This autobiography looks at the career of Dorothy Bird (1912-1996) who debuted with the Graham Group in 1931 on the invitation of Martha Graham and remained a company member and Graham's demonstrator until 1937. She then embarked upon a decade-long career on Broadway becoming the only dancer of her generation to work with all the major choreographers in concert and on the Great White Way. Paperback "A rare gift a performer's reminiscence that situates a career into a wider cultural context." - Stagebill "A fascinating glimpse of life inside Graham's charmed circle and a moving record of one dancer's determined pursuit of a career." - Kirkus Reviews "No one to date has defined Graham's teaching methods as extensively as Bird....This is an invaluable book for professionals students and those who are eager to know about the awesome dimensions of Martha Graham." - Backstage "Bird is a storyteller gifted with vivid powers of observation and a witty and often wicked humor....This 'bird's eye view' of dance theater and politics in the 1930s '40s and '50s does give a sense of the lay of the land. But it is land populated by some of the most famous stage names of all time seen here close-up in perceptive and revealing detail....There is as much here for the dance scholar as for those who simply love a good story a feat that Bird executes with impressive grace." - Jennifer Dunning dance critic New York Times "The most interesting inside account of the development of early modern dance I have had the good fortune to read." - Sondra Fraleigh author of Dance and the Lived Body
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