1. Introduction: Caribbean Performance: Dancing Transformation in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's "Haitian Excursions" -- 2. Black Dance, Modern Dance, and the Caribbean: Locating the Work of Katherine Dunham and Maya Deren -- 3. Island Possessed: Dance Ethnography Performing the Caribbean -- 4. Maya Deren on Visualizing (Mediating) Vodou -- Afterword: Caribbean Dis-Location.
Summary:
"This study looks at the ways in which Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States starting in the 1940's. It highlights the way the Caribbean inspired dance creations of dancer, choreographer Katherine Dunham and filmmaker Maya Deren's own incorporation of Caribbean dance in experimental film, enacted strategies to enhance the politics of performances of identity that consider history, embodied experience, strategies for liberation, survival, and memory. It proposes an intercultural discussion that refers to alternative subjectivities for Black dancing bodies within the existing paradigms of the American public"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.