The Body Can Speak: Essays on Creative Movement Education with Emphasis on Dance and Drama

Annelise Mertz is a professor emerita of dance at Washington University where she founded the dance division of the performing arts department and directed it for thirty-one years. She is also founder and former artistic director of the St. Louis Dancers, for whom she has choreographed performances at the Edison Theatre, the St. Louis Art Museum, Cooper Union in New York, and the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, Germany.Annelise Mertz is the author of 'The Body Can Speak: Essays on Creative Movement Education with Emphasis on Dance and Drama', published 2002 under ISBN 9780809324187 and ISBN 0809324180.