Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston

by Anthea Kraut

Book Overview

Recovers an important dimension of the work of the renowned African American artist

While Zora Neale Hurston and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have become widely celebrated, she was also a prolific stage director and choreographer. In the 1930s Hurston produced theatrical concerts that depicted a day in the life of a railroad work camp in Florida and featured a rousing Bahamian Fire Dance as the dramatic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816647127
• ISBN13: 9780816647125
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"