The Black Dancing Body

BRENDA DIXON GOTTSCHILD is Professor Emeritus of dance studies at Temple University and Research Fellow in the Center for Folklore and Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania. She has taught performance history, theory, and criticism. Formerly a professional dancer and actress, she writes for Dance Magazine, is the author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts and co-author of The History of Dance in Art and Education (3rd ed.).

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