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- catalog abstract ""Watching contemporary American dance is a unique and electrifying experience. Swept along with the dancers, one wonders how the unorthodox movement and unexpected tempo came about. To provide at least one answer to this question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts a "geography" that maps a unique, yet startlingly ubiquitous, region of influence in the history of American dance: the black dancing body. The author invites the reader on a journey of sorts and says, "The black dancing body (a fiction based on reality, a fact based upon illusion) has infiltrated and informed the shapes and changes of the American dancing body." Using interviews with black, white, and brown dance practitioners as well as performance analysis and personal recollections of her own life in the world of dance, Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts the endeavors, ordeals, and triumphs of "black" dance and dancers by exposing perceptions, images, and assumptions, past and present. In her journey to discover the contours and importance of the black dancing body, the author has spoken to some of the greatest dancers and choreographers of our time - Fernando Bujones, Trisha Brown, Garth Fagan, Bill T. Jones, Ralph Lemon, Meredith Monk, Merian Soto, Doug Elkins, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and a cadre of their esteemed colleagues. The "embattled territories" of the black dancing body are probed chapter by chapter: feet, buttocks, hair, skin color. The whole of the black dancing body is "re-membered" in the final chapters on soul and spirit. The Black Dancing Body is a key to the ineffable rhythms and movement of dance in America."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13002543.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Watching contemporary American dance is a unique and electrifying experience. Swept along with the dancers, one wonders how the unorthodox movement and unexpected tempo came about. To provide at least one answer to this question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts a "geography" that maps a unique, yet startlingly ubiquitous, region of influence in the history of American dance: the black dancing body.".
- catalog description "In her journey to discover the contours and importance of the black dancing body, the author has spoken to some of the greatest dancers and choreographers of our time - Fernando Bujones, Trisha Brown, Garth Fagan, Bill T. Jones, Ralph Lemon, Meredith Monk, Merian Soto, Doug Elkins, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and a cadre of their esteemed colleagues.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-316) and index.".
- catalog description "The "embattled territories" of the black dancing body are probed chapter by chapter: feet, buttocks, hair, skin color. The whole of the black dancing body is "re-membered" in the final chapters on soul and spirit. The Black Dancing Body is a key to the ineffable rhythms and movement of dance in America."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "The author invites the reader on a journey of sorts and says, "The black dancing body (a fiction based on reality, a fact based upon illusion) has infiltrated and informed the shapes and changes of the American dancing body."".
- catalog description "Using interviews with black, white, and brown dance practitioners as well as performance analysis and personal recollections of her own life in the world of dance, Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts the endeavors, ordeals, and triumphs of "black" dance and dancers by exposing perceptions, images, and assumptions, past and present.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Topography of Things to Come: Ruminations on Dancing in a Black Dancing Body -- Latitude I -- 1. Black White Dance Dancers -- 2. The Physical Terrain -- Position: Bujones/Zollar Interviews -- Location: Who's There? -- pt. II. Mapping the Territories -- Latitude II -- 3. Feet.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 332 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0312240473".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog subject "793.3/089/96073 21".
- catalog subject "African American dance History.".
- catalog subject "African American dancers.".
- catalog subject "Body image.".
- catalog subject "GV1624.7.A34 G68 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Topography of Things to Come: Ruminations on Dancing in a Black Dancing Body -- Latitude I -- 1. Black White Dance Dancers -- 2. The Physical Terrain -- Position: Bujones/Zollar Interviews -- Location: Who's There? -- pt. II. Mapping the Territories -- Latitude II -- 3. Feet.".
- catalog title "The Black dancing body : a geography from coon to cool / Brenda Dixon Gottschild.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".