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Democracy moving : Bill T. Jones, contemporary American performance, and the racial past
- Title
- Democracy moving : Bill T. Jones, contemporary American performance, and the racial past / Ariel Nereson.
- Author
- Nereson, Ariel
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- xi, 278 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "On the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, renowned choreographer and director Bill T. Jones developed three tributes: Serenade/The Proposition, 100 Migrations, and Fondly Do We Hope . . . Fervently Do We Pray. 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 oscillation as Black aesthetic praxis, 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"--
- Series Statement
- Theater: theory/text/performance
- Uniform Title
- Theater--theory/text/performance.
- Alternative Title
- Bill T. Jones, contemporary american performance, and the racial past
- Subject
- Jones, Bill T
- Zane, Arnie, 1948-1988
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Anniversaries, etc
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company
- Performing arts > Social aspects > United States
- Performing arts > Political aspects > United States
- Racism and the arts > United States
- Dance > Social aspects > United States
- Dance > Political aspects > United States
- African Americans > Interviews
- African Americans
- Anniversaries
- Dance > Political aspects
- Dance > Social aspects
- Performing arts > Political aspects
- Performing arts > Social aspects
- Racism and the arts
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-738
- ISBN
- 9780472075126
- 0472075128
- 9780472055128
- 0472055127
- LCCN
- 2021040669
- OCLC
- 1237749836
- Author
- Nereson, Ariel, author.
- Title
- Democracy moving : Bill T. Jones, contemporary American performance, and the racial past / Ariel Nereson.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Theater: theory/text/performanceTheater--theory/text/performance.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-738*MGYB (Jones, Bill T.) 22-955