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| Publications [#291718] of Thomas F. DeFrantz
Essays, Articles, Chapters in Books
- DeFrantz, T, Theorizing Connectivity: African American Women in Concert Dance,
Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 4 no. 6
(September, 2011),
pp. 56-74 [htm] .
(last updated on 2022/08/14)
Abstract:
This essay explores genealogies of Black women’s presence in American modern dance to theorize connectivity as a methodology to appreciate their creative work. The legacies of more familiar dance artists, including Pearl Primus and Katherine Dunham, are discussed in relation to achievements and interventions by less-discussed, but no less important, African American women including Joan Myers Brown, Judy Dearing, Thelma Hill, Carole Johnson, and Edisa Weeks. The essay offers evidence of a radical creative tradition within these genealogies; one that has been less widely appreciated by mainstream histories of dance, but surely influential in the creation of American concert dance.
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