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

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional history reflects both the hardships and the accomplishments of African Americans in the artistic and social developments through the twentieth century and into the new millennium. Dixon Gottschild deftly uses Brown's career as the fulcrum to leverage an exploration of the connection between performance, society, and race, exploring a concert dance tradition that has had no voice to tell its story. Brown's background and richly contoured biography are object lessons in survival - a true American narrative. Includes interviews with a score of dance professionals, including Billy Wilson, Gene Hill Sagan, Rennie Harris, Milton Myers, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Ronald K. Brown. Brenda Dixon Gottschild is professor emerita of Dance Studies at Temple University and a former senior consultant/writer for Dance Magazine. She isthe author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance , Waltzing inthe Dark , and The Black Dancing Body ,. INDICE: Foreword: Ballet Becomes Black Uplift - Robert Farris 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: The House That Joan Built: 1980s-21st Century * Epilogue * Afterword: Brenda Dixon Gottschild: A Critical Perspective - Ananya 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: 978-0-230-11409-8
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 370
• Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés