Pages creations truly come to life and jump off the page thanks to Meglins thorough descriptions.... The analysis is particularly strong in exploring the music for each dance and how it contributed to the dramaturgy. There are fascinating collaborators for each work, and the chapters function as a making-of or behind-the-scenes look at her dances * Ellen Chenoweth, Dance Chronicle * a delicious dive into the imagination and artistic journey of a gutsy innovator.... Meglin offers the reader a visceral understanding of Pages creative process. * Lynn Colburn Shapiro, Wendy Perron / Notable Dance Books * an absolutely admirable work of dance scholarship. Although full of detail and history, the writing is fluid and highly readable--it often feels like storytelling * Thea Flaum, Chairman & President, Ruth Page Foundation * Meglins expertise as well as her passion for her subject matter shine through in her generous, rigorously researched, and comprehensive biography of Ruth Page. Meglin makes a compelling argument for a renewed examination of Pages overlooked contributions: this is a readable and engaging study of an American Midwestern choreographer whose works were unorthodox, experimental, inflected by the rhythms of jazzand female. * Karen Eliot, Emerita Professor, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University * Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work is an inspiring portrait of an innovative and boundary-breaking artist. Finally, a full-length study of a major woman leader in ballet, whose prolific career brought her into contact with many of the most celebrated artists in twentieth-century modernism. Meglins rich analysis of Pages workexperimental, collaborative, populist, and committed to a female point of viewoffers a timely and much-needed alternative to the discourse of neoclassicism that has long monopolized ballet history. Impeccably researched and elegantly written, this book is an extraordinary and essential contribution. * Andrea Harris, Associate Professor of Dance, University of Wisconsin - Madison * Dancer, choreographer, daughter, sister, wife, impresario, and visionary, Ruth Page... was an American dance treasure... The author uncovers Page's inquisitive boldness, spotlighting choreography-e.g., Alice in the Garden (1970) - that championed feminism and challenged gender roles. * Choice * Meglin, who has published widely on Page, is an established dance historian, choreographer, and dance re-imaginer. She expertly infuses methodologies from these areas into this meticulously researched, skillfully written, accessible tome. At its heart, this biography also functions as cultural history and dramaturgical analysis, weaving together engaging movement description, critical reception, sociopolitical and aesthetic contexts. The book wonders: What might a womans artistic directorship of a major ballet company in the United States look like? This central question ponders ... what experimentalism it might offer to ballet creativity, repertory, and audience development.... Meglins biography reveals a strong counter-narrative to monolithic ballet histories that present the art form as a purely highbrow, heteropatrichal product emanating from the genius of men in New York City. * Jen Atkins, Dance Research (Edinburgh, UK) * The author uncovers Pages inquisitive boldness, spotlighting choreography e.g., Alice in the Garden (1970) that championed feminism and challenged gender roles." * Ambre Emory-Maier, Choice * The book is very thorough and detailed, and if that's the kind of writing that speaks to you, this book is for you. For me, it's quite dense. I feel like much of the discourse about Page and the artists in her world, while fascinating, could have been abridged significantly. * Heather Desaulniers, CriticalDance *
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