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This week, Gwen and Frank wander through the wonderland of dance led by the dazzling Linda Murray, lead curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of NYPL's Library for the Performing Arts.  So, let's boogie!

First things first:  Fred Astaire!  Because, well...

Book Recommendations: 

Blood Memory:  an Autobiography by Martha Graham 

Dancing Women:  Female Bodies on Stage by Sally Banes

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 

Non-Book Recommendations:  

PS Dance! Dance Education in Public Schools (documentary that captures what happens when five NYC public schools students add dance to their daily studies.)

Heidi Latsky Dance Company, "is a New York-based modern dance company dedicated to redefining beauty and virtuosity through provocative and innovative performance and discourse, using performers with unique attributes to bring rigorous, passionate and provocative contemporary dance to diverse audiences." 

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