{"product_id":"joan-myers-brown-the-audacious-hope-of-the-black-ballerina-a-biohistory-of-american-performance-hardcover","title":"Joan Myers Brown \u0026 the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnanya Chatterjea\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eRobert Farris Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eBrenda Dixon Gottschild\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Brenda Dixon Gottschild: Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Waltzing in the Dark, and The Black Dancing Body, is Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at Temple University, USA, and a former senior consultant and writer for Dance Magazine. She lectures nationally and internationally, using her own dancing\/thinking body to illustrate her ideas and blur the division between practice and theory. She is the recipient of the 2013 Scholar Award from the International Association of Blacks in Dance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 341\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.2 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724481957951,"sku":"9780230114081","price":107.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/67a370edee9be7ba53843ce73453485e.webp?v=1765102819","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/joan-myers-brown-the-audacious-hope-of-the-black-ballerina-a-biohistory-of-american-performance-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}