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Un tour d'horizon des voies empruntées par les chorégraphes et les danseurs afro-américains pour montrer, tout au long du XXe siècle, la richesse chorégraphique des "danses noires" et leurs enjeux identitaires.

African American dance --- Danses noires américaines

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Du charleston au lindy hop, des grands orchestres swing aux claquettes, des figures de danseurs mythiques de Broadway ou de Hollywood à la scène de récital ou aux clips vidéos, la danse jazz constitue le legs de l'Amérique à la danse du XXe siècle. Dans notre pays, elle demeure la danse la plus pratiquée, en dépit d'une politique de silence et d'occultation. Soulever un pan du voile qui recouvre la complexité insoupçonnée d'une expression artistique multiculturelle où s'éprouve l'un des plus beaux exemples de métissage réussi, tel est le but de cet ouvrage. Depuis l'Amérique coloniale jusqu'à nos jours, ce livre, unique dans l'édition française et appelé à faire référence, en relate toute la vivante aventure. Il conte l'histoire dramatique du peuple noir et du folklore créé au cours des siècles, des premiers métissages, de l'émergence d'une danse vernaculaire américaine jusqu'à l'apparition des danses savantes du modern jazz. L'histoire de la danse jazz restitue les principales phases et les grandes figures de cette danse en s'attachant aux significations qui replacent le créateur ou son œuvre dans le mouvement culturel de la réalité historique.

Jazz dance --- African American dance --- History. --- History --- Jazz dance - History. --- Jazz dance - United States - History. --- African American dance - History - 20th century. --- Jazz (danse) --- Histoire

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Steppin' on the Blues explores not only the meaning of dance in African American life but also the ways in which music, song, and dance are interrelated in African American culture. Dance as it has emanated from the black community is a pervasive, vital, and distinctive form of expression - its movements speak eloquently of African American values and aesthetics. Beyond that it has been, finally, one of the most important means of cultural survival. Former dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance, the Africanisms that have influenced it, and the significant role that vocal harmony groups, black college and university marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity stepping teams have played in the evolution of dance in African American life. From the cakewalk to the development of jazz dance and jazz music, all Americans can take pride in the vitality, dynamism, drama, joy, and uncommon singularity with which African American dance has gifted the world.

African American dance --- History --- Afro-American dance --- Dance, African American --- Dance

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Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Their unique aesthetic borrows from classical and contemporary dance techniques and theater characterization exercises, incorporates breath and vocalization, and employs space and movement to instill their performances with emotion and purpose. Urban Bush Women concerts are also deeply rooted in community activism, using socially conscious performances in places around the country--from the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and the Joyce, to community centers and school auditoriums--to inspire audience members to engage in neighborhood change and challenge stereotypes of gender, race, and class. Nadine George-Graves presents a comprehensive history of Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. She analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and participation in Urban Bush Women rehearsals. This illustrated book captures the grace and power of the dancers in motion and provides an absorbing look at an innovative company that continues to raise the bar for socially conscious dance.

Dance companies --- African American dance --- History. --- Urban Bush Women (Dance company)

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Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography in the twenty-first century, recovering and affirming the lifeblood of jazz in Africanist aesthetics and Black American culture.

Jazz dance --- African American dance. --- African American aesthetics. --- Racism --- United States --- Race relations.