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JACOB's PILLOW THEMES | ESSAYS​- INDEX to CONTENT Dance of the African Diaspora​ Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive - Themes | Essays - Index to Dance of the African Diaspora JACOB’S PILLOW THEMES | ESSAYS - INDEX TO CONTENT ​ Dance of the African Diaspora - Curated by John Perpener ​ ​ BLACK DANCERS IN THE BERKSHIRES Videos: ​ - Nuria Olive-Belles’ documentary about Joanna Haigood's Invisible Wings 1998 (4 ​ ​ ​ ​ excerpts) - Zaccho Dance Theatre in Joanna Haigood's Invisible Wings 1998 (2 excerpts) ​ ​ ​ ​ Images: ​ - Joanna Haigood's Invisible Wings, 2007 (5 photos) ​ ​ - Asadata Dafora - Jawole Willa Jo Zollar - Urban Bush Women in Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s Shelter ​ - Charles Moore in Asadata Dafora’s Awassa Astrige ​ TRACING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM Videos: ​ - Katherine Dunham teaching a Master Class to students of The School at Jacob's Pillow assisted by Walter Nicks and Theodore Jamison, 2002 (2 excerpts) - Ronald K. Brown’s In Gratitude, a tribute to Katherine Dunham, 2002 (excerpt) ​ ​ Images: ​ - Pearl Primus in African Ceremonial, ca. 1945 ​ ​ - Helen Tamiris at Jacob's Pillow, 1942 - Donald McKayle - Katherine Dunham - Katherine Dunham with students of The School at Jacob's Pillow, 2002 - Members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 1961 - Alvin Ailey with Lester Horton Dance Theater in Horton’s Bal Caribe, 1954 ​ ​ - Carmen de Lavallade and Alvin Ailey in Ailey’s Blues Suite ​ - Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Ailey’s Blues Suite (2 photos) ​ ​ - Alvin Ailey and Myrna White in Ailey’s Revelations, 1961 ​ ​ - Alvin Ailey, Ella Thompson, and Myrna White in Ailey’s Revelations ​ - Alvin Ailey in Revelations ​ TALLEY BEATTY Videos: ​ - Philadanco in Beatty’s Southern Landscape, 1992 (excerpt) ​ ​ - Talley Beatty in Mourner’s Bench, 1948 ​ ​ - Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in Mourner’s Bench, 1990 (excerpt) ​ ​ - Ballet Hispánico in Beatty’s Caravanserai, 1984 (excerpt) ​ ​ 1 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive - Themes | Essays - Index to Dance of the African Diaspora - Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in Beatty’s “Congo Tango Palace” from Come ​ and Get the Beauty of it Hot, 1993 (excerpt) ​ Printed Programs: ​ - July 11-12, 1952 including Beatty’s Island Holiday, Cousin, Region in the Sun, and Ritual ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ - August 2-6, 1960 including Beatty’s The Road of the Phoebe Snow ​ Letters: ​ - Talley Beatty to Ted Shawn, July 13, 1952 - Ted Shawn to Talley Beatty, July 21, 1952 - Talley Beatty to Ted Shawn, undated (circa 1950s) Images: ​ - Talley Beatty in Mourner’s Bench (3 photos) ​ ​ - Talley Beatty & Dancers in Rural Dances of Cuba, 1948 ​ ​ - Talley Beatty Company in The Road of the Phoebe Snow (2 photos) ​ ​ - Dudley Williams of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in The Road of the Phoebe ​ Snow - Boston Ballet in The Road of the Phoebe Snow ​ ASADATA DAFORA Videos: ​ - Randolph Sawyer and Asadata Dafora, 1942 - Ronald K. Brown in Dafora's Awassa Astrige, 1997 (excerpt) ​ ​ Printed Programs: ​ - July 27-31, 1976 including Charles Moore in Dafora’s Awassa Astrige ​ Images: ​ - Asadata Dafora - Dafora’s Kykunkor ​ - Charles Moore and Dances and Drums of Africa in Dafora’s Bundo, 1978 (4 photos) ​ ​ - Charles Moore and Ella Thompson Moore - Charles Moore and Dances and Drums of Africa in Dafora’s Spear Dance, 1978 (4 ​ ​ photos) JEAN LÉON DESTINÉ Videos: ​ - Jean Léon Destiné interviewed by Norton Owen, 2004 (3 excerpts) - Students of The School at Jacob's Pillow's Cultural Traditions Program performing