Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance

Simmering passivity The Black Male Body in concert Dance Talks a lot about Alvin Ailey as a dancer choreographer He choreographed dancesthat were erotic masculine A heterosexual even though he was gay To be a black man in the us at this time they were expected To be very macho a masculine This led to choreographers such as Ailey to feel the need to conform to society's prejudice Alvin Ailey 11931 1989 studied performed with LesterHorton established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Blues Suite 1958 Revelations Born in Texas Trained with Katherine Dunham Horton Technique angular lots of vending at joint hinging at the hips In Revelations Stiff and lifted upper body Spiritual music Donald McKayle 1930 2018 Trained with New Dance Group concert dances speak to issues of social injustice moved away from abstraction Rainbow Round My Shoulder 1959 lots of repeated movement men moving rough seeming to be working chain gang woman moving gracefully elegantly lovers aren't ableto see each other Thewoman might be a ghost

Camille A Brown something that happens in a community that's social social dance helps them express themselves in her chorea but lets the dancer do what feels natural happens organically DAP dignity pride During Vietnam war Black soldiers created it to showequality February 24 2022 Intertextuality every text is an intertext There are multiple references in everything This is America Choreographed by Sherrie silver