WENDY PERRON, author of Through the Eyes of a Dancer: Selected Writings, had a thirty-year career as a dancer/choreographer. She danced with the Trisha Brown Company in the 1970s and choreographed more than forty works for her own group. She has been on the faculty at Bennington, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, The Juilliard School, and Princeton and has lectured on contemporary dance across the country, in Russia, and in China. As associate director of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in the early 1990s, she initiated the International Improvisation Workshop. The former longtime editor in chief of Dance Magazine, Wendy has also written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, Contact Quarterly, vanityfair.com, and publications in Europe and China. She has taught dance journalism at several dance centers and has co-curated exhibits on the intersection of dance and art. In 2011 she was the first dance artist to be inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Hall of Fame.