Product Description: Where does the impulse to create originate? How does one cope with the highs and lows of the artist's life? What is the choreographer's responsibility to the dancers, the audience, the self? These are just a few of the probing questions that Rose Eichenbaum, a dancer turned photographer, asks 59 of America's most celebrated choreographers in her five-year quest to understand the secrets of creativity...read more

Draws on the experiences of fifty-nine of America's most celebrated choreographers to offer insight into the creative process and the inspirations for some of their most noted achievements, sharing photographic portraits and vignettes based on intimate conversations with such figures as David Parsons and Anna Halprin.

A little girl questions a number printed on her grandfather's arm and he explains how he received it in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.