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Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
A Biohistory of American Performance
Palgrave Macmillan
December 2011
On Sale: December 15, 2011
370 pages
ISBN: 0230114091
EAN: 9780230114098
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Non-Fiction
Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and
the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's
personal and professional histories reflect both the
hardships and the accomplishments of African Americans in
the artistic and social developments through the twentieth
century and into the new millennium. Dixon Gottschild deftly uses Brown's career as the fulcrum
to leverage an exploration of the connection between
performance, society, and race—beginning with Brown's
predecessors in the 1920s—and a concert dance tradition that
has had no previous voice to tell its story from the inside
out. Augmented by interviews with a score of dance
professionals, including Billy Wilson, Gene Hill Sagan,
Rennie Harris, Milton Myers, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and
Ronald K. Brown, Joan Myers Brown's background and richly
contoured biography are object lessons in survival—a true
American narrative.
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