Beyond the Bamboo Forest

The True Adventures of a Young Chinese Dancer Who Stepped Into Her Dreams and Discovered the World.

von Yung Lerner

318 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 1970 Yung Yung arrives in New York City where it is rare to see a young Asian woman outside of Chinatown. Modern Dance icon Martha Graham has recruited Yung Yung while on a visit to Taipei where the brilliant young dancer's journey begins. Yung Yung, who could not imagine life beyond the bamboo forest, is suddenly free of the political dictator Chiang Kai-shek and the backstage parents she'd supported since early childhood. "In this memoir, we experience the fall and resurrection of a professional dancer/choreographer who, with the help of Martha Graham and an unconventional psychotherapist Shepard Hoodwin, escapes outer and inner tyranny" Mark Sackeroff (Temple University).

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein
• ISBN: 9781496900968
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.05.2014
• Größe: 203 x 127 mm
• Verlag: AuthorHouse