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Dancing Revelations - Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture (Paperback, New Ed)
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Dancing Revelations - Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture (Paperback, New Ed)
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In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a
small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of
its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late
1960s, the company had become a well-known African American
artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In
Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's
journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier
institutions of African American culture. He not only charts this
rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes
this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay
rights struggles of the late 20th century.
DeFrantz examines the most celebrated Ailey dances, including
Revelations, drawing on video recordings of Ailey's dances,
published interviews, oral histories, and his own interviews with
former Ailey company dancers. Through vivid descriptions and
beautiful illustrations, DeFrantz reveals the relationship between
Ailey's works and African American culture as a whole. He
illuminates the dual achievement of Ailey as an artist and as an
arts activist committed to developing an African American presence
in dance. 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.
Throughout Dancing Revelations, DeFrantz illustrates how Ailey
combined elements of African dance with motifs adapted from blues,
jazz, and Broadway to choreograph his dances. By re-interpreting
these tropes of blackculture in his original and well-received
dances, DeFrantz argues that Ailey played a significant role in
defining the African American cultural canon in the twentieth
century. As the first book to examine the cultural sources and
cultural impact of Ailey's work, Dancing Revelations is an
important contribution to modern dance history and criticism as
well as African-American studies.
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