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(Hardcover)
"Dance has come to America from every corner of the world in a seemingly endless stream of movement. Almost every known culture has a dance tradition, and as the United States is the crossroads of the world, every form of international dance can be found here." Photographer Brian Lanker traveled for a year documenting the numerous manifestations of dance in this country. Whether high art or the ubiquitous high school slow dance, his photographs and accompanying interviews show how central dance is to the American character. In Shall We Dance, Lanker celebrates some of the most astonishing accomplishments of the human body and captures how dance expresses the gamut of human emotion from sorrow to joy.