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American Modern Dance: It's Black and White

By KMarsh

  • Helen Tamiris: "Negro Spirituals" (eight dances choreographed from 1928-1941)

  • Period: to

    American Concert Dance

  • Martha Graham: Heretic

  • Martha Graham: "Lamentation"

  • Edna Guy & Hemsley Winfield: "First Negro Dance Recital in America"

  • Kurt Jooss: "The Green Table"

  • Edna Guy produces solo concert

  • Hemsley Winfield: "Let Freedom Reign" (included European dancers such as, Ruth St. Denis & Fred Astair)

  • Adatata Dafura: "What Should the Negro Dancers Dance About?"

  • Doris Humphrey: "Air for a G String"

  • Adatata Dafura: "Kykunkkor"

  • Martha Graham: "Frontier"

  • Martha Graham: "Chronicle"

  • Honya Holms: "Trend"

  • Helen Tamiris: "How Long Brethren?"

  • 92 Street YMHA Negro Dance Evening

  • Martha Graham: "American Document"

  • Humphrey-Weidman: "Lynchown" & "Shakers"

  • Kathrine Dunham: "Barrelhouse Blues"

  • Begin WWII

  • Martha Graham: "Letter to the World"

  • Martha Graham: "Deaths and Entrances"

  • Pearl Primus performes solos: "Strange Fruit," "Rock Daniel," & "Hard Time Blues" at YMHA

  • Martha Graham: "Appalachian Spring"

  • Charles Wiedman: "Daddy was a Fireman"

  • Martha Graham: "The Scarlet Letter"

  • Katherine Dunham & Company open for musical play: "Caribian Song" (coincides with the openning of Dunham School in NYC)

  • End WWII

  • Martha Graham: "Cave of the Heart"

  • Katherine Dunham performs "Bal Negre" at The Belasco Theater

  • Martha Graham: "Night Journey"

  • Hanya Holms: "Kiss Me Kate" (on Broadway)

  • Jose Limon: "Moore's Pavane"

  • Martha Graham: "Diversion of Angles"

  • Jose Limon: "The Traitor"

  • Hanya Holms: "My Fair Lady" (on Braodway)

  • Jose Limon: "Emperor Jones"

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957 - Congress passes the first legislation protecting black rights since reconstruction

  • Helen Tamiris solo work: "Go Down Moses" (part of her "Negro Spirituals"

  • Hanya Holms: "Camelot" (on Broadway)

  • Tamiris-Nagrin Dance Company is founded

  • Chuck Davis meets Watutsi dancers at World Fair in New York

  • Merce Cunningham: "Winter Branch"

  • Rod Rogers: "Now!Nigga"

  • Rod Rogers: "Box"

  • Rod Rodgers: "Victims"