Gestures of Genius: Women, Dance, and the Body

By Rachel Vigier

Gestures of Genius is for all women seeking understanding of the history in their own bodies, an engaging, uplifting, and accessible book about recapturing freedom of movement. Rachel Vigier, dance... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551280124
• ISBN13: 9781551280127
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Mercury Pr
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Empowering Study of the Woman's Body and Her Dance

Rachel Vigier has accomplished a major feat with this all-too-short book. One half is devoted to Vigier's personal path through her own mental demons to a place where she is comfortable being a body in motion. Reading her story is like looking into a mirror that magnifies and defines one's self. I felt as though I finally knew my body afterwards. The second part looks at different dancing women throughout history, as well as the results dance produced in their personal well-being and in public perceptions of them. Vigier uses these women's stories, all told in a detailed and empathetic voice, to hypothesize about the roles of women's bodies in their dance and the meaning dance has for women's developing relationships with their bodies.