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Douglas Dunn in Italy: Dance, Dancer, and Spectator

Douglas Dunn in Italy: Dance, Dancer, and Spectator

Douglas Dunn on the cover of the first edition of Sally Banes’s Terpsichore in Sneakers (1980). Photographer: Robert Alexander. To better understand the origins of contemporary Italian dance, Italian critics, dancers, and choreographers are now examining the American presence in the Italian dance world of the 1970s.[1] In 1969 Fabio Sargentini inaugurated The Danza Volo . . .

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Pearl Primus, “Omowale,” Child Returned Home

Pearl Primus, “Omowale,” Child Returned Home

(Documentary Poster, Courtesy of the Archive of the American Dance Festival) Pearl Primus, Omowale, Child Returned Home is a new documentary by Stan Sherer, in collaboration with Peggy and Murray Schwartz, authors of the Primus biography, The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus (Yale, 2011). Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto . . .

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