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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Alvin Ailey |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas DeFrantz |
| ISBN: | 0195154193 9780195154191 0195301714 9780195301717 |
| OCLC Number: | 51304161 |
| Description: | xvii, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1: Revelations 1962 -- Why revelations worked -- BREAK Black modernism -- Situating revelations in African American cultural life -- 2: Early dances -- Ailey's childhood: race matters -- BREAK Unquenchable racial desire -- Blues suite -- Ailey's early dances -- Hermit songs -- 3: Early company -- Early years in New York -- Early residencies -- Southeast Asia tour -- BREAK "Official" African American culture -- Riedaiglia -- 4: Revelations II: 1969 -- BREAK Versioning -- Multiracial concert dance -- Revelations 1975 -- 5: Touring, touring, touring -- Quintet -- Swelling popularity -- BREAK Jazz dance -- Flowers -- The popular audience -- BREAK No exit from racism -- 6: Reflecting a spectrum of experience -- Masekela language -- The lark ascending -- Hidden rites -- 7: Other dances -- Feast of ashes -- BREAK Black dancer, white dance -- The river -- 8: Ailey celebrates Ellington -- The Ellington connection -- BREAK Heroes -- Ailey celebrates Ellington -- Pas de "Duke" -- Ellingtonia -- 9: Gender and spectatorship -- Cry -- Love songs -- Masked spectatorship: Ailey's representation of sexuality -- BREAK Sex -- Streams -- BREAK Black Atlantic dance -- 10: Later dances -- Memoria -- Au Bord du Precipice -- Survivors -- BREAK Alvin Ailey, public and private -- 11: Concluding moves -- The Ailey after Ailey -- Revelations 2003. |
| Responsibility: | Thomas F. DeFrantz. |
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"In Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture, Thomas F. DeFrantz sets out to provide an appraisal of one of the most important figures in the short history of American modern dance, as well as a 'stabilizing narrative' of his work. The result is an impeccable piece of dance scholarship--one that achieves its objectives and affirms Ailey's contribution to the African-American cultural canon...Dance students, scholars, and Ailey enthusiasts will all value this groundbreaking study."--Times Literary Supplement
"Dancing Revelations is an enjoyable read, not only for those concerned with Ailey's dances as they relate to larger struggles within American society, but for anyone who loves the art and artist."--Dance Magazine
"DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, critic
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- Ailey, Alvin.
- Dancers -- United States -- Biography.
- Choreographers -- United States -- Biography.
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
- African American dance.
- Dans.
- Choreografie.
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