Constance Valis Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 5396303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance Valis Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance Valis |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL C V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Bharata Natyam to Bop
It's what we used to see in the dance halls in the twenties and thirties, that is what real jazz dance is. This was a group of kids who did all those dances that were in then: the Camel Walk, the Charleston, the Lindy Hop...all stemming from African dance and all filled with authentic feeling. And the root of all these elaborations was the Lindy. Whatever is danced in the name of jazz dancing must come from the Lindy, necessarily theatricalized a…
Katherine Dunham's Southland
The man who truly loves his country is the man who is able to see it in the bad as well as the good and seeing the bad declaim it, at the cost of liberty or life. (Katherine Dunham, Prologue to Southland ) In 1951, at the dawning of a decade that would be known by some for its suffocating conformity and political intolerance, Katherine Dunham created Southland , a dramatic ballet Americana about what was by then the century-long practice of lynch…
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Katherine Dunham's Southland
The man who truly loves his country is the man who is able to see it in the bad as well as the good and seeing the bad declaim it, at the cost of liberty or life. (Katherine Dunham, Prologue to Southland ) In 1951, at the dawning of a decade that would be known by some for its suffocating conformity and political intolerance, Katherine Dunham created Southland , a dramatic ballet Americana about what was by then the century-long practice of lynch…
From Bharata Natyam to Bop
It's what we used to see in the dance halls in the twenties and thirties, that is what real jazz dance is. This was a group of kids who did all those dances that were in then: the Camel Walk, the Charleston, the Lindy Hop...all stemming from African dance and all filled with authentic feeling. And the root of all these elaborations was the Lindy. Whatever is danced in the name of jazz dancing must come from the Lindy, necessarily theatricalized a…
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Ballet (1 work) · Ballroom (1 work) · Concert dance (1 work) · Conscience (1 work) · Dance improvisation (1 work) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (1 work) · Face (sociological concept) (1 work)