Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance
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Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

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Ananya Chatterjea (Contributor) Robert Farris Thompson (Contributor) Brenda Dixon Gottschild (Author)  

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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. XXX, 341 p.
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.
  • Contributor: Ananya Chatterjea
  • Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN13: 9780230114098
  • Number of Pages: 341
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 604
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Release Date: 2012-01-11
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: 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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