Joan Myers Brown & the audacious hope of the black ballerina: a biohistory of American performance

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company ( PHILADANCO ) and the PhiladelphiaSchool of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the earlytwenty-first centuries. BRENDA DIXON GOTTSCHILD Author of 'Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance', 'Waltzing in the Dark', and 'The Black Dancing Body', is Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at Temple University, USA,and a former seniorconsultant/writer for 'Dance Magazine'. She lectures nationally and internationally, using her own dancing/thinking body to illustrate her ideas and blur the division between practice and theory. INDICE: Foreword: Ballet Becomes Black Uplift; 'R.F.Thompson' - Prelude - Prologue - The Backdrop: 1920s-1940s - Spectacularly Black on Black: 1940s-1950s - But Black is Beautiful!: 1950s-1980s - 'Nose to the Grindstone, Head to the Stars' - The Philadelphia/Philadanco Aesthetic - Audacious Hope: TheHouse That Joan Built: 1980s-21st Century - Epilogue - Afterword: Brenda Dixon Gottschild: A Critical Perspective; 'A.Chatterjea' - Joan Myers Brown: Annotated Resume - Philadanco Home Seasons Repertory Chronology: 1975-2010 - Philadanco Choreographer Profiles - Dance Practitioners Mentioned in Text - Philadanco Activity Schedule: August 2009-June 2011 - Interviewees: 1985, 1988,2008-09

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11408-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 370
• Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés