Guerrilla Dancer

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Introduction1

Chapter One: Dances Against Comfort7

Chapter Two: Growing39

Chapter Three: If You Don't Jump In...69

Chapter Four: Passion93

Chapter Five: Prisoner117

Chapter Six: Last Battle127

Chapter Seven: Clear a Space and I'll Dance Rosa143

Chapter Eight: Before the Olympic Rowing Course161

Chapter Nine: The Dance Goes On ...179

Notes187

About Joan Stone191

Photographs

Figure 01. Joan and Harris Stone (foreground) at a rally protesting the Vietnam War, Washington D.C., Spring 1965.

Figure 02. Joan Stone, Guerilla Dancer.

Figure 03. "Hands Grasping Feet."

Figure 04. Speaking to students at a parochial school after performing When the Landlord Left . . . (1968).

Figure 05. Newspapers for a Greek Drama class at Yale (1968).

Figure 06. Downtown for a Greek Drama class at Yale (1968).

Figure 07. Climactic Poor Man gesture (1970).

Figure 08. Gesture from Passion in newspaper article about portrait of Rosa (1971).

Figure 09. "Clinging to oneself to keep from splintering." Passion, Section Three (1971).

Figure 10. "Counter motions that seem to be tearing the body apart." Passion, Section Three (1971).

Figure 11. "A flying motif." Passion, Section Three (1971).

Figure 12. "A flying motif." Passion, Section Three (1971).

Figure 13. Grieving gesture from Prisoner (1971).

Figure 14. Architecture students at the University of Kansas learning a gesture from Last Battle (1980).

Figure 15. Passion, Section Three (1971).

Figure 16. Passion, Section Three (1971).

Figure 17. Gesture from Edgewood Park . . . with a child watching (1972).

Figure 18. Flying gesture from Edgewood Park . . . (1972).

Figure 19. Joan Stone, Guerilla Dancer.