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Author : Jacksonville University
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Urban Bush Women written by Jacksonville University and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nadine George-Graves
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029923553X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Urban Bush Women written by Nadine George-Graves and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Their unique aesthetic borrows from classical and contemporary dance techniques and theater characterization exercises, incorporates breath and vocalization, and employs space and movement to instill their performances with emotion and purpose. Urban Bush Women concerts are also deeply rooted in community activism, using socially conscious performances in places around the country—from the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and the Joyce, to community centers and school auditoriums—to inspire audience members to engage in neighborhood change and challenge stereotypes of gender, race, and class. Nadine George-Graves presents a comprehensive history of Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. She analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and participation in Urban Bush Women rehearsals. This illustrated book captures the grace and power of the dancers in motion and provides an absorbing look at an innovative company that continues to raise the bar for socially conscious dance.
Download or read book Urban Bush Women written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Bush Women Collection written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection contains clipping, photograph, program and publicity files.
Author : Ama Oforiwaa Konadu Aduonum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Urban Bush Women written by Ama Oforiwaa Konadu Aduonum and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophia Jean Leiby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Urban Bush Women and Community Engagement Pedagogy written by Sophia Jean Leiby and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper investigates the [Urban Bush Women] summer intensive experience through an exploration of the company's community engagement curriculum and the culminating performance that served as the "public face" of the work." leaf 6.
Author : Paula Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (837 download)
Download or read book I Don't Know, But I Been Told-- written by Paula Collins and published by . This book was released on 1996* with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000155366
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Community Performance Reader written by Petra Kuppers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre studies curriculum. It brings together core writings and critical approaches to community performance work, presenting practices in the UK, USA, Australia and beyond. Offering a comprehensive anthology of key writings in the vibrant field of community performance, spanning dance, theatre and visual practices, this Reader uniquely combines classic writings from major theorists and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Paolo Freire, Dwight Conquergood and Jan Cohen Cruz, with newly commissioned essays that bring the anthology right up to date with current practice. This book can be used as a stand-alone text, or together with its companion volume, Community Performance: An Introduction, to offer an accessible and classroom-friendly introduction to the field of community performance.
Author : Thera Rasing
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825856113
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (561 download)
Download or read book The Bush Burnt, the Stones Remain written by Thera Rasing and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretation of female initiation rites among Christian women in contemporary urban Zambia. These rites are examined in the context of socio-economic changes. The emphasis is on ethnographic data gathered in the field.
Author : Ananya Chatterjea
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819567338
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Butting Out written by Ananya Chatterjea and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First major study of two important contemporary female dancers.
Author : CAConrad
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1940696003
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)
Download or read book ECODEVIANCE written by CAConrad and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The (Soma)tic Exercises are innovative and crucial to our art form. . . . Conrad must be one of the most original practitioners of poetry forging new territory."—The Rumpus "There was a time some of us believed poetry and poets could save the world; CAConrad never stopped believing it."—The Huffington Post From "M.I.A. ESCALATOR": The ultrasound machine gives the parents the ability to talk to the unborn by their gender, taking the intersexed nine-month conversation away from the child. The opportunities limit us in our new world. Encourage parents to not know, encourage parents to allow anticipation on either end. Escalators are a nice ride, slowly rising and falling, writing while riding, notes for the poem, meeting new people at either end, "Excuse me, EXCUSE ME. . . ." My escalator notes became a poem. CAConrad's ECODEVIANCE contains twenty-three new (Soma)tic writing exercises and their resulting poems, in which he pushes his political and ecological efforts even further. These exercises, unorthodox steps in the writing process, work to break the reader and writer out of the quotidian and into a more politically and physically aware present. In performing these rituals, CAConrad looks through a sharper lens and confirms the necessity of poetry and politics. CAConrad is the author of several books of poetry and essays. A 2014 Lannan Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, he also conducts workshops on (Soma)tic poetry and Ecopoetics.
Download or read book Women's Work written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Bush Women is an extraordinary dance/theatre company acclaimed for creating works that celebrate the heritage of African Americans. The company interacts with communities through workshops and performances. Using historic perspectives on dance, music, song and folklore, the company affirms many aspects of African American life.
Author : Peggy Schwartz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030015643X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
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.
Author : Keith Sawyer
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093582
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Group Genius written by Keith Sawyer and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating account of human experience at its best." -- Mihá Csízentmihái, author of Flow Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong? Group Genius tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity, revealing that creativity is always collaborative -- even when you're alone. Sharing the results of his own acclaimed research on jazz groups, theater ensembles, and conversation analysis, Keith Sawyer shows us how to be more creative in collaborative group settings, how to change organizational dynamics for the better, and how to tap into our own reserves of creativity.
Author : Judith K. Brodsky
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813576261
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Junctures in Women's Leadership written by Judith K. Brodsky and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third volume of the series Junctures: Case Studies in Women’s Leadership, Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts have made their mark by serving as executives or founders of art organizations, by working as activists to support the arts, or by challenging stereotypes about women in the arts. The contributors explore several important themes, such as the role of feminist leadership in changing cultural values regarding inclusivity and gender parity, as well as the feminization of the arts and the power of the arts as cultural institutions. Amongst the women discussed are Bertha Honoré Palmer, Louise Noun, Samella Lewis, Julia Miles, Miriam Colón, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Bernice Steinbaum, Anne d’Harnoncourt, Martha Wilson, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Kim Berman, Gilane Tawadros, Joanna Smith, and Veomanee Douangdala.
Author : Clare Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199958203
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Dancers as Diplomats written by Clare Croft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the twenty-first century, American dancers toured the globe on tours sponsored by the US State Department. Dancers as Diplomats tells the story of how these tours shaped and some times re-imagined ideas of the United States in unexpected, often sensational circumstances-pirouetting in Moscow as the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded and dancing in Burma shortly before the country held its first democratic elections. Based on more than seventy interviews with dancers who traveled on the tours, the book looks at a wide range of American dance companies, among them New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, ODC/Dance, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, and the Trey McIntyre Project, among others. During the Cold War, companies danced everywhere from the Soviet Union to Vietnam, just months before the US abandoned Saigon. In the post 9/11 era, dance companies traveled to Asia and Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
Author : Rachel Ann Howell
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Tools of Engagement in Urban Bush Women's Hairstories written by Rachel Ann Howell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: This thesis examines Urban Bush Women's contemporary dance work, HairStories, through the lens of three musical impulses as explained by ethnomusicologist Craig Werner: blues, jazz, and gospel. Werner developed this musical framework to analyze black music from the 1950's to the present to provide additional insight into America's struggle to be a democracy. Interestingly, Werner's theory can be applied to the movement and message of Urban Bush Women's HairStories to understand the piece's embodied method of grappling with the burden of America's racial history. Through the driving thematic concept of hair, choreographer Jawole Zollar and her company take the viewer on a journey that addresses black women and community. This journey intersperses personal history, notable hair figures, and creative representations of hair rituals to educate multicultural audiences, validate multiple voices, and reveal the necessity of community in challenging racist and sexist social injustice. Demonstrated through often humorous and sometimes tragic childhood stories of getting hair done, the blues impulse offers a cathartic release that allows overwhelming experiences to be bearable. The jazz impulse is evidenced through a Dr. Professor character, who questions assumptions of race and gender in language and movement. Jazz also encourages the constant process of redefinition - to self, to community, and to the past. The final impulse, gospel, suggests that redemption, transcendence, and freedom are found communally.
