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Urban Bush Women

Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out

By: Nadine George-Graves

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Urban Bush Women

Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out

By: Nadine George-Graves

Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Their unique aesthetic borrows from classical and contemporary dance techniques and theater characterization exercises, incorporates breath and vocalization, and employs space and movement to instill their performances with emotion and purpose. Urban Bush Women concerts are also deeply rooted in community activism, using socially conscious performances in places around the country—from the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and the Joyce, to community centers and school auditoriums—to inspire audience members to engage in neighborhood change and challenge stereotypes of gender, race, and class. Nadine George-Graves presents a comprehensive history of Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. She analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and participation in Urban Bush Women rehearsals. This illustrated book captures the grace and power of the dancers in motion and provides an absorbing look at an innovative company that continues to raise the bar for socially conscious dance.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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029923553X

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9780299235536

The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville

The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940

By: N. George-Graves

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The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville

The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940

By: N. George-Graves

The Whitman Sisters were the highest paid act on the Negro Vaudeville Circuit, Theater Owner Booking Association (Toby), and one of the longest surviving touring companies (1899-1942). The group was considered the greatest incubator of dancing talent for Negro shows on or off Toby, and significantly contributed to American theater and dance history. In The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville , Nadine George-Graves provides an historical narrative of their achievements and uses black feminist theories, feminist theories of performance, and theories of class and popular culture to analyze the many layers of performance in which the Whitman Sisters participated, on and off the stage. She shows that these four black women manipulated their race, gender and class to resist hegemonic forces while achieving success. By maintaining a high-class image, they were able to challenge fictions of racial and gender identity.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312225628

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9780312225629

Urban Bush Women

Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out

By: Nadine George-Graves

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Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out

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Urban Bush Women

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The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville

The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville

Urban Bush Women

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