{"product_id":"like-the-sea-dancing-with-mary-glass-paperback-softback-9781531509545","title":"Like the Sea; Dancing with Mary Glass (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531509545","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLike the Sea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDancing with Mary Glass\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarol Mavor (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531509545\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 25 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"It's tempting to say that I ‘inhaled’ \u003ci\u003eLike the Sea,\u003c\/i\u003e except that metaphor seems wrong regarding a work that's so fluid, so amniotic. And while there's been ample documentation of the lives and work of some of the most significant figures in postmodern dance, this ‘biography’ expands the possibilities for exploring the ways in which an aesthetic practice is grounded in both political and personal histories. Mavor's Mary Glass is an uncannily convincing participant in this sphere, and the places where her life and those of 'real people' intersect are both illuminating and enthralling.\" - Barbara Browning, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gift.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the mythical Mary Glass - her art, her life, and her times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Glass (1946–2021) was an innovative modern dancer and choreographer, quietly instrumental to the San Francisco Bay Area art scene of the 1960s and ’70s - barely known today - admired for her experimental movements based on sounds and images of the Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a child, Mary Glass took her first dance class with Anna Halprin on her famed redwood dance deck in Marin County’s Kent Woodlands. Dancing with the blue sky as her ceiling - surrounded by magical madrones and redwoods - the effect on Mary Glass was seismic. Fittingly, Halprin called her classes \"dance experiences.\" \u003cbr\u003eMary Glass’s lifestyle, her anxieties, and her dance reflect the human geography of Northern California: Happenings, Zero Population Growth (ZPG), feminism, same-sex love, civil rights, Vietnam, environmentalism. Cascading in the waves of the politics of the time was Mary Glass’s anorexia, an unexpected pregnancy, and her life-long love affair with the Black painter Eliza Vesper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday Mary Glass is remembered by an increasingly diminishing handful of devotees. Author Carol Mavor is one of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this daring work of fictocriticism, where \"feelings are facts,\" \u003ci\u003eLike the Sea \u003c\/i\u003easks its readers—just as Anna Halprin asked of each of her young students as they were leaving class - \"What are you taking with you from the natural world?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHalprin’s words will resonate in Mary’s mind her entire lifetime and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the after-time of the prescient Mary Glass - with its decline of sea kelp and warm Decembers -  Mavor herself considers the Anthropocene, tasting extinction as if swallowing the long-gone abalone mollusks of her own Bay-Area childhood: salty, like the sea, but strangely sweet. And from it, Mavor delivers the reader to the far-away country of the not-so-distant past to help envision a future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are no photographs or films of Mary Glass dancing. The life of Mary Glass is nearly forgotten, her memory on the edge of extinction. In meditative, dazzling and lyrical prose, \u003ci\u003eLike the Sea \u003c\/i\u003etells us - like the ocean’s music in our ear - we need to remember extinction to imagine our way out of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface   xiii\u003cbr\u003e I Like Mary Glass   1\u003cbr\u003e Dance Is Our First Art Form   2\u003cbr\u003e Under a Nearly Cloudless Sky   4\u003cbr\u003e A Caul Should Be Kept for Life   