Emergence - Cambigue Tracey, Susan

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Résumé :
Emergence - A Woman's Life through Poetry and Motion is a graphic memoir that tells the author's life story from her early years into her 80s. Poems range from charming ditties about a beloved rag doll and the skillset for a trapeze artist, to sad stories of the death of a child, and the author's own cancer. Through colorful and compelling photographs, the reader is treated to a bit of Americana that gets lost in this age of technology. You won't find Digital Nomads, but you will encounter generations of people living their lives in joy and creativity. No matter your age, whether you wish to revisit earlier days, are curious about your own future or that of your friends and family, Emergence has something to offer everyone. The party never has to end, though sometimes tears do flow. Join the author and celebrate your own life through Poetry and Motion.

Biographie:
Susan Cambigue Tracey is a dancer, arts administrator, nationally recognized educator, and a certified yoga instructor. She has written books and produced a documentary film about one of her many passions, namely, Chair Yoga. She graduated from UCLA with credentials in dance and physical education and became a dance therapist. Her legendary mentor, Bella Lewitsky, assigned Susan a pioneering role with the National Artists-in-Schools Project. For fifteen years she traveled across the U.S. as a Dance Movement Specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts. She founded and directed the Free Flight Improvisational Dance Company that performed in schools and in aesthetic spaces, with their program called Viewing Art through a Dancer's Eye. Susan has been on faculty at Loyola Marymount University, and was Chair for the California Dance Educators Association as well as for the California Alliance for Arts Education. For 25 years, she held the position of Director of Curriculum and Teaching Artist Development for The Music Center of Los Angeles County, where she continues part-time. Susan's life of words, in particular poetry, has caught up with her life in motion and the synergy has Susan creating hybrid pieces such as this book. She continues to refine her skills and sometimes redefine her life. Although poetry and movement are her passions, her first loves are her husband, and often collaborator of 40 years, Paul Tracey, and an adored family of children and grandchildren living in America and Europe - all depicted in her poetry collection, EMERGENCE.