Dancing Revelations

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  Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

  By Thomas F. Defrantz, Thomas DeFrantz

  For example , in 1964 he codirected a production of Langston Hughes's Jerico - Jim Crow ( 12 January 1964 ) . A music travelogue performed in a Greenwich Village church , the production featured a gospel choir singing spirituals while ...

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  Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

  By Thomas F. Defrantz

  Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture Thomas F. DeFrantz. Sunday Morning—Sallie Wilson with Robert Brassel, ... Lighting design by Shirley Prendergast. Original order: “A Song for You” (premiered separately 25 April 1972) ...

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  Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

  By Thomas DeFrantz

  ... 234 Loy , Myrna , 229 Lula Washington's Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Theatre , 91 Lynch , Aubrey II , 185 Lynchtown ( choreo . work Charles Weidman , 1936 ) , 258 n.26 Lynn , Rosamund , 127 Magic of Katherine Dunham , The ( choreo ...

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  Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

  By Thomas DeFrantz

  This book charts the troupe's rise to national and international renown, and contextualizes its progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century.

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  Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

  By Thomas F. DeFrantz Associate Professor of Theater Arts MIT

  In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists.