"In this sparkling, innovative, fully illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance-time, proximity, space, motion, and tone- into text. Parson invites the reader to share her home, her reading, her walks down the street, and her conversations on everything from Homer to feminist art to social protest. She helps us to see how everyday movement creates the wider world. Dance, it turns out, is everything...

This documentary, directed by Douglas Rosenberg, follows the progress of "The Cross-Cultural Choreography Commissioning Project" or "The Men's Project," a bold and innovative undertaking in which dancer Li Chiao-Ping commissioned six male choreographers of international stature to choreograph solo dance works for her. This project explores how cultural factors including issues of race, gender, age, and sexuality bear on the production of dance. The...