Modern Dance, Negro Dance Race in Motion

Name: Modern Dance, Negro Dance Race in Motion
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ISBN: 9780816637379

ISBN-10: 0816637377

ISBN-13: 9780816637379

Edition: 2006

Authors: Susan Manning

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At the New School for Social Research in 1931, the dance critic for the New York Times announced the arrival of modern dance, touting the "serious art" of such dancers as Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Doris Humphrey. Across town, Hemsley Winfield and Edna Guy were staging what they called "The First Negro Dance Recital in America," which Dance Magazine proclaimed "the beginnings of great and important choreographic creations." Yet never have the two parallel traditions converged in the annals of American dance in the twentieth century. Modern Dance, Negro Dance is the first book to bring together these two vibrant strains of American dance in the modern era. Susan Manning traces the paths…

Book details

List price: $26.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English