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Balanchine in black.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Balanchine in black.(Rants and Raves)(George Balanchine)

Article Excerpt
The George Balanchine centennial "chatter" is animated and enthusiastic. ("Chatter," as used in current newspeak on international security, means "intense activity.") Everybody's talking about Balanchine's influence on dance. How about looking at dance's influence on Balanchine? I'm thinking about an ingredient that is routinely overlooked or treated as ah afterthought, if mentioned at all. It's the Africanist presence in the maestro's works--in movements, ways of moving, and attitudes affecting how the movement is done.

Chapter 5 of my book, Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance (Greenwood, 1998), gives an in-depth discussion of this topic. I started out by...

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