Birds Eye View: Dancing with Martha Graham and on Broadway

by Joyce Greenberg and Dorothy Bird

Book Overview

With a foreword by Marcia B. Siegel In 1930, seventeen-year-old Dorothy Bird from Victoria, British Columbia, was sent to study dance at the Cornish School in Seattle. There she was totally captivated by Martha Graham, who, at the end of summer, invited Dorothy to study with her at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Dorothy debuted with the Graham Group in 1931 in Primitive Mysteries, and was a company member and Graham's demonstrator...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822939800
• ISBN13: 9780822939801
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Well written story of an exquisite dancer-simply beautiful

Dorthy Bird was a gifted dancer, and with Joyce Greenberg's assistance the reader is given extraordinary insight into the world of Martha Graham. Ms. Greenberg captures the exquisite world of modern dance and the life of a beautiful person, Dorothy Bird.. Brian Lamb should interview her on Booknotes.