Sentences with phrase «american dance history»

He studied design at New York's Cooper Union School of Fine Arts, but became part of American dance history when he attended North Carolina's Black Mountain College.

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The list reviewed by the Journal also includes the Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History in New York; internet celebrities like Logan Paul, Andrew Bachelor and Lele Pons; dance music DJs Armin Van Buuren and Hardwell; and sports teams such as FC Barcelona.
Those unaware of the history of minstrelsy may miss the racially charged historical reference stitched into those bars: It's a callback to a racist and dehumanizing form of American entertainment from the 19th century that depicted black people as thick - headed buffoons who tap - danced for the enjoyment of white audiences.
February 21: Explore invention, dance, poetry, art - making, and short films at the Mary Baker Eddy Library's Untold American Stories / Black History Month (Boston)
The International History Project Native American dating and the beautiful Crane Dance explained.
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If you didn't see the Feb. 3 episode of the ABC drama «American Crime,» you missed a notable development in the history of dance on television.
Thus was born the story of Kennedy's presidency as a golden period, described as «a magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers, and poets met at the White House, and the barbarians beyond the walls held back.»
Students performed dances, made music, and displayed works of art that were aligned with their grade - level curriculum, exploring subjects from animal behavior and math facts to American history and electromagnetism.
African American History Through the Arts: In this collection from ArtsEdge, students can explore black history through the lens of a variety of artistic disciplines, including music, poetry, andHistory Through the Arts: In this collection from ArtsEdge, students can explore black history through the lens of a variety of artistic disciplines, including music, poetry, andhistory through the lens of a variety of artistic disciplines, including music, poetry, and dance.
A fun and accessible introduction to Latin American history and its lasting heritage of music and dance.
TAMPA BAY BLACK HERITAGE FESTIVAL — Celebrate African - American history and culture with 10 days of music, dancing, cultural events, business seminars, food, health tutorials, and uplifting speakers.
However, rumour has it that President Obama plans to ease the longstanding U.S. restrictions on travel, so Cuba could change in the years to come to cater for the mass American tourist market right next door... So, have a cigar, and enjoy an authentic Cuba holiday experience with Thomson - while you still can!Cuba is famed for its exciting history and extraordinary music and dance traditions, as well as its vibrant capital city, Havana.
The Hirshhorn Museum announced Theaster Gates is curating a series of four performances at the Washington, D.C., museum that «will introduce unexpected and unexplored connections between sacred music, African and African American culture and history, theater, world dance and chant.»
Jody Weber received a BFA from SUNY Purchase in 1988, an M.A. from American University in 1992, and a Ph.D. in dance history from Boston University in 2005.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18 Party: The Museum Dance at the American Museum of Natural History It's Saturday night — don't you feel like putting on a fancy gown and paying $ 7,500 for a table at a gala?
Look, «tis the season, and the Museum Dance at the American Museum of Natural History is a fairly grand one.
In Massage the History, the artist combines footage of young men in Alabama performing an erotically charged, provocative dance with living - room furniture in middle - class homes, with found footage of violent or surreal events filmed in anonymous American suburbs.
Described by film director Harmony Korine as «the single greatest dance film ever made,» Jamie's Massage the History (2007 - 09) explores a marginal cultural phenomenon: a style of private dance performance developed by young African - American men in suburban living rooms in Alabama.
And only later did I learn enough art history to be able to place Johns's startlingly deadpan use of the American flag in the context of an issue that lies at the heart of what we call modernism — the relationship of art to reality, another kind of dance.
Issue Contents: John Singer Sargent's «Dorothy»; DMFA Recent Acquisitions; Dallas Arts District; Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern; Symposium on American Art Sponsored by the Education Department; Counterparts: Form and Emotion; Mexican Dance Masks; A Print History, The Bromberg Gifts; Concentrations VII: Deborah Butterfield; El Greco of Toledo Wins Universal Praise; DMFA League; Calendar of Events; DMFA Recent Loan; DMFA Education Department; DMFA Profile; DMA Featured in Whitney Exhibit; Patricia Johanson: A Project for the Fair Park Lagoon
Exhibition: Nick Mauss at Whitney Museum Featuring painting, photography, sculpture, archival material, and live performance, «Nick Mauss: Transmissions» parses the history of American modernist ballet and explores the commonalities between dance and other art forms.
The featured contemporary artists are Kara Walker, who makes panoramic silhouettes of plantation life and African American history; Canadian artist Kristi Malakoff, who cuts paper to make life - size sculptures depicting a children's Maypole dance; MacArthur - prize - winner Camille Utterback, who will present an interactive digital work that reacts to visitors» shadows and movements; and Kumi Yamashita, who «sculpts» light and shadow with objects to create mixed - media profiles of people who are not there.
Visitors can also examine the American history of race, gender, ethnicity, and class through the lenses of dance and the visual arts.
Thomas F. DeFrantz, professor and chair of Duke's African and African American Studies Department, and SLIPPAGE presented an exhilarating performance of a dance duet in response to Kara Walker's Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) prints.
Gibson is inspired by the histories of Ghost Dance shirts, worn across Native American cultures in ceremonies of peaceful resistance against white assimilation — until Lakota Sioux wearing them were massacred at Wounded Knee.
The collaborative performances engage «unexpected and unexplored connections between sacred music, African and African American culture and history, theater, world dance and chant.»
«Prayer for the Black Madonna» is the third installment of the Hirshhorn's acclaimed «Processions» series organized by Theaster Gates, featuring collaborative performances that introduce unexpected and unexplored connections between sacred music, African and African American culture and history, theater, world dance, and chant.
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