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Chuck Davis (dancer) (1,008 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

founder of DanceAfrica, the Chuck Davis Dance Company, and the African American Dance Ensemble. Charles Rudolph Davis was born on January 1, 1937, in

Malaika (singer) (183 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Washington) also known under name Malaika Sallard Johnson, is a female African American dance singer from Seattle, Washington. During her short lived music career

Meechie (112 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meechie is a female African American dance music singer from Chicago. She placed two songs on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1990s

Xaviera Gold (206 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Xaviera Gold is a female African American dance music singer who is a former DJ and mixer on Chicago's WBMX-FM. In 1987, she had a hit with Ralphi Rosario

Charleston (dance) (2,776 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

came from the "star" or challenge dances that were all part of the African-American dance called Juba, the particular sequence of steps which appeared in

String band (732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

instrumentation, became known simply as a "string band." In the 1870s African-American dance houses of Cincinnati had musicians who played violin, banjo, and

Hot Shots (dance companies) (2,996 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Hot Shots. The Hot Shots specialize in faithful reproductions of African-American dance scenes in American films from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Dances that

Ceremony of Us (335 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

specific for an all-white (San Francisco Dancer's Workshop) and an all-African American dance company (Studio Watts Dancer's Workshop). Then in January 1969 the

Boogie (genre) (1,624 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

subcultures. The term "boogie" was used in London to describe a form of African-American dance/funk music from the 1980s. The name boogie tended to be used as

Honky-tonk (2,413 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that is slightly stepped up. It is rhythmically suited for many African-American dance." As Chris Smith and Charles McCarron wrote in their 1916 hit song

Nadine George-Graves (826 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1900-1940, 2003, ISBN 0312225628 Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out, 2012, ISBN 978-0-299-23554-3;

Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble (421 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

thousands of people, alone and in collaboration with such groups as The African American Dance Ensemble, Chimaera Physical Theatre, and more recently, The Open

Abdel R. Salaam (1,756 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Davis (dancer). DanceAfrica festival has become one of the largest African American dance, music, and art festival in the United States of America. Thousands

Industrial music (4,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

move." 23 Skidoo, like Clock DVA, merged industrial music with African-American dance music, but also performed a response to world music. Performing

Ragtime (4,941 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

until about 1904. The music is intended to be representative of an African American dance contest in which the prize is a cake. Many early rags are cakewalks

King Oliver (1,980 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in his approach were faster tempos, unlike the slow drags in the African-American dance halls of New Orleans. In Chicago, he found work with colleagues

Flash dance (159 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

captured on film. Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance, p. 94 Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance, by Marshall

Knocking and kicking (826 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Knocking and kicking (or yuna onse) is a little-known traditional African-American dance-like martial art, arguably practiced clandestinely in parts of the

Ligon Middle School (North Carolina) (1,190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Reconstruction era Chuck Davis 1954 Dancer, founder of DanceAfrica and the African American Dance Ensemble Ralph Campbell, Jr. 1964 15th Auditor of North Carolina

Joan Miller (choreographer) (1,176 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Theatre, Chuck Davis (who founded his own company in 1968, and the African American Dance Ensemble in 1984), William R. Munroe, and Wanda Ward. After a one-year

Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (1,399 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Awards", Playbill, May 5, 2016 Sources Glass, Barbara S. (2012). African American Dance, an Illustrated History. Jefferson, North Carolina: MacFarland &

Generation X (16,757 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

This cartoon depicts a 1980s-era dancer doing breakdancing, an African-American dance form that was a key part of hip hop culture.

Buster Brown (tap dancer) (1,199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

dancer active from the 1930's to 2000. Brown started his career in African-American dance circuits while still in high school and went on to perform internationally

Leon Mobley (532 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

group he formed in 1986 in California to present authentic West African-American dance and music to North American audiences. Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra

Longview race riot (3,034 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

neighboring house. From there, the mob moved south to the Quick Hall, an African-American dance hall owned by Charlie Medlock; they set it on fire, as there were

Leon Claxton (536 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malone, Jacqui (1996). Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252065088. Retrieved 2019-07-08

Eleo Pomare (1,495 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

African Festival of Arts and Culture. William Moore (1933–1992), African American dance critic, dancer, researcher, and founder of Dance Herald magazine

Shuffle Along (3,443 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Naperville: Sourcebooks. ISBN 9781492688815 Glass, Barbara S. (2012). African American Dance, an Illustrated History, MacFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson,

Kappa Kappa Psi (6,669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and Sororities". Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. Folklore and Society. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp

Narcissister (1,289 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of gender, race, and radical self-acceptance. Her background in African American dance, training in Black feminist arts, and her exhibitions consisting

Joe V. Nash (631 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas F. (April 1, 2002). Dancing Many Drums: Excavations In African American Dance. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299173135. Dunning, Jennifer

Charles Holston Williams (1,310 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

students with diverse cultural opportunities in the predominantly African American Dance Company." Williams was famous for his use of African diasporas in

Born to Dance (2015 film) (824 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Tu Kherington Payne as Sasha John Tui as Zack Kelvin Taylor as African American Dance Crew Leader Parris Goebel Stan Walker as Benjy Alexandra Carson

List of African-American LGBT people (1,711 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Model'". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2019-02-20. "Alvin Ailey Gay African American Dance Pioneer". Lavender Magazine. 2007-12-21. Retrieved 2019-02-20. Ciara

Darktown Follies (393 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malone, Jacqui (1996). Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. University of Illinois Press. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-0-252-06508-8

