Abstract
In this paper I use dance as a lens through which to examine the Black Arts and Black Power Movements. Despite the historiographical tendency to categorize dance as an auxiliary function of these social movements, I argue that dance is one of the primary means by and through which activists and artists distribute messages of meaning to their community and to society. Conceptualizing dance broadly as rehearsed, improvised, and/or pedestrian movements, I analyze the gestural movements of Stokely Carmichael, and the concert works of Eleo Pomare to counter the danceless narrative that has misrepresented the Black Power and Black Arts Movements.
Presenters
Noel Price-BraceyAssistant Professor of Dance, Theater and Dance, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
DANCE,HISTORY,BLACK,ARTS,EMBODIED,RESEARCH
