{"product_id":"moving-with-the-times-hardcover","title":"Moving With The Times - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eValerie Preston-Dunlop\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncompromising innovator, researcher, \u003cbr\u003e dancer and scholar, mentor and matriarch\u003cbr\u003e She is a bishop's daughter with a silver-spoon\u003cbr\u003e childhood and youthful traumas through\u003cbr\u003e the death of her father, wartime separation\u003cbr\u003e and teenage poverty. Valerie's meeting, aged\u003cbr\u003e sixteen, with the extraordinary Hungarian\u003cbr\u003e Rudolf Laban, guru of expressionist dance, \u003cbr\u003e set her on a life-long career devoted to\u003cbr\u003e questioning, championing and developing\u003cbr\u003e his initial insights into dance as a deeply\u003cbr\u003e significant art form for human wellbeing.\u003cbr\u003e Her writing exposes her battles to integrate\u003cbr\u003e dance practice with dance scholarship in a\u003cbr\u003e world set up to keep them apart.\u003cbr\u003e She shares the difficulties of balancing the\u003cbr\u003e demands of family with professional life\u003cbr\u003e exacerbated by the catastrophic illness of her\u003cbr\u003e husband John and her own experience of\u003cbr\u003e mental breakdown.\u003cbr\u003e She describes her travels taking dance all\u003cbr\u003e over the globe and collecting evidence across\u003cbr\u003e Europe of Laban's leadership of German dance\u003cbr\u003e in the 1920s and 1930s, work that the Nazi\u003cbr\u003e regime almost succeeded in annihilating.\u003cbr\u003e The book traces her support of what is\u003cbr\u003e now Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music\u003cbr\u003e and Dance, from being in its first cohort of\u003cbr\u003e students in a grubby studio in Manchester to\u003cbr\u003e being honoured as a Fellow in its Herzog and\u003cbr\u003e de Meuron award-winning building in South\u003cbr\u003e London.\u003cbr\u003e Valerie shares her wholehearted commitment\u003cbr\u003e to whatever was on offer at difference stages of\u003cbr\u003e her life from performing and choreographing, \u003cbr\u003e renovating a Victorian garden and running\u003cbr\u003e clubs for disadvantaged people, writing books\u003cbr\u003e and directing documentaries, educating\u003cbr\u003e dancers and dance makers, engaging with\u003cbr\u003e all manner of people along the way from the\u003cbr\u003e left-wing theatre director Joan Littlewood to\u003cbr\u003e the establishment Archbishop of Canterbury\u003cbr\u003e or the astounding choreographer William\u003cbr\u003e Forsythe, while nurturing her family and embracing Quakerism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47418479607986,"sku":"9781906830809","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b9a3db4cabcd3610bfab93c373db43f3.webp?v=1778451797","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/moving-with-the-times-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}