Sarah Michelson, Modern Dance Series - Paperback Staff Picks rather than merely document the

rather than merely document the show

from Nelson’s 1946 design

one of the great collections of early-twentieth-century art and design

The Starry Night depicts the view from the artist’s window in the Saint-Paul asylum in the French countryside “a long time before sunrise

its counterweighted arms

Sarah Michelson, Modern Dance Series - Paperback Staff Picks rather than merely document theEdited by David Velasco. With contributions by Kathy Halbreich, Gia Kourlas, Ralph Lemon, Debra Singer, Claude Wampler, and Greg Zuccolo Sarah Michelson is an extraordinary choreographer. Never comfortable with success or the easy way out, she pushes questions to the wall, most recently with her Devotion series (2012), which transmutes the very history of dance and its worlds into an elaborate, constantly evolving exploration of the meanings of