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Article: FROM AFRICA TO AVANT-GARDE.(influences on American dance)(Brief Article)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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THE MOVING IMAGE: FREE TO DANCE DANCE IN AMERICA JUNE 24, 2001 ON PBS (CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS)
Free to Dance, produced by Thirteen/WNET's Dance in America, is a three-hour, self-titled "evening-long performance documentary" tracing the African influence on modern dance. Extraordinary historical footage, signature performances, interviews with critics, historians, and artists, and a historical dramatization should keep viewers glued to the screen. Dance in America has produced many programs that featured prominent artists of the African American tradition--Katherine Dunham, Alvin Ailey, Garth Fagan, and Bill T. Jones, among others. Here, their contributions are ...