Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina

A Biohistory of American Performance

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Kenneth A. Loparo

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Hardback

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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.

Author 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.

Release date Australia

January 11th, 2012

Author

Kenneth A. Loparo

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Contributions by Kenneth A. Loparo
Foreword by Kenneth A. Loparo

Illustrations

XXX, 341 p.

Pages

341

Dimensions

152x229x30

ISBN-13

9780230114081

Product ID

18248268

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