Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to theCivil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African American culture. He not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progresswithin the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights stru…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-530171-7
- EAN: 9780195301717
- Produktnummer: 22677041
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.7 cm 540 g
- Gewicht: 540
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Thomas DeFrantz earned degrees from Yale, the City University of New York, and the Performance Studies Department of New York University. He organized the dance history program at the Ailey School, and is editor of Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance. His writings have appeared in the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, and the Village Voice. Also a performer and choreographer,DeFrantz has taught at NYU and Stanford University. He is currently Associate Professor of Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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