Skin of Glass: Finding Spirit in the Flesh

by Dunya Dianne McPherson

Dunya's intense passion for dance took her from a small seaside New England town in 1972 to the Juilliard School in the heart of NYC s vibrant, edgy art scene. A decade later, healing from a serious injury, she turned away from a successful performing career and retreated to a monastic mountaintop community directed by a charismatic Iraqi Sufi Master a sojourn that opened a mysterious, beautiful inner world, and an understanding of dance as moving prayer. Her path became Dancemeditation. Part dance memoir, part erotic memoir, and part guidebook, this rich account of life in the body takes dance beyond performance into a transformative realm where the physical, emotional and spiritual powerfully entwine.

249 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2008

Reviews

[Laura Cunha · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Ann Evans · Rating 4 out of 5]

The focus of the book is unique -- it is a geography of the body, with its connections to dance, spirituality, friendship and love, memory, illness, and all of life. It is full of details which I had never read before about our bodies. It is written in intense, poetic prose with striking, beautiful metaphors and striking use of verbs throughout. The intensity of language became a bit recherche and dense, a bit tiring to read, toward the end of the book, but it is a hot tub of beautiful language and well worth reading for just that, for all interested in the craft of writing.