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

by Thomas F. DeFrantz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195301714
• ISBN13: 9780195301717
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"