Now available in paperback, Days on Earth--originally published in 1988 (Yale University Press)--traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia B. Siegel follows Humphrey's career from her days with the Denishawn Company (among fellos students like Martha Graham) to her creative partnership with Charles Weidman to her tenure as artistic director of protege Jose Limon's dance company. Siegel's reconsideration and description of Humphrey's dances, including many that are no longer performed, sheds important light on this pathbreaking dancer/choreographer.
- ISBN10 132214088X
- ISBN13 9781322140889
- Publish Date 1 January 2012 (first published 1 December 1987)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Duke University Press
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 353
- Language English