9\u003cbr\u003e The Defeated Owl Spirit   12\u003cbr\u003e Lake Tahoe Never Blinks   13\u003cbr\u003e Alone in the Shell   15\u003cbr\u003e Taking Three Hundred Years to Grow into an Oak Tree   19\u003cbr\u003e A Desire to Steal   21\u003cbr\u003e Like Anything That Feels Really, Really Good   25\u003cbr\u003e Until They Are Lost   28\u003cbr\u003e The Pacific Is Made of the Blues of Mary's Dream of a Glass House   34\u003cbr\u003e Like the Jellyfish That Wash Up on the Beach That She Sometimes Accidentally Steps On   35\u003cbr\u003e Fairytale Modernism   38\u003cbr\u003e Appetite   43\u003cbr\u003e We've Danced with Ruth and Merce on Anna's Redwood Deck   44\u003cbr\u003e At Last, They Come Out—Explosively but Gently   45\u003cbr\u003e Heart Beating under Bark   50\u003cbr\u003e Mary Does Not Love Aaron   54\u003cbr\u003e I Could See That They Were Running and Skipping and To Me It Was Dancing   56\u003cbr\u003e Her Voice Is Voluptuous, Almost Masculine  58\u003cbr\u003e Even Though She Is a Vegetarian   62\u003cbr\u003e My Excited Pupils Enlarged \/ M. XXX   64\u003cbr\u003e The Secret That Was Melody's Alone   67\u003cbr\u003e In You   69\u003cbr\u003e Honey from Mr. Larkin's Bees   70\u003cbr\u003e Like the Noses of Rabbits   71\u003cbr\u003e The Stars Are Aligned   72\u003cbr\u003e Eyes Washed in Tears   73\u003cbr\u003e Girlfriends Who Traveled to the Other Side   75\u003cbr\u003e Mary Cannot Imagine That It Is Anything Serious   80\u003cbr\u003e Imagination Is a Killer   82\u003cbr\u003e The Nature of Grief   84\u003cbr\u003e The Same Thing   85\u003cbr\u003e Mary's Companion Lover   88\u003cbr\u003e He Will Lose Nico   89\u003cbr\u003e Into Her Skirt Pocket   90\u003cbr\u003e To Wait Is to Love   92\u003cbr\u003e Like a Drug in Eliza's Veins   94\u003cbr\u003e Pulled Out by Coda's Hot Light   99\u003cbr\u003e To Eat Is to Steal   101\u003cbr\u003e To Love Is to Wait   104\u003cbr\u003e Dance That Is All   105\u003cbr\u003e Time to Dance   106\u003cbr\u003e A Scale Model of Vietnam   108\u003cbr\u003e To Nourish   109\u003cbr\u003e The Halprins Are Friends of Godunova   110\u003cbr\u003e And No Birds Sing   111\u003cbr\u003e A Big Newfoundland Dog Named Carlo   112\u003cbr\u003e Mother of Black Dance   114\u003cbr\u003e Big, Drooling, Shedding Beast   115\u003cbr\u003e The Same Deep Thought   117\u003cbr\u003e The Knitting Is So Tender   120\u003cbr\u003e Down Haight Street   121\u003cbr\u003e No Strings   122\u003cbr\u003e Yucatecos Like Me Speak Maya   127\u003cbr\u003e Visible Stars, Even When the Sun Is Up   132\u003cbr\u003e Something Begins   133\u003cbr\u003e Mary Sees a Baby's Face in the Waves   136\u003cbr\u003e Curved as a Dolphin Bone Held in the Sea   138\u003cbr\u003e Eliza Says Her Sorrow Is So Great That the Mountains Changed Places and Began to Leak Milk   139\u003cbr\u003e Ocean's Time   141\u003cbr\u003e Blood Everywhere   144\u003cbr\u003e Nothing Inside of Mary   145\u003cbr\u003e No Song   146\u003cbr\u003e Is This What You Wanted?   147\u003cbr\u003e That Dark Involvement with Blood and Birth and Death   148\u003cbr\u003e That White Feather Floating on Top of the Sea   149\u003cbr\u003e What Happened?   150\u003cbr\u003e Would Something Else Have Happened?   153\u003cbr\u003e Until It Dissolves in One's Mouth   154\u003cbr\u003e The Heart Is a Safe Place \/ Especially if It Belongs to a Beloved Sister   156\u003cbr\u003e As She Fingers the Breath Holes of the Abalone Shell Again   160\u003cbr\u003e And Someone Turned the Moon Off   162\u003cbr\u003e To Disappear   163\u003cbr\u003e Like the Sea   164\u003cbr\u003e Afterwor(l)d   167\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  173\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIllustration Credits\u003c\/i\u003e   175\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  179\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670768054552,"sku":"9781531509545","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/like-the-sea-dancing-with-mary-glass-paperback-softback-9781531509545","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}