INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS WITH GREAT DANCERS
PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXT BY Rose Eichenbaum
EDITED BY ARON HIRT-MANHEIMER
Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut
Published by Wesleyan University Press,
Middletown, CT 06459
Photos and text copyright © 2008 by Rose Eichenbaum
All rights reserved
Printed in China
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Eichenbaum, Rose.
The dancer within : intimate conversations with great dancers / photographs and text by Rose Eichenbaum ; edited by Aron Hirt-Manheimer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn-13: 978–0–8195–6880–9 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0–8195–6880–5 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Dancers—United States—Interviews.
2. Dancers—United States—Portraits.
GV1785.A1E52 2008
792.802'80922—dc22 2008001416
Cover photograph of Chita Rivera by Rose Eichenbaum (2005). Cover design by Peter Schwartz.
In memory
of Rose Gold,
my first dance teacher,
who awakened the
dancer within me.