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Author : Gerald Eugene Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : African American dance
ISBN : UOM:39015082764302
Author : Richard A. Long,Joe Nash
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : African American dance
ISBN : 0847810925
Traces the influence of Afro-Anericans on modern dance, from cultural roots in pre-slavery Africa to recent Broadway productions
Author : Richard A. Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106010311345
Traces the history, motifs and fashions of Afro-American dance from the early minstrels, through the dance-dramas of Isadata Dafora, to the thriving dance companies of today.
Author : Luana
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Aesthetics, Black
ISBN : 9781483454795
What Makes That Black? The African-American Aesthetic identifies and defines seventy-four elements of the aesthetic through text and illustration. Using the magnificent camerawork of R.J. Muna, Sharen Bradford, Jae Man Joo, Rachel Neville, James Barry Knox, and more- as they point their cameras at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and jazz artists such as Cécile McLorin Salvant and Wynton Marsalis- a specific artistic consciousness or sensibility visually unfolds. Luana even joins the camera crew as she shoots Oakland Street Graffiti--Backcover.
Author : Dorothea Fischer-Hornung,Alison D. Goeller
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3825844730
A collection of essays concerning the black body in American dance, EmBODYing Liberation serves as an important contribution to the growing field of scholarship in African American dance, in particular the strategies used by individual artists to contest and liberate racialized stagings of the black body. The collection features special essays by Thomas DeFrantz and Brenda Dixon Gottschild, as well as an interview with Isaac Julien.
Author : John O. Perpener
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252026756
Provides biographical and historical information on a group of African-American artists who worked during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s to legitimize dance of the African diaspora as a serious art form.
Author : Susan Manning
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816637369
Two traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in a unique view of the history of American dance.
Author : Halifu Osumare
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813065076
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 : Ellen W. Goellner,Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813521270
Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as anti-theoretical, even anti-intellectual. Bodies of the Text is the first book-length study of the interconnections between the two arts and the body of writing about them. The essays, by scholar-critics of dance and literature, explore dances actual and fictional to offer powerful new insights into issues of gender, race, ethnicity, popular culture, feminist aesthetics, historical "embodiment," identity politics, and narrativity. The general introduction traces the genealogy of dance studies in the academy to suggest why critical and theoretical attention to dance--and dance's challenges to writing--is both compelling and overdue. A milestone in interdisciplinary studies, Bodies of the Text opens both its fields to new inquiry, new theoretical precision, and to new readers and writers.
Author : Julia L. Foulkes
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0807862029
In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning. Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers devised new ways of moving bodies in accordance with many modernist principles, their artistry was indelibly shaped by their place in society. Modern dance was distinct from other artistic genres in terms of the people it attracted: white women (many of whom were Jewish), gay men, and African American men and women. Women held leading roles in the development of modern dance on stage and off; gay men recast the effeminacy often associated with dance into a hardened, heroic, American athleticism; and African Americans contributed elements of social, African, and Caribbean dance, even as their undervalued role defined the limits of modern dancers' communal visions. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist. Modern Bodies exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education, Humanistic
ISBN : IND:30000121033652
Author : Constance Valis Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190225384
The first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, and Savion Glover.
Author : Thomas F. Defrantz
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299173135
Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums explores that influence through a groundbreaking collection of essays on African American dance history, theory, and practice. In so doing, it reevaluates "black" and "African American " as both racial and dance categories. Abundantly illustrated, the volume includes images of a wide variety of dance forms and performers, from ring shouts, vaudeville, and social dances to professional dance companies and Hollywood movie dancing. Bringing together issues of race, gender, politics, history, and dance, Dancing Many Drums ranges widely, including discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham’s controversial ballet about lynching, Southland. In addition, there are two photo essays: the first on African dance in New York by noted dance photographer Mansa Mussa, and another on the 1934 "African opera," Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman.
Author : Peggy Schwartz,Murray Schwartz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300155341
Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an intimate perspective on her life and explore her influences on American culture, dance, and education. They trace Primus's path from her childhood in Port of Spain, Trinidad, through her rise as an influential international dancer, an early member of the New Dance Group (whose motto was "Dance is a weapon"), and a pioneer in dance anthropology. Primus traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Israel, the Caribbean, and Africa, and she played an important role in presenting authentic African dance to American audiences. She engendered controversy in both her private and professional lives, marrying a white Jewish man during a time of segregation and challenging black intellectuals who opposed the "primitive" in her choreography. Her political protests and mixed-race tours in the South triggered an FBI investigation, even as she was celebrated by dance critics and by contemporaries like Langston Hughes. For The Dance Claimed Me, the Schwartzes interviewed more than a hundred of Primus's family members, friends, and fellow artists, as well as other individuals to create a vivid portrayal of a life filled with passion, drama, determination, fearlessness, and brilliance.
Author : Rebecca Rossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199791774
Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in American Jewish culture. This book delineates this rich history, demonstrating how, over the twentieth century, dance enabled American Jews to grapple with identity, difference, cultural belonging, and pride.
