Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
A Biohistory of American Performance
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Product details:
- Edition number 2012
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US
- Date of Publication 11 January 2012
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780230114098
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages341 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XXX, 341 p. 0
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Long description:
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.
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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: The House 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
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