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Tap dance, a fusion of Irish and African American movements, was made popular at this time by Black dancers, including Bill Bojangles Robinson, John Bubbles, and the Nicholas Brothers. Shows from this era introduced dances like the Cakewalk, Juba , Pigeon Wing, and Possum Walk to more audiences.
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The Spirit Moves: A History of Black Social Dance on Film, 1900–1986 is a documentary film by Mura Dehn chronicling the evolution of African-American social dance throughout most of the 20th century. In its original form it consists of nearly six hours of rare archival footage shot over the course of thirty years.
In a New York Times review on February 19, 1940, dance critic John Martin wrote of Dunham: "Her performance with her group last Sunday at the Windsor Theatre may very well become a historic occasion, for certainly never before in all efforts of recent years to establish Negro dance as a serious medium has there been so convincing and ...
The American Negro Ballet was originally composed of twenty [7] to thirty jazz dancers who were recruited to perform in a modern dance concert. [2] The company's principals included Lavinia Williams , Al Bledger, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 15 ] Coleman Hill, Harry Young, [ 16 ] and Beryl James, who danced in the group's production of Stravinsky 's "Firebird."
McKayle formed and directed his own dance company, Donald McKayle and Dancers (1951–69), and was the head of the Inner City Repertory Dance Company from 1970 to 1974. [13] He maintained relationships with companies that are repositories of his work including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the Cleveland San Jose Ballet , and the Los ...
Winfield used the black body in dance and other art forms as raw material in order to show racial configuration within his company to an audience. Winfield projected this "new negro" in support of the Harlem Renaissance , a movement referring to the artistic and sociocultural awakening among African-Americans during the 1920s and 1930s as a ...
Talley Beatty (22 December 1918 – 29 April 1995) was born in Cedar Grove, Louisiana, a section of Shreveport, but grew up in Chicago, Illinois.He is considered one of the greatest of African American choreographers, and also bears the titles dancer, doctor, and dance company director.