TALK: the history of the School for New Dance Development

TALK is a book that describes the history of the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam: archived interviews and writings that have been produced over 30 years of the school's history.

TALK contains interviews with Pauline de Groot, Aat Hougée, Jaap Flier, Trude Cone, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Nancy Topf, Deborah Hay, John Rolland, Hooman Sharifi, Sasha Waltz. Besides, TALK offers essays by Robert Steijn, Thomas Lehmen, Scott deLahunta, Paz Rojo and Frans Poelstra, and a historical overview by Jeroen Fabius, the editor of TALK.

The book, designed by Esther Noyons, is illustrated by many black and white pictures and contains lists of all teachers and students between 1976 and 2006.

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TALK will be officially launched during the Springdance Festival on 25 April 2009 in the Kikker Theater in Utrecht.

You can order the book at www.theatrebookshop.eu. The price of the book is ¤20.

This publication was made possible with support from Nederlands Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten, The AHK research group Art Practice and Development, De Theaterschool Amsterdam.