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Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture de Thomas F. DeFrantz

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

Autor Thomas F. DeFrantz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2006

În calitate de critici care explorează intersecția dintre mișcare și identitate politică, considerăm că volumul semnat de Thomas F. DeFrantz este o lucrare de referință care transcende simpla cronică de spectacol. Autorul nu se limitează la a descrie pașii de dans, ci reconstruiește, cu o sensibilitate rară, modul în care corpul uman devine un manifest pentru libertate. Experimentăm, prin paginile sale, transformarea Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dintr-un ansamblu multiracial restrâns într-o forță culturală globală, strâns legată de lupta pentru drepturi civile.

Reținem forța cu care Dancing Revelations analizează spectacole emblematice precum „Revelations”, folosind mărturii directe ale dansatorilor și înregistrări de arhivă pentru a ilumina geniul lui Ailey. Stilul narativ este unul senzorial; simțim ritmul de blues și jazz care infuzează coregrafiile, înțelegând cum elementele tradiționale africane au fost reinterpretate pentru scena modernă. Complementar lucrării Edges of Ailey de Adrienne Edwards, care oferă o perspectivă vizuală și artistică vastă, Dancing Revelations aduce o rigoare academică și o analiză a impactului social, fiind totodată mult mai tehnic și analitic decât omagiul poetic adus de Robértu Ras Riley în Life Dances Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

În contextul operei sale, Thomas F. DeFrantz continuă aici temele explorate în The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies, unde cercetează modul în care mișcarea modelează cultura. Dacă în Hot Feet and Social Change se concentrează pe diversitatea diasporei africane, în volumul de față el ancorează experiența coregrafică în realitățile politice ale Americii de la finele secolului XX. Este o lectură densă, dar fluidă, care transformă istoria dansului într-o experiență viscerală a identității.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195301717
ISBN-10: 0195301714
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 50 halftones
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui pasionat de artele spectacolului care dorește să înțeleagă cum dansul poate schimba societatea. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care Alvin Ailey a integrat jazz-ul și blues-ul în canonul cultural universal. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege nu doar tehnica dansului modern, ci și rolul acestuia ca instrument de rezistență și afirmare a demnității umane.

Despre autor

Thomas F. DeFrantz este un distins universitar și specialist în studiile dansului, recunoscut pentru cercetările sale aprofundate asupra prezenței afro-americane în artele spectacolului. Expertiza sa se extinde dincolo de istoria dansului, abordând teme de identitate, tehnologie și activism cultural. Prin lucrări precum The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies și Hot Feet and Social Change, DeFrantz s-a impus ca o voce autoritară care conectează mișcarea corporală cu mișcările sociale, oferind o bază teoretică solidă pentru înțelegerea expresiei artistice negre în context global.

Descriere

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. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African American culture. He not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century. DeFrantz examines the most celebrated Ailey dances, including Revelations, drawing on video recordings of Ailey's dances, published interviews, oral histories, and his own interviews with former Ailey company dancers. Through vivid descriptions and beautiful illustrations, DeFrantz reveals the relationship between Ailey's works and African American culture as a whole. He illuminates the dual achievement of Ailey as an artist and as an arts activist committed to developing an African American presence in dance. He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution. Throughout Dancing Revelations, DeFrantz illustrates how Ailey combined elements of African dance with motifs adapted from blues, jazz, and Broadway to choreograph his dances. By re-interpreting these tropes of black culture in his original and well-received dances, DeFrantz argues that Ailey played a significant role in defining the African American cultural canon in the twentieth century. As the first book to examine the cultural sources and cultural impact of Ailey's work, Dancing Revelations is an important contribution to modern dance history and criticism as well as African-American studies.

Recenzii

"In Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture, Thomas F. DeFrantz sets out to provide an appraisal of one of the most important figures in the short history of American modern dance, as well as a 'stabilizing narrative' of his work. The result is an impeccable piece of dance scholarship--one that achieves its objectives and affirms Ailey's contribution to the African-American cultural canon...Dance students, scholars, and Ailey enthusiasts will all value this groundbreaking study."--Times Literary Supplement
"Dancing Revelations is an enjoyable read, not only for those concerned with Ailey's dances as they relate to larger struggles within American society, but for anyone who loves the art and artist."--Dance Magazine
"Specialists in dance will find it a provocative analysis of Ailey and his contributions to American modern dance."
"DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape."--Village Voice
"Alvin Ailey was a warm and generous mentor and friend. He was also an artistic genius of the dance. Dancing Revelations is a valuable resource for everyone who has enjoyed a performance by the Alvin Ailey Aemerican Dance Theater."--Sylvia Waters, Artistic Director, Ailey II
"Alvin Ailey founded America's most famous dance company and created in Revelations its best known dance composition. Our wish for an appraisal of Ailey the artist and for a probing analysis of his choreography has been brilliantly answered by Thomas DeFrantz in this richly textured exploration of the Ailey legacy. The scholarship is impeccable, the analysis profound. Dancing Revelations is superb. Bravo!"--Richard A. Long, author, The Black Tradition in American Dance
"Surely Alvin Ailey's Choreographic Legacy deserves serious scrutiny. Finally, Thomas DeFrantz offers a complete analysis of Ailey's dances and their meaning. An important volume for anyone interested in the history of dance, African American culture, and how modern dance is viewed around the world today."--Donald Byrd, choreographer and Artistic Director, Spectrum Dance Theater

Notă biografică

Thomas DeFrantz earned degrees from Yale, the City University of New York, and the Performance Studies Department of New York University. He organized the dance history program at the Ailey School, and is editor of Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance. His writings have appeared in the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, and the Village Voice. Also a performer and choreographer, DeFrantz has taught at NYU and Stanford University. He is currently Associate Professor of Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.