Description: Pioneering AFRICAN AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL Rare 1983 Brooklyn Program + Ephemera 1983 Retrospective of Black Dance in America. A landmark dance festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) celebrating Black Dance, Blackness and the African Diaspora featuring performances reflecting the richly diverse traditions of African American dance. DANCE BLACK AMERICA Souvenir Program April 21 — 24, 1983 Published by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, 1983. First edition, first printing. Softcover, illustrated wraps, side staple bound, 8.5” x 10”, 47 pages, includes the festival program, articles by festival panelists, bibliography, filmography, and is illustrated with historic b&w photographs. VERY GOOD CONDITION: front cover has a penned date, light wear from age and use, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Also included is the 1984 touring booklet, 16 pages with five article on Black Dance and b&w photographs, and a six panel folding BAM mailer advertising the 1984 return of Dance Black America with an event titled Sweet Saturday Night. A dynamic presentation of African American dance celebrating over 300 years of Black dance featuring legendary Black dancers, choreographers, scholars, and dance companies. The performances covered key ethnic, modern and theater dance concert works by trailblazing Black choreographers from Asadata Dafora, Alvin Ailey, Katherine Dunham, and Blondell Cummings. Street and Social dance performances include the Catwalk to Breakdancing, and the Juba through Mama Lu Parks. The performers include The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (featuring Donna Wood and Gary DeLoatch), Garth Fagan’s Bucket Dance Theater, Mama Lu Park’s Jazz Dancers, The Charles Moore Dance Theater, The Chuck Davis Dance Company, Eleo Pomare, Chuck Green, The Magnificent Force, The Jazzy Jumpers, Al Perryman, Leon Jackson, Halifu Osumare, Dejan’s Olympia Brass Band of New Orleans, Rudy Stevenson Band, Ruth Brisbane, BISS Harmonizers, Fab 5 Freddy, Arthur Hall’s Afro American Dance Ensemble, Baba Chuck Davis, Rock Steady Crew, and many more. Click Here to View More Gardenenvy Items Please click here to contact me if you have any questions. SHIPPING by Media Mail is for US destinations only. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS Please See Calculated Shipping Costs For Your Country. Media Mail, though reliable, can be extremely slow, Priority Mail is also available. THANK YOU!!
Price: 245 USD
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Place of Publication: Brooklyn, New York
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: [African American] [Dance] [Performing Arts]
Publisher: Brooklyn Academy of Music
Topic: Black Power, Black Dance
Subject: African American, Performing Arts
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1983
