Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out

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219 219 Abilio, David, 95, 96 activism work, 3, 35, 166, 171, 176, 182. See also community African cultures: ancestors and, 74–76; ancestral memory and, 13–14, 87; blood in, 86– 87; body movement and, 37, 53, 54, 199, 201;break-dancingin,14;circleassymbol in, 142–43; dance performances and, 76, 82, 96, 125, 126, 179, 200, 202; drumming and, 29, 30, 33–34, 130; East, 95–98, 100, 103, 104, 107–8, 110–12; folk tradition in, 75, 131; guardian spirits in, 76–77, 87; hair styles and, 44; identity and, 170; languages and, 78; names and, 11, 84; “natural ” dance ability and, 27; Primus and, 152, 195–96; resistance, and styles from, 67;slavetradeand,73,95–96;storytelling and, 72; style of dance and, 9, 24; summer institute workshops and, 177; theologies and, 139; warrior character and, 11; water in, 143; West, 22–23, 28, 130, 143; Westernculture,anddisconnectwith,110, 111, 112 African Diaries (dance), 199, 202–3 African Diaspora. See Diaspora agency: body and, 40, 51, 59–60, 210–11n22; dance performances and, 41; individual and, 38, 72, 97, 147, 210–11n22; narrators and, 70, 82, 97 AIDS, 89, 94, 177 Ailey, Alvin, 10, 212n8, 216nn16–17 Alexander, George, 43 “Alleyway Women” section in Self-Portrait, 19, 21 Amistad Rebellion, 192 Anarchy, Wild Women, and Dinah (dance): described , 125–30; “Dinah, Dinah, Dinah” section of, 127–28; “Girlfriends” section of, 12, 128–29, 129, 168, 201; “Moanin’” section of, 126–27; “Wild Women Don’t GettheBlues”sectionof,129–30,215n19 ancestors: ancestral memory and, 13–14, 41, 61–62, 87; as guardian spirits, 76–80, 82– 83, 87; storytelling and, 71, 74–76, 83, 87, 91, 94 Anderson, Benedict, 168–69 Anderson, Jack, 202 Angelou, Maya, 46, 155 Anti, Kenneth Kojo, 86–87 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 97 apple, as symbol, 114–16 Are We Democracy? (dance): described, 178–81; “Give Your Hands to Struggle” section of, 178–79 art, and folk traditions, 73–74 At the Bottom of the River (Kincaid), 131 audiences: healing and, 204–5; social discourse with, 5–6, 7, 180–81, 201; transformation for, 205; white, 47, 52, 186, 210n16; working , 4–5, 7, 47, 202, 210nn16–17 “Aunt Bell” section of Hair Stories, 49–50 autobiographies, slave, 64 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. “baggage,” and spirituality, 137, 185 Baker, Josephine, 212n31 Bambara, Toni Cade, 141 Banks, Ingrid, 52 baptism, 143, 144, 203, 215n16 Baptists, 74, 137, 178, 199 Barthes, Roland, 56 Bartmann, Sarah, 55–57, 59, 201, 210–11n22, 211n24 Battle, Stephanie (dancer), 139, 163 Batty Moves (dance): Bartmann legacy and, 201, 210–11n22; described, 54, 58–59, 210n18; healing and, 60; sexual abuse and, 53– 54; style of dance and, 37, 54–55; in twentieth-anniversary season, 201–2 Bauman, Maria (dancer), 15, 17, 32, 141, 203–4 Baumfree, Isabella, 61 Bears-Bailey, Kim, 196–9 beauty, of women, 45, 47, 51, 52–53, 81, 107–10, 115–16 Beloved (Morrison), 143, 163, 165 Best, Ravi (musician), 160, 163 Bible: God and, 73–74, 137–39, 147–51, 156, 158, 162; Jesus stories in, 137–38, 141, 155; mysticism and, 74; spirituality, and stories in, 155–56 Bitter Tongue (dance), 16, 34, 37, 180 Black Arts movement, 9, 67–68, 138 black men, 39, 63, 112, 196, 209n3, 211n25 Black Panthers, 67, 68, 189, 191–92 Black Power movement, 9, 62, 66, 67–68, 138 Blacksher, Dafinah, 130 black theology, 138, 139, 215n5. See also theology A Black Theology of Liberation (Cone), 138, 215n5 “BlackVenus,”55–57. Seealso Bartmann,Sarah Blanche on the Lam (Neely), 97 Blanshard, Richard, 137 blood: in African cultures, 86–87; AIDS and, 89, 94, 177; baptism by, 203; polluting nature of, 87; vampirism and, 81–84, 86, 88, 89, 90, 94 Boal, Augusto, 183–84 body: agency and, 40, 51, 59–60, 210–11n22; ancestral memory and, 41; body types and, 10, 15, 22, 63, 195, 201–2, 203, 208n22; burdens of parts of, 134; control of black, 39–40; exhibitions of black, 55, 211n25; gendered, 41; healing and, 40, 41–42, 165; as living sacrifice, 136; love of, 60, 165; male, 39, 209n3, 211n25; movement of, 37, 53, 199, 201; objectification of, 38–39, 42, 56–57, 59; overview, 36–38; performativity and, 40–41; power and, 39–42, 53, 58, 209n5; sexuality and, 15– 16, 57, 115, 116, 211–12n29, 212n31; slavery and, 39, 42, 55, 61, 62–63; soul, and separation from, 42, 163; spirituality and, 163; style of...