Dancing in Blackness (eBook)

A Memoir

Halifu Osumare (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
400 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-6507-6 (ISBN)

Infos

American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsBefore Columbus Foundation American Book AwardDancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life and international career.Osumare's story begins in 1960s San Francisco amid the Black Arts Movement, black militancy, and hippie counterculture. It was there, she says, that she chose dance as her own revolutionary statement. Osumare describes her experiences as a young black dancer in Europe teaching "e;jazz ballet"e; and establishing her own dance company in Copenhagen. Moving to New York City, she danced with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company and took part in integrating the programs at the Lincoln Center. After doing dance fieldwork in Ghana, Osumare returned to California and helped develop Oakland s black dance scene. Osumare introduces readers to some of the major artistic movers and shakers she collaborated with throughout her career, including Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Jean-Leon Destine, Alvin Ailey, and Donald McKayle. Now a black studies scholar, Osumare uses her extraordinary experiences to reveal the overlooked ways that dance has been a vital tool in the black struggle for recognition, justice, and self-empowerment. Her memoir is the inspiring story of an accomplished dance artist who has boldly developed and proclaimed her identity as a black woman.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2019
• Vorwort: Brenda Dixon Gottschild
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b/w illus
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1970s • African American women • African-derived • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater • arts activism • Biography • Black and female in Europe • Black Arts Movement • Black Choreographers • Black Dance • black dance scene • cultural activism • dance as politics • dance lecturer • Dancers • Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir • dancing professionally • Diane McIntyre • Donald McKayle • Dr. Kwabena Nketia • European Nordic Region • Ghana • Halifu Osumare • Jazz Ballet • Katherine Dunham • Katherine Dunham Technique • Lincoln Center • Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts • Multicultural Arts Movement • New York • Ntozake Shange • Oakland Bay Area • Post-civil rights era • Race • Rod Rodgers • Rod Rodgers Dance Co. • San Francisco State University • S.F. Bay Area • Stanford University • the late 60s • vernacular and concert dance • West Africa • writing dancing
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-6507-0 / 0813065070
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-6507-6 / 9780813065076