Description

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In a rich, diversified and international career, Carla Blank has been dramaturge, choreographer, stage director, writer, art and architecture critic, defender of women’ s rights and of a multicultural America, and more. Fortunately, she has recorded much of her experience in essays now gathered in a single volume.

From her role as stage director in Ramallah through a searing critique of bigotry on Broadway, the storming of the old boys’ citadel in architecture, a fine analysis of great women dancers and choreographers, such as the late great Suzushi Hanayagi, to the taking down of “ mainstream” cultural historians on abstract art and postmodernism, Carla Blank brilliantly puts words to what the “ ocean” of multicultural America feels.

In an exclusive interview with her partner Ishmael Reed, we learn how a curious young Jewish woman from Pittsburgh developed into a committed and eloquent public intellectual.

About the Author

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Carla Blank has distinguished herself as a dancer, choreographer, author, director, dramaturge, teacher, editor, journalist, and Jazz musician (violinist). Author or editor of five books, she has collaborated with choreographers such as Robert Wilson and Suzushi Hanayagi. She has directed plays and multimedia performances the United States, China, and West Bank Palestinian cities. Her articles have appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and El Paï s (Spain). Carla Blank lives in Oakland.