BUILDING THE VESSEL.
(San Francisco), [California]: (Printed by Scope Press), 1975.
Price: $450.00
About the item
First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by Hildegard Elsberg. [23]pp. Tall 8vo. Light brown pictorial wrappers printed in black. A near fine copy; rear cover has two faint creases at lower corner (text and illustrations are fresh and clean).
Item #333482
Nicely printed, illustrated and designed, in the form of an artists' book; a collection of dance poems, with illustrations by the author, presumably published on the occasion of a dance performance, choreographed by influential teacher Angiola Sartorio, with performances by students of Hildegard Elsberg. Hildegard Elsberg was born in Germany in 1906; she studied Modern Dance, under Kurt Joos, at the Westphalian Academy for Language, Movement and Music, and also studied physiotherapy at the Elsa Gindler School in Berlin. She taught at American schools and a Catholic convent in India (1937-1947) and then "she studied Wilhelm Reichian therapy and established a practice integrating East and West principles of psycho-spiritual awareness... Her career was highlighted by collaborations with Fritz Kunkel MD at his Institue in Los Angeles, with Alan Watts, and with the Guild for Psychological Studies..." [from autobiographical information in Hildegard Elsberg's third collection of verse, "All Rivers" (1991)].
