Full Description
Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.
Contents
Foreword: Ballet Becomes Black Uplift; R.F.Thompson
Prelude
Prologue
The Backdrop: 1920s-1940s
Spectacularly Black on Black: 1940s-1950s
But Black is Beautiful!: 1950s-1980s
'Nose to the Grindstone, Head to the Stars'
The Philadelphia/Philadanco Aesthetic
Audacious Hope: The House That Joan Built: 1980s-21st Century
Epilogue
Afterword: Brenda Dixon Gottschild: A Critical Perspective; A.Chatterjea
Joan Myers Brown: Annotated Resume
Philadanco Home Seasons Repertory Chronology: 1975-2010
Philadanco Choreographer Profiles
Dance Practitioners Mentioned in Text
Philadanco Activity Schedule: August 2009-June 2011
Interviewees: 1985, 1988, 2008-09