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“In the chapters that follow, I illustrate the dance pedagogy created by Black dance artists in the 1930s and 1940s in America. I discuss the ways in which this dance instruction undergirded the emergence of the Black concert dance construct, which manifested in the late 1950s and took on a definitive global presence in the 1960s with the popularity of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. In this discussion, I document the dance contributions of dance pioneer Katherine Dunham and her peers, whose works blazed a trail for many contemporary dance artists.” -Dr. Elgie Gaynell Sherrod Other Dance Books 2007 – Reclaiming Charles Weidman (1901-1975) An American Dancer’s Life and Legacy 2006 – The Traditional Theatre of Japan: Kyogen, Noh, Kabuki, and Puppetry 2017 – THE INFLUENCE OF DANCE ON POETICS, PERFORMANCE AND ART (1830-1930): A Revisionist Explanation of the Modernist Aesthetic (Balzac, Mallarme, Colette, Duncan, Fuller, Duchamp)
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