Solano Trindade's Gift to Alvin Ailey: New Evidence from the Black Archives of Mid-America.
The article discusses the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre company, founded by American choreographer and activist Alvin Ailey, which toured Brazil in 1963, allowing Ailey to encounter Afro-Brazilian culture as manifested in dance, music and spirituality. Explored is activist and dramaturge Solano...
| Publicado en: | Black Scholar Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 6 - 21 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2019
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| Sumario: | The article discusses the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre company, founded by American choreographer and activist Alvin Ailey, which toured Brazil in 1963, allowing Ailey to encounter Afro-Brazilian culture as manifested in dance, music and spirituality. Explored is activist and dramaturge Solano Trindade's gift to Ailey, a dossier of handwritten, typewritten and printed texts. Other topics discussed include how their is a lack of research on Ailey's Brazil tour of 1963 and details on Ailey's Afro-Brazilian encounter. |
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