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Edité par Oxford University Press, New York, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0195131665ISBN 13 : 9780195131666
Vendeur : Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xvi, 320 pages. Foreword by Gregory Hines. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Constance Valis Hill, professor emerita of dance, has a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University; M.A. in Dance Research and Reconstruction from City College of the University of New York; Bronze Certificate from the International Society of Ballroom Dance; and a Character Mask certificate from Pierre LeFevre at the Juilliard School. Professor Hill has taught at the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance, Conservatoire d'arts Dramatique in Paris, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. As a choreographer, director, and mask specialist, she has worked with the French playwright Eugene Ionesco; Czech scenographer Josef Svoboda; Romanian director Liviu Ciulei, and Toni Morrison on her play Dreaming Emmett, directed by Gilbert Moses. Her writings have appeared in such publications as Dance Magazine, Village Voice, Dance Research Journal, Studies in Dance History; Discourses in Dance, and in such edited anthologies as Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance; Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African-American Dance; Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader; Taken By Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader, and Kaiso! Writings By and About Katherine Dunham. Her book, Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers received the Deems Taylor ASCAP Award. They were two of the most explosive dancers of the twentieth century, dazzling audiences with daredevil splits, slides, and hair-raising flips. But they were also highly sophisticated dancers, refining a centuries-old tradition of percussive dance into the rhythmic brilliance of jazz tap at its zenith. They were Fayard and Harold Nicholas, two American masters masterfully portrayed in this new dual biography by Constance Valis Hill. In Brotherhood in Rhythm, Hill interweaves an intimate portrait of these great performers with a richly detailed history of jazz music and jazz dance, both bringing their act to life and explaining their significance through a colorful analysis of their eloquent footwork, their full-bodied expressiveness, and their changing style. Hill vividly captures their soaring careers, from Cotton Club appearances with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Jimmie Lunceford, to film-stealing big-screen performances with Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller. Drawing on a deep well of research and endless hours of interviews with the Nicholas brothers themselves, she also documents their struggles against the nets of racism and segregation that constantly enmeshed their careers and denied them the recognition they deserved. And to provide essential background to their career and the development of their art, she also traces the three-hundred-year evolution of jazz tap, showing how it emerged in the Southern colonies in the 1700s, as the Irish jig and West African gioube mutated into the American jig and juba. More than a biography of two talented but underappreciated performers, Brotherhood in Rhythm offers a profound new understanding of this distinctively American art and its intricate links to the history of jazz.
Edité par Paris, : Chez L. Tenre, Libraire, 1823
Vendeur : MW Books, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
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First Edition. Finely rebound copy in gilt-blocked buckram. Scattered foxing throughout. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 379 pages; Physical desc. : [4], 379, [1]p. ; 20.2cm. Subject: Legris de Latude, Claire Josephe Hyppolyte (1723-1803) -- Criticism and interpretation. Dumesnil, Marie Francoise (1713-1803) -- Biography. Theatre -- France -- History. Series: Collection des memoires sur l'art dramatique. 1 Kg.
Edité par Paris, : Chez L. Tenre, Libraire, 1823
Vendeur : MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlande
Edition originale
First Edition. Finely rebound copy in gilt-blocked buckram. Scattered foxing throughout. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 379 pages; Physical desc. : [4], 379, [1]p. ; 20.2cm. Subject: Legris de Latude, Claire Josephe Hyppolyte (1723-1803) -- Criticism and interpretation. Dumesnil, Marie Francoise (1713-1803) -- Biography. Theatre -- France -- History. Series: Collection des memoires sur l'art dramatique. 1 Kg.