The Black Dancing Body

Brenda Dixon Gottschild is professor emerita of Dance Studies at Temple University and a former senior consultant/writer for Dance Magazine. She is the author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Waltzing in the Dark, and The Black Dancing Body. Dixon Gottschild is the recipient of the 2013 Scholar Award from the International Association of Blacks in Dance.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: TOPOGRAPHY OF THINGS TO COME: RUMINATIONS ON DANCING IN A BLACK DANCING BODY Latitude I Black White Dance Dancers The Physical Terrain Position/Disposition: Bujones/Zollar Interviews Location: 'Who Is There?' PART II: MAPPING THE TERRITORIES Latitude II Feet Butt Skin/Hair Location: 'To Be or Not . . .' PARTIII: THE CONTINENT Latitude III Soul/Spirit Blood Memories, Spirit Dances Position/Disposition: From Coon to Cool Location: Horizon Notes Bibliography