"A richly illuminating work . . . Bennahum has done a noble service by rescuing the great artist Antonia Mercé, known as La Argentina, from the obscurity threatening to overtake her . . . a fascinating, informative, important addition to the library of dance history resources . . . For those of us who love Spanish dance, who have heard vaguely of a great artist named La Argentina, or who thought that the modern ballet had somehow missed Spain until the last decade, this work contains many a revelation."
~Dance Chronicle
""A richly illuminating work . . . Bennahum has done a noble service by rescuing the great artist Antonia Mercé, known as La Argentina, from the obscurity threatening to overtake her . . . a fascinating, informative, important addition to the library of dance history resources . . . For those of us who love Spanish dance, who have heard vaguely of a great artist named La Argentina, or who thought that the modern ballet had somehow missed Spain until the last decade, this work contains many a revelation.""
~Dance Chronicle
""Bennahum has revived the memory of a vital mover and shaker of the dance community; and in doing so she also examines Mercé's role as a feminist and modernist. A fascinating chunk of dance history restored to public eyes.""
~Dance Magazine
""La Argentina is without doubt the most influential Spanish dance artist of this, or any other, century. This is the first serious attempt to evaluate her contribution not only in the strictly dance field, but in the wider context of Spanish culture and the artistic movements of this century. It will be of great value to music and dance historians for its account of La Argentina's long collaboration with Manuel de Falla and its vivid descriptions of some of her important choreographic work, which is all the more valuable in the absence of any notated record.""
~Ivor Guest, author of The Ballet of the Enlightenment
"La Argentina is without doubt the most influential Spanish dance artist of this, or any other, century. This is the first serious attempt to evaluate her contribution not only in the strictly dance field, but in the wider context of Spanish culture and the artistic movements of this century. It will be of great value to music and dance historians for its account of La Argentina's long collaboration with Manuel de Falla and its vivid descriptions of some of her important choreographic work, which is all the more valuable in the absence of any notated record."
~Ivor Guest, author of The Ballet of the Enlightenment