Published Works
A Dancer's Diary: Around the World in Thirteen Dances (2017)
A Dancer's Diary: Around the World in Thirteen Dances (2017)
A Dancer's Diary: Around the World in Thirteen Dances (2017)
This book is your passport to the mesmerizing, multicolored and memorable world of dance. Join the author on her journeys through the art of dance, including classical ballet, contemporary/modern, kathak, flamenco, and many other unique styles. With stops in Bali, Spain and Cuba, and additional performances/choreographers from China, Isra
This book is your passport to the mesmerizing, multicolored and memorable world of dance. Join the author on her journeys through the art of dance, including classical ballet, contemporary/modern, kathak, flamenco, and many other unique styles. With stops in Bali, Spain and Cuba, and additional performances/choreographers from China, Israel and Germany, each chapter forms a vivid account of the author's firsthand experiences; spanning performances and travels from 1983 to 2017. Combining memoir, travel writing and performance review, McDermott creates a lavish sampler of international dance. If you love dance, travel, cultural studies, music or visual arts, you will enjoy this narrative, written by a a professional dancer, teacher, choreographer with over thirty years in the field.
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Additional publications:
The New Yorker: Notes on Dance, July 29, 2019
Criticaldance.org-Moderator and Contributor
- Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet, April 2,2016
- Kid Pivot and Electric Company Theater: March 19, 2016
- Akram Khan Company in Kaash, November 14, 2014
- National Ballet of Cuba, June 20, 2014
- New Israeli Voices in Dance, Hillel Kogan and Danielle Agami, March 21, 2015
Contact Quarterly: "Dancing and Climbing Mountains: Choreographic Processes", Summer/Fall 1995
Woman Image Now: "Did You Ever meet a Woman who Wanted to be Pope?", Volume Four, 1989-1990
Birds of a Feather, a Memoir (2021)
A Dancer's Diary: Around the World in Thirteen Dances (2017)
A Dancer's Diary: Around the World in Thirteen Dances (2017)
Growing up in a family of six girls was by turns harrowing, hilarious and character-building, but never boring. Looking back on her childhood with a mixture of humor and incredulity, the author's tale takes the reader on a nostalgic dance down memory lane as seen through the prism of the COVID pandemic. Touching on themes of immigration,
Growing up in a family of six girls was by turns harrowing, hilarious and character-building, but never boring. Looking back on her childhood with a mixture of humor and incredulity, the author's tale takes the reader on a nostalgic dance down memory lane as seen through the prism of the COVID pandemic. Touching on themes of immigration, (her mother was a child of Hungarian immigrants) assimilation and memory, it invites the reader to contemplate their own ancestry and lineage and how our pasts shape our present and future.
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Tammy the Troll, A Dance in the Forest (2023)
A Dancer's Diary: Around the World in Thirteen Dances (2017)
Tammy the Troll, A Dance in the Forest (2023)
Dina's first children's book, presented by Once Upon a Dance publishers, is a storytelling treasure, written for the little ones aged 3-7. Kirkus said "this delightful narrative is a wonderful choice for dance teachers, librarians and other educators who regularly work with preschoolers. ...children will find the story charming." Story Mo
Dina's first children's book, presented by Once Upon a Dance publishers, is a storytelling treasure, written for the little ones aged 3-7. Kirkus said "this delightful narrative is a wonderful choice for dance teachers, librarians and other educators who regularly work with preschoolers. ...children will find the story charming." Story Monsters Ink says "Kids love moving along and acting out this sweet adventure. "For dancers or non-dancers, it can be read purely as a storybook or as a dance story/activity book. It's the charming, heartwarming story of a shy troll who lives alone in a hollowed out tree at the edge of the forest, and a group of friends who set out on a adventure into the woods to find and befriend Tammy. Movement, hilarity and beautiful butterflies will be experienced! Published by Once Upon a Dance. Available at Third Place Books/Seward Park, Amusements at McCaw Hall and on Amazon.