Black Dance

Author : Christy Adair,Ramsay Burt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317429593

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British Dance: Black Routes by Christy Adair,Ramsay Burt Pdf

British Dance, Black Routes is an outstanding collection of writings which re-reads the achievements of Black British dance artists, and places them within a broad historical, cultural and artistic context. Until now discussion of choreography by Black dance practitioners has been dominated by the work of African-American artists, facilitated by the civil rights movement. But the work produced by Black British artists has in part been within the context of Britain’s colonial legacy. Ramsay Burt and Christy Adair bring together an array of leading scholars and practitioners to review the singularity and distinctiveness of the work of British-based dancers who are Black and its relation to the specificity of Black British experiences. From sub-Saharan West African and Caribbean dance forms to jazz and hip-hop, British Dance, Black Routes looks afresh at over five decades of artistic production to provide an unparalleled resource for dance students and scholars.

Author : Halifu Osumare
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813065076

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Dancing in Blackness by Halifu Osumare Pdf

American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Dancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life and international career. Osumare's story begins in 1960s San Francisco amid the Black Arts Movement, black militancy, and hippie counterculture. It was there, she says, that she chose dance as her own revolutionary statement. Osumare describes her experiences as a young black dancer in Europe teaching "jazz ballet" and establishing her own dance company in Copenhagen. Moving to New York City, she danced with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company and took part in integrating the programs at the Lincoln Center. After doing dance fieldwork in Ghana, Osumare returned to California and helped develop Oakland’s black dance scene. Osumare introduces readers to some of the major artistic movers and shakers she collaborated with throughout her career, including Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Jean-Leon Destine, Alvin Ailey, and Donald McKayle. Now a black studies scholar, Osumare uses her extraordinary experiences to reveal the overlooked ways that dance has been a vital tool in the black struggle for recognition, justice, and self-empowerment. Her memoir is the inspiring story of an accomplished dance artist who has boldly developed and proclaimed her identity as a black woman.

Author : Cheryl M. Willis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476649160

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Black Tap Dance and Its Women Pioneers by Cheryl M. Willis Pdf

While tap dancers Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell were major Hollywood stars, and the rhythms of Black male performers such as the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson were appreciated in their time, Black female tap dancers seldom achieved similar recognition. Who were these women? The author sought them out, interviewed them, and documented their stories for this book. Here are the personal stories of many Black women tap dancers who were hailed by their male counterparts, performed on the most prominent American stages, and were pioneers in the field of Black tap.

Author : Adesola Akinleye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319703145

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Narratives in Black British Dance by Adesola Akinleye Pdf

This book explores Black British dance from a number of previously-untold perspectives. Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, it looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture. It challenges the presumption that Blackness, Britishness or dance are monolithic entities, instead arguing that all three are living networks created by rich histories, diverse faces and infinite future possibilities. Through a variety of critical and creative essays, this book suggests a widening of our conceptions of what British dance looks like, where it appears, and who is involved in its creation.

Author : Carla Stalling Huntington
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786486953

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Black Social Dance in Television Advertising by Carla Stalling Huntington Pdf

The influence of dance upon consumers has long been understood by advertisers. This work investigates the use of black social dance in television advertising. Covering the 1950s through the 2010s in the United States, dance is shown to provide value to brands and to affect consumption experiences. An interdisciplinary work drawing upon anthropological, phenomenological and cultural theoretical approaches, the text provides a theory of dance for a culture that has consistently drawn upon African-American arts to sell products.

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780807091876

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Dance We Do by Ntozake Shange Pdf

In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings. Many learned of Ntozake Shange’s ability to blend movement with words when her acclaimed choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf made its way to Broadway in 1976, eventually winning an Obie Award the following year. But before she found fame as a writer, poet, performer, dancer, and storyteller, she was an untrained student who found her footing in others’ classrooms. Dance We Do is a tribute to those who taught her and her passion for rhythm, movement, and dance. After 20 years of research, writing, and devotion, Ntozake Shange tells her history of Black dance through a series of portraits of the dancers who trained her, moved with her, and inspired her to share the power of the Black body with her audience. Shange celebrates and honors the contributions of the often unrecognized pioneers who continued the path Katherine Dunham paved through the twentieth century. Dance We Do features a stunning photo insert along with personal interviews with Mickey Davidson, Halifu Osumare, Camille Brown, and Dianne McIntyre. In what is now one of her final works, Ntozake Shange welcomes the reader into the world she loved best.

Author : Wanda K. W. Ebright
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030324445

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Dance on the Historically Black College Campus by Wanda K. W. Ebright Pdf

This volume explores the history of dance on the historically black college and university (HBCU) campus, casting a first light on the historical practices and current state of college dance program practice in HBCUs. The author addresses how HBCU dance programs developed their institutional visions and missions in a manner that offers students an experience of American higher education in dance, while honoring how the African diaspora persists in and through these experiences. Chapters illustrate how both Western and African diaspora dances have persisted, integrated through curriculum and practice, and present a model for culturally inclusive histories, traditions, and practices that reflect Western and African diasporas in ongoing dialogue and negotiation on the HBCU campus today.

