Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina

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A Biohistory of American Performance

ISBN: 0230114083
ISBN 13: 9780230114081
Autor: Loparo, Kenneth A
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xxx, 341 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.01.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

While 2010 is the fortieth anniversary of the Philadelphia Dance Company and the fiftieth Anniversary of the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, this project will be released next year and marketed with updated information from anniversary celebrations More than 15 original and previously unpublished oral interviews appear in the book, including: Joan Myers Brown; select PHILADANCO members from the current ensemble and former members who moved on to other national/international venues; world-class choreographers; native Philadelphia professionals with international reputations; and (in interviews conducted during 1985 and 1988) eminent dance figures who are no longer livingDixon Gottschild is extremely well-known in the dance community (both as a performer and a scholar). She is enthusiastic about heavily promoting and marketing the book, using her extensive contacts online and in academia, in the Philadelphia community (in dance and among local bookstores), and nationally and abroad. Her close friendships with Myers Brown and the other individuals included in the book will contribute to the book’s marketing and publicity. She is willing to pay for her own book tour throughout Philadelphia, New York, and surrounding areasAs founder of PHILADANCO and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts (and as a personal friend of the author), Myers Brown has tremendous influence in the local community and her school has agreed to a bulk buy. Her reach nationally and internationally is impressive: Honored by the Kennedy Center; chairperson for the International Association of Blacks in Dance; founder of the International Conference of Black Dance Companies and the Coalition of Afro-American Cultural Organizations; Professor at the University of the Arts and Howard University; Associated with NEFA’s National Dance Project, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Forum for Female Executives, and the Rockefeller Foundation Arts & Humanities Program. There are a number of videos of her on YouTubeThis book (which is relevant for performance history, cultural studies, African-American studies, and sociology/gender studies) will be an excellent source for courses in dance history, black popular culture (dance, music, business), urban sociology, urbanization and the African American community, urban inequality, Philadelphia history, African American history, and black business traditions

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Beschreibung

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School 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 early twenty-first centuries.

Autorenporträt

Author Brenda Dixon Gottschild: 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 senior consultant and 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. She is the recipient of the 2013 Scholar Award from the International Association of Blacks in Dance.

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