TY - BOOK ID - 136242873 TI - La Meri and her life in dance : performing the world AU - Ruyter, Nancy Lee Chalfa AU - Project Muse. PY - 2020 SN - 0813058325 0813057248 PB - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, DB - UniCat KW - Dancers KW - Choreographers KW - Folk dancing. KW - La Meri, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136242873 AB - La Meri (Russell Meriwether Hughes, 1899-1988) was a performing artist, choreographer, teacher, and writer who built her career on ethnologic dance from many parts of the world. In addition to her practical work in dance, La Meri also published writings that set forth her conceptions, understandings, goals and methodologies. This book is both a biography of La Meri and an analysis of the significance of her theory and practice, with attention to her own performance, choreography, writings, and teaching. ER -