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Black American Dance Narratives: A Survey of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division by Malaika Adero, Jerome Robbins Dance Division Fellow

All art is cultural expression, but none is more integrative than dance, which is made of our bodies"how we move, where we move, what we wear"to tell every story there is to tell of how we, humanity, live. This project is about black bodies that dance and, in doing so, tell a story that is about politics, sexuality, religion, economics, and mortality more than art. Dance is for the stage, but dance is also for life. …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:49PM on May 4, 2016

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