Title Joan Myers Brown & the audacious hope of the Black ballerina : a biohistory of American performance / Brenda Dixon Gottschild ; foreword by Robert Farris Thompson ; afterword by Ananya Chatterjea

Edition First edition Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 340 pages, 46 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) Contents 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 Summary 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 twentieth century and into the new millennium. Dixon Gottschild uses Brown's career as the fulcrum to leverage an exploration of the connection between performance, society, and race, beginning with Brown's predecessors in the 1920s and a concert dance tradition that had no previous voice to tell its story from the inside out. Brown's background and richly contoured biography are object lessons in survival - a true American narrative Notes Print version record Subject Brown, Joan Myers SUBJECT Brown, Joan Myers fast Subject African American dancers -- Biography Dancers -- United States -- Biography Ballerinas -- United States -- Biography African American dance -- History African Americans in the performing arts -- History African American dance African American dancers African Americans in the performing arts Ballerinas Dancers United States Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137512352 1137512350 9780230114081 0230114083 9780230114098 0230114091

Other Titles Joan Myers Brown and the audacious hope of the Black ballerina

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