Dancing in Blackness - A Memoir Osumare HalifuPaperback / softback
Dancing in Blackness - A Memoir Osumare HalifuPaperback / softback American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsBefore Columbus Foundation American Book AwardDancing in…
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Dancing in Blackness - A Memoir Osumare HalifuPaperback / softback
American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsBefore Columbus Foundation American Book AwardDancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. It was there, she says, that she chose dance as her own revolutionary statement. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life and international career.Osumare's story begins in 1960s San Francisco amid the Black Arts Movement, black militancy, and hippie counterculture.
Moving to New York City, she danced with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company and Osumare describes her experiences as a young black dancer in Europe teaching jazz ballet and establishing her own dance company in Copenhagen.
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