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Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)

Ariel Nereson

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Description:On the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, renowned choreographer and director Bill T. Jones developed two tributes: Fondly Do We Hope . . . Fervently Do We Pray and Serenade/The Proposition. These widely acclaimed dance works incorporated video and audio text from Lincoln’s writings as they examined key moments in his life and his enduring legacy. Democracy Moving explores how these works provided both an occasion and a method by which democracy and history might be reconceived through movement, positioning dance as a form of both history and historiography. The project addresses how different communities choose to commemorate historical figures, events, and places through art—whether performance, oratory, song, statuary, or portraiture—and in particular, Black US American counter-memorial practices that address histories of slavery. Advancing the theory of choreo-historiography, author Ariel Nereson celebrates Bill T. Jones as a public intellectual whose practice has contributed to the project of understanding America’s relationship to its troubled past. The book features materials from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s largely unexplored archive, interviews with artists, and photos that document this critical stage of Jones’s career as it explores how aesthetics, as ideas in action, can imagine more just and equitable social formations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance). To get started finding Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: On the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, renowned choreographer and director Bill T. Jones developed two tributes: Fondly Do We Hope . . . Fervently Do We Pray and Serenade/The Proposition. These widely acclaimed dance works incorporated video and audio text from Lincoln’s writings as they examined key moments in his life and his enduring legacy. Democracy Moving explores how these works provided both an occasion and a method by which democracy and history might be reconceived through movement, positioning dance as a form of both history and historiography. The project addresses how different communities choose to commemorate historical figures, events, and places through art—whether performance, oratory, song, statuary, or portraiture—and in particular, Black US American counter-memorial practices that address histories of slavery. Advancing the theory of choreo-historiography, author Ariel Nereson celebrates Bill T. Jones as a public intellectual whose practice has contributed to the project of understanding America’s relationship to its troubled past. The book features materials from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s largely unexplored archive, interviews with artists, and photos that document this critical stage of Jones’s career as it explores how aesthetics, as ideas in action, can imagine more just and equitable social formations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance). To get started finding Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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