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"The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds watched, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Chronicling dance from the minstrel stage to the music vide…
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An American Style -- 1 The Cakewalk, America's First National Dance -- 2 Bill Robinson's Dream -- 3 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Pick Themselves Up -- 4 Agnes de Mille's Square Dance -- 5 Paul Taylor's Bugle Boy -- 6 Michae…
'American Dancing' is an exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art
"The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds watched, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Chronicling dance from the minstrel stage to the music vide…
The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bill Bojangles Robinson, Ginger …
"The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds watched, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Chronicling dance from the minstrel stage to the music vide…
An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences …