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Book Synopsis Judith Jamison, Aspects of a Dancer by : Olga Maynard
Download or read book Judith Jamison, Aspects of a Dancer written by Olga Maynard and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1982 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a brilliant American Dancer and the Troupe of performing artists with whom her name has become synonymous, the Alvin Ailey, American Dance Theater, . For sixteen years Judith Jamison has gifted the grandeur, power and grace. Her artistry has turned such works as Revelations, Cry, The Mooche and Pas de Duke into landmark pieces, ensuring dance history. (Taken from inside cover of book.
Download or read book Dancing Spirit written by Judith Jamison and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The candid and provocative autobiography of the first black superstar of American dance. Voices of those who have known and worked with her through the years are interwoven with Jamison's own to make Dancing Spirit a vivid portrait of a life lived without a moment's waste. 45 photos.
Book Synopsis Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater by : Jack Mitchell
Download or read book Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater written by Jack Mitchell and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clipping and miscellaneous material on reviews of Alvin, Ailey Dance theater performances and history.
Download or read book Ailey Ascending written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, this dazzling book includes both original black and white and full-color photographs by Andrew Eccles. This acclaimed photographer has been documenting the company for the past twelve years, and his breathtakingly beautiful images capture the dancers in performance, behind-the-scenes, and in stunning portraits. With a preface by Judith Jamison, artistic director of the company since 1989, Ailey Ascending reveals the passion and beauty of this award-winning dance troupe today.
Download or read book Dance & Fashion written by Valerie Steele and published by Fashion Institute of Technology (YAL). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dress and adornment have long played an important role in the visual allure of dance, and fashion designers have often been inspired by the way dancers look. This book features essays by 10 fashion experts who explore various aspects of the reciprocal relationship between dance and fashion, from the liberating effects of the tango to the influence of ballet on Japanese girl culture.
Book Synopsis Dancing Revelations by : Thomas DeFrantz
Download or read book Dancing Revelations written by Thomas DeFrantz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis My Story, My Dance by : Lesa Cline-Ransome
Download or read book My Story, My Dance written by Lesa Cline-Ransome and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In James E. Ransome’s realistic pastel portraits, Battle, his family, and his teachers all seem lit from within.” —The New York Times Book Review A boy discovers his passion for dance and becomes a modern hero in this inspiring picture book biography of Robert Battle, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. When Robert Battle was a boy wearing leg braces, he never dreamed he’d study at Juilliard. Though most dancers begin training at an early age, it wasn’t until Robert was a teenager that his appreciation for movement—first from martial arts, then for ballet—became his passion. But support from his family and teachers paired with his desire and determination made it possible for Robert to excel. After years of hard work, the young man who was so inspired by a performance of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations became the artistic director of the very company that motivated him. Today, under Robert’s leadership, Alvin Ailey continues to represent the African American spirit through dance. Featuring illustrations brimming with vibrant color and swirling motion, this biographical picture book from husband-and-wife team James Ransome and Lisa Cline-Ransome includes a foreword from Robert Battle himself as well as a bibliography, suggested further reading, and an author’s note.
Download or read book Alvin Ailey written by Jennifer Dunning and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1998-03-22 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alvin Ailey (1931–1989) was a choreographic giant in the modern dance world and a champion of African-American talent and culture. His interracial Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater provided opportunities to black dancers and choreographers when no one else would. His acclaimed “Revelations” remains one of the most performed modern dance pieces in the twentieth century. But he led a tortured life, filled with insecurity and self-loathing. Raised in poverty in rural Texas by his single mother, he managed to find success early in his career, but by the 1970s his creativity had waned. He turned to drugs, alcohol, and gay bars and suffered a nervous breakdown in 1980. He was secretive about his private life, including his homosexuality, and, unbeknownst to most at the time, died from AIDS-related complications at age 58.Now, for the first time, the complete story of Ailey's life and work is revealed in this biography. Based on his personal journals and hundreds of interviews with those who knew him, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Judith Jamison, Lena Horne, Katherine Dunham, Sidney Poitier, and Dustin Hoffman, Alvin Ailey is a moving story of a man who wove his life and culture into his dance.
Download or read book Revelations written by Alvin Ailey and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-class choreographer Alvin Ailey was a pioneer in the world of dance. Now, the intensely private man opens up to tell his own story in his own words. It is a revelation that will astound even those who think they knew Alvin Ailey--the man who forever changed the face and the rhythm of the world of dance. photographs.
