Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina

Author Brenda Dixon Gottschild: Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Waltzing in the Dark, and The Black Dancing Body, is Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at Temple University, USA, and a former senior consultant and writer for Dance Magazine. She lectures nationally and internationally, using her own dancing/thinking body to illustrate her ideas and blur the division between practice and theory. She is the recipient of the 2013 Scholar Award from the International Association of Blacks in Dance.

Foreword: Ballet Becomes Black Uplift; R.F.Thompson
Prelude
Prologue
The Backdrop: 1920s-1940s
Spectacularly Black on Black: 1940s-1950s
But Black is Beautiful!: 1950s-1980s
'Nose to the Grindstone, Head to the Stars'
The Philadelphia/Philadanco Aesthetic
Audacious Hope: The House That Joan Built: 1980s-21st Century
Epilogue
Afterword: Brenda Dixon Gottschild: A Critical Perspective; A.Chatterjea
Joan Myers Brown: Annotated Resume
Philadanco Home Seasons Repertory Chronology: 1975-2010
Philadanco Choreographer Profiles
Dance Practitioners Mentioned in Text
Philadanco Activity Schedule: August 2009-June 2011
Interviewees: 1985, 1988, 2008-09