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Chuck Davis, guru of Dance Africa, is the final profile in our Dance Magazine Awardee series, following Anna Halprin, Chita Rivera, and Jose Manuel Carreno. The annual awards ceremony will be held April 26 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.
At any performance of the African American Dance Ensemble, artistic director, Chuck Davis, a supertall, joyous presence in vivid robes, entices you into the experience of the bantaba. You honor the elders and the rituals of nature and spirit--and then the drumming and dancing begins. Children dance in the aisles, and critics lose themselves in the rhythm of the moment.
What you are doing is walking a bridge--a bridge constructed through the years by Davis to connect the roots and branches of African and African American dance. He shows the whole spectrum, from traditionalists to the avant-garde. It wasn't always so; what now seems sell-apparent exists because Davis started building the bridge twenty-five years ago.
The idea to start DanceAfrica was triggered by an old Tarzan movie Davis happened to see on television in 1977. "None of the 'natives' in the cast were...
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