Book Synopsis The Dance Claimed Me by : Peggy Schwartz
Download or read book The Dance Claimed Me written by Peggy Schwartz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In "The Dance Claimed Me," Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an intimate perspective on her life and explore her influences on American culture, dance, and education. They trace Primus's path from her childhood in Port of Spain, Trinidad, through her rise as an influential international dancer, an early member of the New Dance Group (whose motto was "Dance is a weapon"), and a pioneer in dance anthropology. Primus traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Israel, the Caribbean, and Africa, and she played an important role in presenting authentic African dance to American audiences. She engendered controversy in both her private and professional lives, marrying a white Jewish man during a time of segregation and challenging black intellectuals who opposed the "primitive" in her choreography. Her political protests and mixed-race tours in the South triggered an FBI investigation, even as she was celebrated by dance critics and by contemporaries like Langston Hughes. For "The Dance Claimed Me," the Schwartzes interviewed more than a hundred of Primus's family members, friends, and fellow artists, as well as other individuals to create a vivid portrayal of a life filled with passion, drama, determination, fearlessness, and brilliance.
Download or read book Dance We Do written by Ntozake Shange and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings. Many learned of Ntozake Shange’s ability to blend movement with words when her acclaimed choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf made its way to Broadway in 1976, eventually winning an Obie Award the following year. But before she found fame as a writer, poet, performer, dancer, and storyteller, she was an untrained student who found her footing in others’ classrooms. Dance We Do is a tribute to those who taught her and her passion for rhythm, movement, and dance. After 20 years of research, writing, and devotion, Ntozake Shange tells her history of Black dance through a series of portraits of the dancers who trained her, moved with her, and inspired her to share the power of the Black body with her audience. Shange celebrates and honors the contributions of the often unrecognized pioneers who continued the path Katherine Dunham paved through the twentieth century. Dance We Do features a stunning photo insert along with personal interviews with Mickey Davidson, Halifu Osumare, Camille Brown, and Dianne McIntyre. In what is now one of her final works, Ntozake Shange welcomes the reader into the world she loved best.
Book Synopsis Embodying Liberation by : Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
Download or read book Embodying Liberation written by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays concerning the black body in American dance, EmBODYing Liberation serves as an important contribution to the growing field of scholarship in African American dance, in particular the strategies used by individual artists to contest and liberate racialized stagings of the black body. The collection features special essays by Thomas DeFrantz and Brenda Dixon Gottschild, as well as an interview with Isaac Julien.
Book Synopsis Emma and Julia Love Ballet by : Barbara McClintock
Download or read book Emma and Julia Love Ballet written by Barbara McClintock and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story that follows the everyday life of two girls, one a professional ballerina, the other a student, both of whom love ballet.
Download or read book Ballerina written by Deirdre Kelly and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection--the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century--who often led double lives as concubines--through the poverty of the corps de ballet dancers in the 1800's and the anorexic and bulimic ballerinas of George Balanchine, starvation and exploitation have plagued ballerinas throughout history. Using the stories of great dancers such as Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Suzanne Farrell, Gelsey Kirkland, Evelyn Hart, Marie Camargo, and Misty Copeland, Deirdre Kelly exposes the true rigors for women in ballet. She rounds her critique with examples of how the world of ballet is slowly evolving for the better. But to ensure that this most graceful of dance forms survives into the future, she says that the time has come to rethink ballet, to position the ballerina at its center and accord her the respect she deserves.
Book Synopsis Black Dance in America by : James Haskins
Download or read book Black Dance in America written by James Haskins and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history of black dance in America, from its beginnings with the ritual dances of African slaves, through tap and modern dance to break dancing. Includes brief biographies of influential dancers and companies.
Book Synopsis Marion D. Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance by : Melanye White Dixon
Download or read book Marion D. Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance written by Melanye White Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication documents the work of pioneering ballet pedagogue Marion D. Cuyjet and presents a historical and descriptive study of her teaching career and school within its sociocultural context.
Book Synopsis Striking a Balance by : Barbara Newman
Download or read book Striking a Balance written by Barbara Newman and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no measure or science, no absolute approach, to the process by which an instrument of accuracy transforms itself into a dancer and learns to transform steps into dance. That process differs subjectively from artist to artist. If you want to know anything about it, or anything about the choices any given dancer has made and why, you must go straight to that dancer and ask. No one else can tell you, because no one else knows." -- Introduction.
