Dancing Many Drums: Excavations In African American Dance

Contributors

Contributors S B is Marian Hannah Winter Professor of Theatre History and Dance Studies at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of several books, including Terpsichore in Sneakers : Post-Modern Dance (1980) and Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage (1998), and is co-author of Fresh: Hip Hop Don’t Stop (1985). T F. DF is associate professor of theater arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he directs the dance history program at the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance. He is author of the forthcoming Revelations: Alvin Ailey’s Embodiment of African American Culture. He has published widely on the black body in concert dance, dance in the Black Arts movement, and hip-hop dance. N A. G earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University . She is assistant professor of theater studies and African American studies at Yale University. She is the author of The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater 1900– 1940. V G earned her Ph.D. in African American studies from Emory University and her M.F.A. in dance from the University of Michigan. She is associate professor of dance and chair of drama and dance at Spelman College. Her research focuses on contemporary African American women choreographers. She has published articles in Choreography and Dance, The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena, and EightRock. 343 344 /  B D G is professor emeritus of dance at Temple University where she taught performance history, theory, and criticism for more than twenty years. She is the author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts and Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era, co-author of the most recent edition of The History of Dance in Art and Education, and Philadelphia contributor to Dance Magazine. R C. G is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at NewYork University. He has taught at the City Universityof NewYork, Duke University, and Stanford University and is co-editor of the anthology Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure. He is completing a study of the Venus Hottentot. M E. H earned her Ph.D. in dance history from New York University. She was a protégé of Dr. Pearl Primus. She has danced with Joel Hall and Joseph Holmes in Chicago and now dances with Sabar Ak Ru Afriq in New York. C V H is a dance historian and critic based in Albany, New York. She holds a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University and organized the dance history program at the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance. She is the author of Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers and has written extensively on tap and jazz dance as well as other subjects. She is currently at work on a history of African and Irish influences in nineteenth-century American vernacular dance. D L H holds a Ph.D. in dance education from New York University. Former director of the Graduate Program in Dance at City College, she is the author of Michel Fokine and essays on ballet and modern dance. She was co-curator of Classic Black, an exhibition about African American ballet dancers of the 1940s and 1950s sponsored by the Dance Collection, the  / 345 New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She currently teaches dance history at the Juilliard School. M A MQ recently completed her Ph.D. in history at the University of Michigan. Her research is on leisure practices and urban subjectivity in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to writing about dance, Marya teaches dance and is working hard to become a salsera. M K. M is a noted photographer who has been chronicling concert forms of African diaspora dance for twenty years. A former dancer, he has performed with Pyramid Dance Theatre, Djoulé African Dancers and Drummers, and Art of Black Music and Dance. His dance photographs are in the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Newark Public Library, the Center for Cuban Studies, and the New Jersey Historical Society. M N is associate professor of dance history at Vanderbilt University. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University and earned her Ph.D. from New York University. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities summer...