Bethena (2,217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Cakewalk minus the final note. The Cakewalk was a popular African-American dance which originated in plantation slave communities in nineteenth century

Constance Cummings-John (910 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1934", in Thomas F. De Frantz, Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), p. 233. "Sierra Leone Web

Treemonisha (3,566 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

performance was directed by Katherine Dunham, former head of a noted African-American dance company in her own name, and conducted by Robert Shaw. (He was one

Hilda Perleno (878 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malone, Jacqui (1996). Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. University of Illinois Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-2520-6508-8. Fritts

Asadata Dafora (1,613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1934" in Thomas F. DeFrantz's Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance. (England: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002),233. Heard,

VèVè Clark (913 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

literatures, Afro-Caribbean folklore, African Diaspora theater, African American dance history, and critical pedagogy." To combat the high attrition rate

Music of the United States (15,057 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

previously an integral part of jazz. Swing became a major part of African American dance, and came to be accompanied by a popular dance called the swing

Federal Theatre Project (4,486 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The New York Negro Theatre Unit also oversaw projects from the African American Dance Unit featuring Nigerian artists displaced by the Ethiopian Crisis

Harriet Browne (dancer) (955 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Browne also became the youngest member of The Silver Belles, an African American dance troupe based in Harlem, New York and made up of former chorus line

Louis Delsarte (1,517 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

national traveling exhibition entitled "When the Spirit Moves: African-American Dance in History and Art". The traveling exhibition was sponsored by the

Paul Colin (artist) (2,065 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

C.; Gates, Henry Louis (1998). "Josephine Baker and Paul Colin: African American Dance Seen through Parisian Eyes". The University of Chicago Press. 24

Anise Boyer (1,229 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malone, Jacqui (1996). Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. University of Illinois Press. pp. 93–94. ISBN 978-0-252-06508-8

The Nest Club (2,869 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in her 1996 book, Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance, explained that, at the Nest Club, floor shows were less elaborate

Deaths in May 2017 (11,169 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Founder of Islamic Movement in Israel dies Peaceful founder of Durham African American dance group dies Décès de l’écrivain et traducteur Alain Defossé (in French)

Ann Williams (choreographer) (520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Theatre, while under Williams' guidance, became the fourth largest African American dance troupe in the United States. Williams was inducted into the Texas

Edna Guy (1,331 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

African themes. In 1937 Guy cemented her role as an organizer in the African-American dance community when she and Allison Burroughs staged Negro Dance Evening

October 1923 (7,777 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malone, Jacqui (1996). Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. University of Illinois. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-252-06508-8. "Republic

Smalls Paradise (4,763 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malone, Jacqui (1996). Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-2520-6508-8. Archived

Fifth of July (New York) (1,335 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

that the 1851 novel Moby-Dick's relatively realistic depiction of African American dance in the character of Pip was inspired by Fifth of July and related

De la Torre Bueno Prize (1,561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to Jacqui Malone, Steppin’ on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance 1996 prize to Barbara Browning, Samba: Resistance in Motion 1996

Kelvin Taylor (actor) (600 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Deep Sayed 2014 Born with Happiness Danny 2015 Born to Dance African American Dance Crew Leader 2016 Electro City 3 Dynamite Short Film 2016 Value Mike

Timeline of music in the United States (1880–1919) (14,223 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

work with James Reese Europe, whose band becomes the first all-African American dance band to receive a commercial recording contract, recording "Down

January 1937 (9,261 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

who founded DanceAfrica, the Chuck Davis Dance Company, and the African American Dance Ensemble; in Raleigh, North Carolina (d. 2017) Matt Robinson, African-American

Karla F.C. Holloway (2,787 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(2010). George-Graves, Nadine. Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out, p. 72 (2010)

Association of Black Anthropologists (4,331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1991 Annual Meeting by the AAA included ABA sponsored topics on African American Dance, Food in Africa and the African Diaspora. Sessions included: "Diaspora

Silas Green from New Orleans (3,178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malone, Jacqui (1996). Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. University of Illinois Press. p. 63. ISBN 0-2520-2211-4. LCCN 95-4413

Bronislava Nijinska (28,962 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

her brother Vaslav had developed a friendship with two traveling African-American dance performers, house guests of their parents. iii. On the Road. A Japanese

Shawn Short (1,372 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

dance golden age (1932 – 2000), Short represents one of the last African-American dance artists to study with Mike Malone (the founding director of Howard

Timeline of music in the United States (1820–1849) (5,612 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

are owned by most families that are capable of affording one. An African American dance technique using the heel of the foot without raising the rest of

History of Lindy Hop (5,610 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

United States, particularly in New York City. The popularity of African American dance and music fed what became a fascination with the somewhat illicit

Lucy Chase and Sarah Chase (1,324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

letters have been used by researchers studying the black church and African-American dance history. The letters and journals of the Chases sisters also provide

Judith Chazin-Bennahum (3,507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

studies in contemporary dance, feminism, postmodern theory, and African-American dance in performance. In 1987–1988, Chazin-Bennahum served as head of

LaTasha Barnes (2,094 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

show "Swing Out," currently touring the U.S. This show, rooted in African American dance from the late 1800s and early 1900s, is a mix of tap and vernacular

List of Sierra Leone Creole people (8,144 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1934" in Thomas F. DeFrantz's Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance. (England: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002),233. Nigel Browne-Davies

Africa (21,793 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malone, Jacqui (1996). Steppin' on the Blues: the Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. University of Illinois Press. OCLC 891842452. Robinson, Ronald;