Author Renee D'Aoust visits Big Sur Library Feb. 18.
D'Aoust will read excerpts from her book “Body of a Dancer.” The book has been praised for its honest depictions of life as a modern dancer in New York City. D'Aoust writes about her experiences training at prestigious dance schools and clawing her way through the competitive world of professional dance.
This program is free to the public. Refreshments will be served. Seating is first come, first served. Call the library at 667-2537 or stop by the library desk for more information.
“BODY OF A DANCER” AUTHOR RENEE D’AOUST TO VISIT BIG SUR LIBRARY
Big Sur Library is pleased to announce the special appearance of former Martha Graham trained dancer-turned-writer Renee D’Aoust on February 18 at 12:00 p.m. D’Aoust will read excerpts from her well-received new book, Body of a Dancer, and hold a short writing workshop.
In a memoir Lance Olsen calls “fascinating, horrifying, unfalteringly honest,” award-winning writer Renée D’Aoust draws from her experiences as a modern dancer in New York City during the nineties. Trained at the prestigious Martha Graham Center, D’Aoust intertwines accounts of her own and other dancers’ lives with essays on modern dance history. Her luminous prose spotlights this passionate, often brutal world. Scarred, strained, and tough, bearing witness to the discipline demanded by the art form, Body of a Dancer provides a powerful, acidly comic record of what it is to love, and eventually leave, a life centered on dance.
Trained on scholarship as a dancer at Pacific Northwest Ballet and later at the Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance, Renée E. D’Aoust performed on proscenium stages and in black box theaters. Now as a writer, she has numerous publications and awards to her credit, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism at American Dance Festival, support from the Puffin Foundation, and grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. D’Aoust holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Notre Dame.
This program is free to the public. Refreshments will be served. Seating is first come, first served. Call the library at 667-2537 or stop by the library desk for more information.
Jenna G. Kelly
Big Sur Library Branch Manager
Monterey County Free Libraries
Phone (831) 667-2537
Fax (831) 667-0708
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