Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

by Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Book Overview

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230114091
• ISBN13: 9780230114098
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"