Author : Jamal Rasheed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735723894

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Black Boys Dance Too: Darnell Enters a Talent Show by Jamal Rasheed Pdf

Author : Christi Jay Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197559307

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Between Beats by Christi Jay Wells Pdf

Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. Author Christi Jay Wells shows how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz music's formation and development even as jazz music came to earn a reputation as a "legitimate" art form better suited for still, seated listening. Through the concept of choreographies of listening, the book explores amateur and professional jazz dancers' relationships with jazz music and musicians as jazz's soundscapes and choreoscapes were forged through close contact and mutual creative exchange. It also unpacks the aesthetic and political negotiations through which jazz music supposedly distanced itself from dancing bodies. Fusing little-discussed material from diverse historical and contemporary sources with the author's own years of experience as a social jazz dancer, it advances participatory dance and embodied practice as central topics of analysis in jazz studies. As it explores the fascinating history of jazz as popular dance music, it exposes how American anxieties about bodies and a broad cultural privileging of the cerebral over the corporeal have shaped efforts to "elevate" expressive forms such as jazz to elite status.

Author : Rodreguez King-Dorset
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786492046

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Black Dance in London, 1730-1850 by Rodreguez King-Dorset Pdf

The survival of African cultural traditions in the New World has long been a subject of academic study and controversy, particularly traditions of dance, music, and song. Yet the dance culture of blacks in London, where a growing black community carried on the newly creolized dance traditions of their Caribbean ancestors, has been largely neglected. This study begins by examining the importance of dance in African culture and analyzing how African dance took root in the Caribbean, even as slaves learned and adapted European dance forms. It then looks at how these dance traditions were transplanted and transformed once again, this time in mid-eighteenth century London. Finally it analyzes how the London black community used the quadrille and other dances to establish a unified self-identity, to reinforce their group dynamic, and to critique the oppressive white society in which they found themselves.

Author : Elizabeth McPherson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000685329

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Milestones in Dance in the USA by Elizabeth McPherson Pdf

Embracing dramatic similarities, glaring disjunctions, and striking innovations, this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America. Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, it traces dance in the USA as it broke traditional forms, crossed genres, provoked social and political change, and drove cultural exchange and collision. The authors put a particular focus on those whose voices have been silenced, unacknowledged, and/or uncredited – exploring racial prejudice and injustice, intersectional feminism, protest movements, and economic conditions, as well as demonstrating how socio-political issues and movements affect and are affected by dance. In looking at concert dance, vernacular dance, ritual dance, and the convergence of these forms, the chapters acknowledge the richness of dance in today’s USA and the strong foundations on which it stands. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses that embrace culturally responsive pedagogy and seek to shift the direction of the lens from western theatrical dance towards the wealth of dance forms in the United States.

Author : Misty Copeland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534474253

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Black Ballerinas by Misty Copeland Pdf

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author and American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland comes an illustrated nonfiction collection celebrating dancers of color who have influenced her on and off the stage. As a young girl living in a motel with her mother and her five siblings, Misty Copeland didn’t have a lot of exposure to ballet or prominent dancers. She was sixteen when she saw a black ballerina on a magazine cover for the first time. The experience emboldened Misty and told her that she wasn’t alone—and her dream wasn’t impossible. In the years since, Misty has only learned more about the trailblazing women who made her own success possible by pushing back against repression and racism with their talent and tenacity. Misty brings these women’s stories to a new generation of readers and gives them the recognition they deserve. With an introduction from Misty about the legacy these women have had on dance and on her career itself, this book delves into the lives and careers of women of color who fundamentally changed the landscape of American ballet from the early 20th century to today.

Author : Yelena Black
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408829974

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Dance of Shadows by Yelena Black Pdf

Dancing with someone is an act of trust. Elegant and intimate; you're close enough to kiss, close enough to feel your partner's heartbeat. But for Vanessa, dance is deadly - and she must be very careful who she trusts . . .Vanessa Adler attends an elite ballet school - the same one her older sister, Margaret, attended before she disappeared. Vanessa feels she can never live up to her sister's shining reputation. But Vanessa, with her glorious red hair and fair skin, has a kind of power when she dances - she loses herself in the music, breathes different air, and the world around her turns to flames . . . Soon she attracts the attention of three men: gorgeous Zep, mysterious Justin, and the great, enigmatic choreographer Josef Zhalkovsky. When Josef asks Vanessa to dance the lead in the Firebird, she has little idea of the danger that lies ahead - and the burning forces about to be unleashed . . .

Author : Hal Banfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1950279103

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I Am Dance by Hal Banfield Pdf

Award-Winning Journalist and Photographer Hal Banfield brings this photographic series to life in the pages of his first published book capturing the grace, beauty, and strength of black dancers in motion. I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer shines a spotlight on dancers from the concert to the commercial world of dance, and infuses stories from dancers, in their own words, about the space they hold in the world of dance, what dance means to them primarily and what being a dancer of color represents to them, especially. I Am Dance is an intimate encounter with dancers that will leave you not with just beautiful images to behold, but will also share with you a love and appreciation for the art of dance, with insight into the talent, passion, heart and revelations of dancers of color.

Author : Jacqui Malone
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0252065085

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Steppin' on the Blues by Jacqui Malone Pdf

Former dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance, the Africanisms that have influenced it, and the significant role that vocal harmony groups, black college and university marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity stepping teams have played in the evolution of dance in African American life.