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Memory Walking with Urban Bush Women's Batty Moves
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 55, Number 1, Spring 2011 (T209)
- pp. 52-69
- Article
- Additional Information
Like the childhood songs and butt-shaking contests of Ghana, Batty Moves by the Brooklyn-based dance company Urban Bush Women celebrates the African American female form. The choreographer and the dancers share their memories of butt-tucking ballet classes, and the author shares her memory walk from Ghana to black America.