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Brenda Dixon Gottschild coming to UCI on March 1, 2012!

You are cordially invited to meet and greet this dynamic cultural historian, performer, and choreographer who uses dance as a way to measure the pulse of society and the barometer of culture.

Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Discussion: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Book Signing: 6:30—7:30 pm

In her forthcoming book, Brenda Dixon Gottschild uses the career of Joan Myers Brown (JMB), the legendary founder of the historic Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO), as a fulcrum to leverage an investigation of the interface between performance, cultural formation, and race politics as evidenced by the development of a dance community in Black Philadelphia and the rise and spread of its influence beyond community and regional borders to national and international distinction.

As shown in Gottschild’s scholarship, JMB’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.