A Dancer’s Diary: Around the World in Thirteen Dances by Dina McDermott Best Choice

A Dancer’s Diary: Around the World in Thirteen Dances is your passport to the mesmerizing, multicolored, and memorable world of dance. Join author Dina McDermott on a journey through the art of dance, including classical ballet, contemporary/modern dance, kathak, flamenco, and many other unique styles. With stops in Bali, Spain and Cuba, and additional performances and choreographers from China, Israel and Germany, among others, each chapter forms a vivid account of the author’s firsthand experiences; spanning performances and travels around the world from 1983 to the present. Combining memoir, travel writing and performance review, McDermott creates a lavish sampler of international dance. If you love dance, travel, cultural study, music or visual arts, you will enjoy this narrative, written by a professional dancer, teacher and choreographer.