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DANCE NAKED IN THE SUN
an autobiography
by
Adam Darius
"This book is a revelation... Alone Adam Darius set out to conquer the world and conquer it he did. Like Pavlova, he chose a lonely and difficult path, seeking to bring his art to new audiences. These memoirs tell the fascinating and intimate story of his struggle and survival and his ultimate emergence as one of the world's foremost mime artists. Magnificently illustrated and eminently readable, we could not put it down."
John and Roberta Lazzarini, former curators,
Anna Pavlova Memorial Museum, London
"One of the greatest historical documents of the dance that I have ever read... Along with Isadora Duncan's My Life and Romola Nijinsky's book on her immortal husband, I would unhesitatingly add to that category Adam Darius's Dance Naked In The Sun.
"Be prepared to have a fever. I had it, for as long as the book was in my hands with its truth, charm, boyhood nostalgia and enveloping black night periods.
"My God, what a revelation Dance Naked In The Sun is, this winged story of a boy, nay, a spirit, seeking its own fulfilment, its own liberation through the magic of movement. Adam gives. So few artists in the dance today, drilled and moving like automatons, have ever touched the mainsprings or meaning of the mystic word give.
"Yes, Adam Darius, dance to give light, dance and get scorched in it to emerge triumphantly, inevitably, by dancing naked in the sun."
Ram Gopal, India's leading dancer, London
"The tenacity of Darius is amazing... there is something of Don Quixote in the way in which he has battled through the world."
Peter Williams, Editor, Dance and Dancers, London
"A masterpiece... destined to become one of this century's classics."
Louis H. Clark, prize-winning Australian poet, Melbourne
In UK: £6.50
In Finland: 16 euros
Hardback, 325 pages, 42 photographs
ISBN 0 9502707 09, published 1973
