The Black Dancing Body
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Author | : B. Gottschild |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137039000 |
What is the essence of black dance in America? To answer that question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black dancing body, to show the central place black dance has in American culture. From the feet to the butt, to hair to skin/face, and beyond to the soul/spirit, Brenda Dixon Gottschild talks to some of the greatest choreographers of our day including Garth Fagan, Francesca Harper, Meredith Monk, Brenda Buffalino, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, Fernando Bujones, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Jawole Zollar, Bebe Miller, Sean Curran and Shelly Washington to look at the evolution of black dance and it's importance to American culture. This is a groundbreaking piece of work by one of the foremost African-American dance critics of our day.
Author | : Brenda Dixon Gottschild |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : African American dance |
ISBN | : 9780312210274 |
The author invites the reader on a journey of sorts and says, "The black dancing body (a fiction based on reality, a fact based upon illusion) has infiltrated and informed the shapes and changes of the American dancing body."
Author | : Jane Desmond |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780822319429 |
Author | : Misty Copeland |
Publisher | : Hachette+ORM |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1455596310 |
The celebrated ballerina and role model, Misty Copeland, shares the secrets of how to reshape your body and achieve a lean, strong physique and glowing health. Misty Copeland believes "There has been a shift in recent years in which women no longer desire the bare bones of a runway model. Standards have changed: what women do want is a long, toned, powerful body with excellent posture." In other words, the body of a ballerina. In her first health and fitness book, Misty will show women how to find the motivation to get healthier and stronger, and how to reshape their bodies to be lean and flexible, with step-by-step advice, meal plans, workout routines, and words of inspiration. Celebrating the importance of healthy fats and a fitness regimen based on ballet exercises, Misty shares her own time-tested exercises and an eating plan focusing on healthy fats, both of which keep her in top shape. Tips for motivation and words of encouragement as well as tips on how to keep going even when you may want to give up. An inspiring section on the importance of finding mentors, and eventually being one, plus excerpts from Misty's personal journal, round out this important book on grace and strength.
Author | : Brenda D. Gottschild |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1996-05-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to correct and balance the record, investigating the Africanist presence as a conditioning factor in shaping American performance, onstage and in everyday life. She examines the Africanist presence in American dance forms particularly in George Balanchine's Americanized style of ballet, (post)modern dance, and blackface minstrelsy. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.
Author | : Yvonne Daniel |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780252072079 |
Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performances
Author | : Susan Leigh Foster |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780520063334 |
Winner of the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize Recent approaches to dance composition, seen in the works of Merce Cunningham and the Judson Church performances of the early 1960s, suggest the possibility for a new theory of choreographic meaning. Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Reading Dancing outlines four distinct models for representation in dance which are illustrated, first, through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers Deborah Hay, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, and then through reference to historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance. The comparison of these four approaches to representation affirms the unparalleled diversity of choreographic methods in American dance, and also suggests a critical perspective from which to reflect on dance making and viewing.
Author | : Thomas F. Defrantz |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2002-04-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0299173135 |
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 | : Mark Franko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780917786396 |
Author | : Sheila S. Walker |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742501652 |
This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas. Visit our website for sample chapters!