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  • The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

    Edited by Renée Alexander Craft, Kathy Perkins, Sandra Richards, Thomas DeFrantz ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers, including producers, theatre managers, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies

    Edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies encompasses the thinking that considers how people in motion craft worlds beyond worlds of imagination, culture, desire, intellect, and practice. Black Dance Studies, which brings together thinking and moving, is foundational to any manner of Black expression and political action. This handbook offers a broad look into it as a form of intellectual inquiry ... Read more

    $182.69 USD

  • Dancing Revelations

    Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

    by Thomas F. DeFrantz ...
    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 ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Dancing Revelations

    Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

    by Thomas F. DeFrantz ...
    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 ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Black Performance Theory

    Edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz, Anita Gonzalez ...
    Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Choreography and Corporeality

    Relay in Motion

    Edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz, Philipa Rothfield ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our emotions and prejudices, and our sense of public and private space. In so doing, they offer a multi-layered response to ideas of affect and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Hot Feet and Social Change

    African Dance and Diaspora Communities

    by Esailama Diouf, Yvonne Daniel, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, James Counts Early, Ausettua Amor Amenkum, Abby Carlozzo, Steven Cornelius0, Charles Davis1, Indira Etwaroo2, Habib Iddrisu3, Julie B. Johnson4, C. Kemal Nance5, Halifu Osumare6, Amaniyea Payne7, William Serrano-Franklin8, Kariamu Welsh9 ...
    The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents traditionalists, neo-traditionalists, and contemporary artists, teachers, and scholars telling some of the thousands of stories lived and learned by people in the field. Concentrating on eight major cities in the United States, the essays challenges ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... Read more

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  • The Artist's Mentor

    Inspiration from the World's Most Creative Minds

    by Ian Jackman ...
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  • Art Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
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  • Dance with Demons

    The Life Jerome Robbins

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