Dancing Left

By rvaughan
  • Limon studies with Humphrey and Weidman

    Limon studies with Humphrey and Weidman

  • Gellet published articles about his new research in "New Masses", Nancy Cunard's "Negro Anthology" and "Music Vanguard"

    This was during the Great Depression

  • "Dance of Solidarity" premier

    addresses class and gender oppression of women workers
  • Bahama Dancers

    Bahama Dancers

    Founded by Zora Neale Hurston

  • Workers Dance League Founded

  • Workers Dance League perform "What Shall the Negro Dance About"

    At Harlem YWCA

  • Modern Negro Dance Group

    Performs in concert by Workers Dance League
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    Yates co-teaching with Fokine

    Workshops for Harlem Dancers interested in dance techniques other than Jazz.
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    Denning's leftist cultural front

  • Workers Dance League hosts benefit

    A concert for the Labor Defender

  • Men in the Dance weekend concert

    Hosted at Park Theatre and featured male dancers performing in diverse genres

  • Formation of Negro Units

    This is within the Federal Theatre Project

  • Issue of New Theatre announces transformation of Workers Dance League to reflect communist party's initiative to develop common ground b/n liberals and socialists

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    Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre

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    Audiences of Leftist and Modern dance overlap more than ever before

  • New York Times announcement

    Announcement that Weidman joined the Federal Dance Theatre

  • 2nd Men in the Dance weekend concert

  • Dance Congress

    Organized by the New Dance League

  • "Injunction Granted"

    Play by WPA Federal Theatre

  • Bennington Festival

    Held by New Dance League members. Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, etc. appeared having never appeared before at a Workers Dance League event

  • Gellet collaborated with Elie Siegmeister

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    "Negro Art" won Dance Magazine's award for best color choreography

  • "Tripled a Plow Under"

    Melodrama by Federal Theatre Project
  • Bassa Moona opens

    Bassa Moona opens

    At Lafayette Theatre

  • "Negro Dance Evening"

    Edna Guy and Allison Burroughs staged this piece at a show that highlighted different dance styles in African diasporas

  • 1st American Dance Association meeting

  • Choreographers associated to Negro Dance Evening reach out to Jewish audience with the Young Mans Hebrew Association

  • Federal Theatre Project voided transfer of "How Long Brethren?" to Lafayette Theatre

    This was as a result of congressional cuts
  • Helen Tamiris premiered "How Long Brethren?"

    Helen Tamiris premiered "How Long Brethren?"

    Opened at Nora Bayes Theatre on 44th street west of Broadway.

  • Petition addressing issues with Federal government

    Negro Arts Committee addressed the issues concerning the federal government and ending discrimination against Negro workers in all WPA arts projects in NYC

  • Negro Arts Committee requests separate organization

    They believed that under the current setup the acme of Negro Art could not be ascertained, but Hallie Flanagan denied the request

  • Pittsburg Courier printed a photo essay under the Headline

  • Federal Theatre Project announced that the Production would move to Lafayette Theatre

  • 2nd ADA meeting

  • "Pins and Needles"

    Katherine Dunham contributes to choreography of this piece

  • "One Third of a Nation"

    Federal Theatre Project: produced in 1938

  • Leftist dance moves from white to black bodies

  • "Strange Fruit"

    Performed by Pearl Primus

  • "Southern Landscapes"

    premiered by Talley Beatty

  • Dianne McIntyre recreated Tamiris' work at George Mason University