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Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston
Anthea Kraut
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Description for Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ASDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
While Zora Neale Hurston and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have become widely celebrated, she was also a prolific stage director and choreographer. In the 1930s Hurston produced theatrical concerts that depicted a day in the life of a railroad work camp in Florida and featured a rousing Bahamian Fire Dance as the dramatic finale. In Choreographing the Folk, Anthea Kraut traces the significance and influence of Hurston’s little-known choreographic work.
Hurston’s concerts were concrete illustrations of the “real Negro art theatre” she was eager to establish, and they compellingly demonstrate how she used the arena ... Read more
While Zora Neale Hurston and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have become widely celebrated, she was also a prolific stage director and choreographer. In the 1930s Hurston produced theatrical concerts that depicted a day in the life of a railroad work camp in Florida and featured a rousing Bahamian Fire Dance as the dramatic finale. In Choreographing the Folk, Anthea Kraut traces the significance and influence of Hurston’s little-known choreographic work.
Hurston’s concerts were concrete illustrations of the “real Negro art theatre” she was eager to establish, and they compellingly demonstrate how she used the arena ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816647125
SKU
V9780816647125
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