Barbara Sellers-Young is Assistant Professor of Dramatic Art at the University of California-Davis.

No one else has provided us with a book in English that begins to answer the questions Barbara Sellers-Young addresses about Japanese dance...This book gives us much to be thankful for. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno Dance Research Journal Sellers-Young is at once scholarly and readable. [Her book] is both an ethnographic study and a journal of personal growth. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno Sellers-Young is at once scholarly and readable. [Her book] is both an ethnographic study and a journal of personal growth. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno No one else has provided us with a book in English that begins to answer the questions Barbara Sellers-Young addresses about Japanese dance...This book gives us much to be thankful for. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno Dance Research Journal