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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out

Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out

George-Graves, Nadine

Paperback

Series: Studies in Dance History

DanceBlack American StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0299235548
ISBN13: 9780299235543
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Jul 8 2010
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.84 Depth: 9.44
Language: English
Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Their unique aesthetic borrows from classical and contemporary dance techniques and theater characterization exercises, incorporates breath and vocalization, and employs space and movement to instill their performances with emotion and purpose. Urban Bush Women concerts are also deeply rooted in community activism, using socially conscious performances in places around the country-from the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and the Joyce, to community centers and school auditoriums-to inspire audience members to engage in neighborhood change and challenge stereotypes of gender, race, and class.

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