American Dance Portfolio: photographs by Jack Mitchell
foreword by Walter Terry

A master photographer of the art of the dance presents a gallery of 159 portraits of leading personalities in American dance from Ruth St. Denis to contemporary stars of the theater. Represented are performers in the fields of modern dance, ballet, ethnic and theater dance. Among them are the great companies of Martha Graham, the American Ballet Theater, Jose Limon, the New York City Ballet and the Robert Joffrey Ballet, together with such distinguished dances as Ted Shqn, Merce Cunningham, Alexandra Danilova, Dame Alicia Markova, Maris Tallchief, Erik Bruhn, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.

No photographer has covered the American dances scenes so thoroughly as Jack Mitchell. Here is a personal selections of his photographs, limited only by the provisions that the subjects are known primarily as performing dancers and that they are American, or have appeared with an American dance company. This handsome volume includes a detailed index identifying subjects with their companies as well as notes on the cameras used, and is an invaluable and inspiring record of American Dance. In the words of Walter Terry, Dance Editor for the New York Herald Tribune: “The special attribute of Jack Mitchell's photography is that his camera's focus and the movement focus of the dancer meet in flawless accord. . . It is a dual portrait he gives us: a portrait of a dancer and, even more important, the portrait of that movement which truly represents the dancer's moment of life within the design of his art.”

Hardcover, 128 pages, dustjacket worn and torn, book is in good condition. 1964, Dodd, Mead & Company.

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