Mura Dehn : champion of Black social dance and the traditional jazz dance company /

This book tells the relatively unknown story of Mura Dehn (1902- 1987) a white, Jewish dancer from Russia, once deemed among the most beautiful classical dancers in Europe, who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s. For the first time the efforts of Dehn to record, analyse and champion the dev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vaccaro, Kim Chandler (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Methuen Drama, 2026.
Edition:	1st edition.
Subjects:	Dehn, Mura. Jazz dance. Dancers > New York (State) > New York > Biography. Jazz (Danse) Danseurs > New York (État) > New York > Biographies. Dance. Black & Asian studies. Contemporary dance. Jazz.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Mura Dehn: Performer, Impresario, Writer, Filmmaker
Section 1: Augmenting and Illuminating Jazz Dance History 1930-1985
Chapter 1: Roger Dodge, Asadata Dafora, and Zora Neale Hurston
Chapter 2: The Traditional Jazz Dance Company, James Berry
Chapter 3: Documenting The Savoy, Break Dancing in Brooklyn 1978
Section 2: Dance as Cultural Artifact
Chapter 4: The Body Becomes Percussive
Chapter 5: Jazz Dance as a Barometer of American Culture
Chapter 6: Form, Function, Characteristics: A Model for Analysing Dance
Denouement: Lessons Learned from History
Bibliography
Index