French Edition
Posted onMy copy of the French translation arrived today. Other than the font style, the design and layout are pretty much exactly the same as the original edition. Thanks for all of your support!
Interview: West Virginia Living
Posted onRead Bethany Dzielski’s interview with Joshua in West Virginia Living ︱27 June 2013. [read it here]
Interview: New Books in Dance
Posted onDr. Takiyah Amin interviewed Joshua for her New Books in Dance pod cast ︱27 August 2013. [listen here]
International: Intro2Modern
Posted onReviewed in Germany’s Tanz magazine︱July 2012 Recommended Resource in Modern Dance – Focus Course Profile. Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators, Canada︱2012
Domestic: Intro2Modern 3
Posted onDance Teacher magazine (online January 2013, offered as contest prize): Ideal for an undergraduate dance history of pedagogy course…[Legg] compares each artist’s methods through historical, cultural, pedagogical and aesthetic lenses. He also calls attention to the way the training of dancers has shifted [over time]…
Domestic: Intro2Modern 2
Posted on…His research is thorough…At the college or high school level, this would be a text that student might be asked to purchase in their freshman year in a dance program. It could then be used throughout the typical four years of study. Or, it could be well-used for a one-semester survey course of modern […]
Domestic: Intro2Modern 1
Posted onI believe every public school dance teacher should have a copy in her classroom.︱Pamela Sofras, Professor & Chair, Dance Department, UNC Charlotte Much needed concepts in one book for next generation teachers!︱Susan Kirchner, Professor & Chair, Dance Department, Towson University Useful for students in understanding roots/influences of contemporary dance. ︱Nada Diachenko, Professor & Co-Director, Dance […]
French Translation
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The French translation of my book, Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques, will be available in late August 2014 from Gremese. Une approche comparative qui vous permettra de comprendre et d’essayer les techniques des plus grands maîtres — grâce à des extraits de cours — et de comparer leurs diff érentes philosophies. De Martha Graham à Merce Cunningham en […]
After
Posted onAfter Opus No.: 50. Music: D. Shostakovitch. Genre/Cast Size: modern, female solo. Category: professional dancer. Location & Date: JoshuaLegg/DanceProjects, adjudicated concert, Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA)︱2008 . This work examines the ways in which we struggle to maintain our humanity during the fallout of a chaotic event, the futures that we try to glimpse, and the perseverance and faith […]
Water Study
Posted onThe Loudoun Project: Water Study (trailer) Opus No.: 68. (in collaboration with the company). Genre/Cast Size: site-specific, 6 dancers. Category: professional dancers. Location & Date: JoshuaLegg/DanceProjects, Loudoun Street, Winchester, VA︱2013. This site-specific dance was created in a splash pad with 28 fountains on a pedestrian walking mall. The work explored water as a location of […]