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Dancing revelations : Alvin Ailey's embodiment of African American culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeFrantz, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Ailey, Alvin.
Dancers > United States > Biography.
Choreographers > United States > Biography.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
African American dance.
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Revelations 1962
  • Why revelations worked
  • BREAK Black modernism
  • Situating revelations in African American cultural life
  • 2: Early dances
  • Ailey's childhood: race matters
  • BREAK Unquenchable racial desire
  • Blues suite
  • Ailey's early dances
  • Hermit songs
  • 3: Early company
  • Early years in New York
  • Early residencies
  • Southeast Asia tour
  • BREAK "Official" African American culture
  • Riedaiglia
  • 4: Revelations II: 1969
  • BREAK Versioning
  • Multiracial concert dance
  • Revelations 1975
  • 5: Touring, touring, touring
  • Quintet
  • Swelling popularity
  • BREAK Jazz dance
  • Flowers
  • The popular audience
  • BREAK No exit from racism
  • 6: Reflecting a spectrum of experience
  • Masekela language
  • The lark ascending
  • Hidden rites
  • 7: Other dances
  • Feast of ashes
  • BREAK Black dancer, white dance
  • The river
  • 8: Ailey celebrates Ellington
  • The Ellington connection
  • BREAK Heroes
  • Ailey celebrates Ellington
  • Pas de "Duke"
  • Ellingtonia
  • 9: Gender and spectatorship
  • Cry
  • Love songs
  • Masked spectatorship: Ailey's representation of sexuality
  • BREAK Sex
  • Streams
  • BREAK Black Atlantic dance
  • 10: Later dances
  • Memoria
  • Au Bord du Precipice
  • Survivors
  • BREAK Alvin Ailey, public and private
  • 11: Concluding moves
  • The Ailey after Ailey
  • Revelations 2003.