Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance

by Ntozake Shange

Book Overview

In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings

Many learned of Ntozake Shange's ability to blend movement with words when her acclaimed choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf made its way to Broadway in 1976, eventually winning an Obie Award the following year...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807091871
• ISBN13: 9780807091876
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"