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Anderson, Jack: The American Dance Festival.Duke University Press, Durham 1987.(ISBN 0-8223-0683-2).; ADF has issued a series of humanities publications, including Philosophical Essays on Dance (1981), The Aesthetic and Cultural Significance of Modern Dance (1984), The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance (1988), its sequel, African American Genius In Modern Dance (1993), Dancing Across ...
McKayle formed and directed his own dance company, Donald McKayle and Dancers (1951–69), and was the head of the Inner City Repertory Dance Company from 1970 to 1974. [13] He maintained relationships with companies that are repositories of his work including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the Cleveland San Jose Ballet , and the Los ...
Ceremony Of Us was an interracial dance encounter between the Studio Watts Workshop, an African American arts organization, and the San Francisco Dancer's Workshop, Anna Halprin's dance company. The performance took place at the Mark Taper Forum, a venue of the Los Angeles Music Center, on February 27, 1969. [1]
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style and sought to create a new form of American dance accessible to the general public, which he called "dance for the common man".
Diversion No. 1, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Greek Theatre (Los Angeles), July 14, 1969. Masekela Langage, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Dance Festival, New London, Connecticut, 1969, then Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, 1969. [91] [92] Streams, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1970 ...
Cantilever (1963) Dedicated to American architect Frederick Kiesler premiered, Théâtre Recamier, Théâtre des Nations Festival, Paris, France. Dancer: Pauline DeGroot, Kelly Holt, Nancy Meehan, Erick Hawkins. Music by Lucia Dlugoszewski; To Everybody Out There (1964) premiered Palmer Auditorium, American Dance Festival at Connecticut College ...
Houston-Jones curated eight weeks of performances, panel discussions, video screenings and special events that included a diverse range of African, Caribbean and African-American experimental dance artists. [17] Some participating artists both in 1982 and 2012 were Bondell Cummings, Fred Holland, Ralph Lemon, Bebe Miller, and Jawole Willa Jo ...
Nimerichter began working for the American Dance Festival in 1991 as an intern. [2] In 1997 she worked on the production of the festival's documentary series Free to Dance and was nominated for an Emmy Award in Research. She co-produced televised recordings of the Broadway revival of The Women and the musical Fosse. [5]