Gestures of Genius is for all women seeking understanding of the history in their own bodies, an engaging, uplifting, and accessible book about recapturing freedom of movement. Rachel Vigier, dance and social theorist, begins with a brief overview of the history of women's dance and the relationship between society and sanctions on women's movement, then focuses on the histories of famous women with an important relationship to dance (including Isadora Duncan and Zelda Fitzgerald), and on contemporary women dancers from a variety of communities, whose stories of perseverance and dedication to the art of movement are enlightening, freeing, and joyful.
Included are twenty-four black and white photographs arranged as a picture essay on women's dance through the ages.

Rachel Vigier is the author of Gestures of Genius: Women, Dance, and the Body, and of a book of poetry On Every Stone (Pedlar Press, 2002). She is an alumna of the Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab, where she studied with Hanya Holm, Alwin Nikolais, and Murray Louis. Rachel Vigier’s poetry has been featured on CBC and online at Verse Daily. Her work has also appeared in Barrow Street, The Cortland Review, The Malahat Review, and in an anthology of writings, September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (Etruscan Press, 2002). She lives in New York City with her family.

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