Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey looks inside four of Doris Humphrey's major choreographic works-Water Study (1928), The Shakers (1931), With My Red Fires (1936), and Passacaglia (1938)-with an eye to how directorial strategies applied in recent contemporized stagings in the United States and Europe could work across the modern and contemporary dance genre. Author Lesley Main, a seasoned practitioner of Doris Humphrey choreography, stresses to the reader the need to balance respect for classical works from the modern dance repertory with the necessity for fresh directorial...