| Description |
v, 202 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Geography -- Why I chose the word geography -- Haiti: the second time that I had seen real Black people -- A true story about coming to America as told by Stephen Senatus -- Haitian journal -- Memory drawings -- What I wrote on a piece of paper on the train to New Haven -- Geography -- August 1996. Abidjan: through the eyes of someone who should know better -- Ghana -- November 1996. Questions from Tracie Morris for Ralph -- December 3, 1996. A partial autobiography about race and art -- Second tit -- February 1997. A dream -- Rough-draft script for geography: a performance work in four parts -- A rough-draft physical performance scenario -- March 1997. Abidjan: the second exile -- Memory drawings -- April 1997. New York -- May and June 1997. New Haven: we are all together and now into the Oresteia -- On Orestes -- Workshop I -- Repose -- August 10-19: Maine -- Workshop II -- Young Apollo -- Young Apollo Travels -- Back in New Haven -- Geography. Synopsis -- The performance -- Preview week -- Young Apollo praying -- The tour -- Young Apollo dresses up -- Proteus -- Epilogue -- Geography. Performance text by Tracie Morris. Photographs by T. Charles Erickson -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors |
| Summary |
"Geography, a tapestry of journal entries, choreographic scores, drawings, and photographs, leads us through the creation of an evening-long dance, "Geography," a collaboration about being American, African, brown, black, blue black, male, and artist. This dance piece was a major departure for Ralph Lemon. In it everything is at stake - his identity, his politics, his art, his very way of moving. In order to create it, he traveled to Africa in search of dancers and a new relationship to the stage." |
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"The intimate, keenly observed passages in this artist's journal give us extraordinary insights on the process of dance-making - from the discovery of specific movements to the sometimes uneasy relationships between the dancers. At every juncture the collaboration posed difficult questions about representing African dance and culture within the context of modern America's post-slave heritage. The book beautifully documents Lemon's ability to negotiate different dance traditions without either erasing or cementing them."--BOOK JACKET |
| Subject |
Lemon, Ralph -- Diaries.
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| SUBJECT |
Geography (Choreographic work : Lemon) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001100608
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| Subject |
Modern dance.
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African American dancers -- Biography.
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Choreographers -- United States -- Biography.
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African American choreographers.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Diaries.
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Diaries.
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Biography
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Morris, Tracie.
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| LC no. |
00712498 00109218 |
| ISBN |
0819564435 |
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