Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

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He not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century.DeFrantz examines the most celebrated Ailey dances, including Revelations, drawing on video recordings of Ailey's dances, published interviews, oral histories, and his own interviews with former Ailey company dancers. Through vivid descriptions and beautiful illustrations, DeFrantz reveals the relationship between Ailey's works and African American culture as a whole. He illuminates the dual achievement of Ailey as an artist and as an arts activist committed to developing an African American presence in dance. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship

"In Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture, Thomas F. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape."--Village Voice. DeFrantz sets out to provide an appraisal of one of the most important figures in the short history of American modern dance, as well as a 'stabilizing narrative' of his work. The result is an impeccable piece of dance scholarship--one that achieves its objectives and affirms Ailey's contribution to the African-American cultural canonDance students, scholars, and Ailey enthusiasts will all value this groundbreaking study."--Times Literary Supplement"Dancing Revelations is an enjoyable read, not only for those concerned with Ailey's dances as they relate to larger strugg

He is currently Associate Professor of Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His writings have appeared in the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, and the Village Voice. Also a performer and choreographer, DeFrantz has taught at NYU and Stanford University. . Thomas DeFrantz earned degrees from Yale, the City University of New York, and