Rother, Shula Strassfeld, Vincent Thomas, Andy Torres, Tom Truss, Thelma Tulane, Bea Wattenberg, Marvin Webb, Ben Wegman , Boris Willis, Martha Wittman, Colette Yglesias, and Don Zuckerman. It is a special group of individuals who are willing to support an artist and an art form that is so ephemeral. I am thankful to all of the amazing individuals who have served and continue to serve as board members for the Dance Exchange and the many people whose major gifts make it all possible, including Diane Bernstein, the Drescher Family, Ron and Diane Eichner, Sandy Frucher, Lorraine Gallard and Richard Levy, Marti Head, Martha Minow, A. J. Pietrantone, Betsy Raymond, Stan Reinisch, and Elliot Rosen. I am grateful to the institutions that have sustained our experiment, including Boeing, the Exemplar Program and the Animating Democracy Program of Americans for the Arts, Covenant Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MetLife Foundation, Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation, and Wallace Foundation. I thank the institutions and government agencies that gave me time to write, even though my first language is movement, and that have supported the Dance Exchange consistently. These include the Rockefeller Foundation, whose support through a residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Cen- x | Acknowledgments ter allowed me to take the first decisive steps on this book, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, New England Foundation for the Arts, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland State Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. My thanks go also to the editors who helped guide some of the original writing that informs several of these essays: Don Adams, Linda Frye Burnham, Karen Clemente, Michael J. Crosbie, Arlene Goldbard, Cathryn Harding, and Nancy Stark Smith. I am also indebted to Special Collections Librarian Vin Novara and his colleagues who helped me with photo research in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland, which houses the Dance Exchange Archive; to Kelly Bond, who managed the considerable task of securing photo permissions; and to all the photographers who graciously agreed to have their work reproduced in these pages. I am very grateful to Suzanna Tamminen at Wesleyan University Press for her guidance, enthusiasm and great capacity to question. Her presence has somehow made the whole process more gracious and graceful. I have come to love sitting in her office, chatting quietly and looking out the window over the simple Connecticut landscape. The extraordinary Pamela Tatge helped me find Suzanna, and many others at Wesleyan had a hand in this work, including Anne Greene. As we completed the writing process, I had the pleasure and security of working with copy editor Bronwyn Becker. We have had wonderful partners in the United States and in countries abroad, including Canada, England, Ireland, Poland, and Japan, who said yes and then worked so hard to make our presence on their stages and in their communities have value. Some have brought us more than once, including Elise Bernhardt, Philip Bither, Dominic Campbell, Carolelinda Dickey, Kathie de Nobriga, Susie Farr, Ken Foster, Emma Gladstone, Arnie Malina, Judith Marcuse, Toby Mattox, Sam Miller, Ritsuko Mizuno and Norikazu Sato, Sharon Moore, Macek Novak, Jordan Peimer, Carla Perlo, Michael Reed, Charles Reinhardt, Andrea Rogers, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Ivan Sygoda, Pamela Tatge, Liz Thompson, Douglas Wheeler, Jed Wheeler, and David White. I have had a wonderful cadre of friends over the years who have walked with me, talked to me on long-distance calls, and helped to shape ideas and action in my life. I am in debt to them and...

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