Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion

by Susan Manning

Book Overview

At the New School for Social Research in 1931, the dance critic for the New York Times announced the arrival of modern dance, touting the "serious art" of such dancers as Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Doris Humphrey. Across town, Hemsley Winfield and Edna Guy were staging what they called "The First Negro Dance Recital in America," which Dance Magazine proclaimed "the beginnings of great and important choreographic creations." Yet never have the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816637369
• ISBN13: 9780816637362
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"