The Difference in Butterflies:

A Chinese dancer's memoir of her flight from inner and outer tyranny

Marilyn Meeske Sorel

Marilyn Meeske Sorel has published fiction and non-fiction using pseudonyms as well as her own name. She is a Pulitzer Prize nominee for a six- part print series ‘Vera, My Child’, a story of the death camps. She taught at UCLA, Dept of the Arts for some years where she conducted writing seminars. During this time Ms. Sorel hosted and produced AUTHOR, AUTHOR, for KCRW fm Los Angeles, a popular program featuring Ms. Sorel in conversation with writers. She currently lives in New York State and is awaiting the re-issue of her romantic thriller THE WHITE ISLAND.

Yung Yung Tsuai

Yung Yung Tsuai is currently teaching at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. She came to the United States on a scholarship directly granted to her from Martha Graham after a meeting in Taipei City, Taiwan in 1970. Since then she has worked with the Daniel Nagrin Workgroup, Pearl Lang and Dancers,  the Vanaver Caravan, and Susan Stroman. She founded the Yung Yung Tsuai Dance Company in 1980. She has taught, performed and worked as a visiting artist for NYU, George Washington University, Brigham Young University and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. In the past three decades she has worked with the Yangtze Repertory Theater, La Mama Theater, and the Papermill Playhouse among others.

Critics have described her work as:

"As rich in pain as in sweetness..." by Burt Supree, The Village Voice; "Blending the atmosphere of ancient China with a modern dance vocabulary..powerful and poignant..." by Doris Diether, Villager Downtown; "Fine gradations of delicate and forceful movement…fascinating..." by Jack Anderson, The New York Times.