Haitian dances, 2004 (excerpt) - Jean Léon Destiné, and Jeanne Ramon in Destiné’s Martinique, 1950 ​ ​ - Haitian Dance class taught by Jean Léon Destiné and Nadia Dieudonné with Damas "Fanfan" Louis, James "Tiga" Jean-Baptiste, Mbaye Niasse, Felix "Pupy" Insua, and Tito Sandoval, 2004 (excerpt) Printed Programs: ​ - Jean Léon Destiné and His Haitian Dance Company souvenir program (cover image) Images: ​ 2 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive - Themes | Essays - Index to Dance of the African Diaspora - Jean Léon Destiné (4 photos) - Jean Léon Destiné Company (8 photos) - Jean Léon Destiné in photo shoot with John Lindquist and Jack Mitchell, 1949 - Jean Léon Destiné and Jeanne Ramon in Destiné’s Haitian Voodoo Dance, 1949 ​ ​ - Ted Shawn, Jeanne Ramon and Jean Léon Destiné on the beach at Carrefour Raymond, Haiti, 1949 - Alphonse Cimber JANET COLLINS Videos: ​ - Yael Tamar Lewin, author of Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins in a PillowTalk ​ ​ with Maura Keefe, 2012 (4 excerpts) Texts: ​ - Janet Collins in The Blackamoor on the cover of Dance Magazine, February 1949 ​ ​ ​ ​ Images: ​ - Carmelita Maracci (2 photos) - Janet Collins at Jacob's Pillow, 1949 - Janet Collins in Spirituals at Jacob's Pillow, 1949 ​ ​ - Janet Collins with Loren Hightower in Samson et Dalila at the Metropolitan Opera, 1953 ​ ​ DONALD McKAYLE Videos: ​ - Donald McKayle interview, 2000 (3 excerpts) - Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company in Nocturne, 1996 (excerpt) ​ ​ - Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder, 1990 (excerpt) ​ ​ Printed Programs: ​ - July 17-18, 1953 including Games and Nocturne ​ ​ ​ - July 9-13 1963 including Blood of the Lamb and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder ​ ​ ​ Images: ​ - McKayle's Nocturne, 1953 ​ ​ - McKayle's Games (2 photos) ​ ​ - McKayle's Games in performance at Jacob's Pillow, 1953 ​ ​ - Donald McKayle (2 photos) - Donald McKayle & Company in Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (2 photos) ​ ​ - Donald McKayle & Company in Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder, 1961 ​ ​ - Donald McKayle & Company in Blood of the Lamb, 1963 (2 photos) ​ ​ - Donald McKayle and Carmen de Lavallade - Carmen de Lavallade and Donald McKayle in Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (2 photos) ​ ​ PEARL PRIMUS Videos: ​ - Pearl Primus interviewed by Spider Kedelsky, 1987 (2 excerpts) - Nimbus Dance Works in Pearl Primus's Strange Fruit, 2015 (2 excerpts) ​ ​ 3 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive - Themes | Essays - Index to Dance of the African Diaspora Images: ​ - Pearl Primus in Folk Dance, 1945 ​ ​ - Pearl Primus in African Ceremonial, ca. 1945 ​ ​ - Pearl Primus at Jacob's Pillow, 1950 JAWOLE WILLA JO ZOLLAR Videos: ​ - Urban Bush Women in The Fool’s Journey, 1988 (3 excerpts) ​ ​ - Urban Bush Women in Bitter Tongue, 1988 (2 excerpts) ​ ​ - Urban Bush Women in I Don't Know But I've Been Told If You Keep on Dancin' You'll ​ Never Grow Old, 1989 (excerpt) ​ - Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in Working for Free, 1989 (excerpt) ​ ​ - Urban Bush Women in Shelter, 1989 (excerpt) ​ ​ - Urban Bush Women in Praise House, 1990 (3 excerpts) ​ ​ Printed Programs: ​ - Urban Bush Women, August 18-20, 1988: Shelter, Lifedance… The Fool’s Journey, and ​ ​ ​ ​ Bitter Tongue - Urban Bush Women, July 27-28, 1989: I Don't Know But I've Been Told If You Keep on ​ Dancin' You'll Never Grow Old, Working for Free, Bitter Tongue, Lipstick, Madness, and ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Shelter - Urban Bush Women, July 24-28, 1990: Praise House ​ Images: ​ - Urban Bush Women in Hair Stories ​ - Christine King of Urban Bush Women in Bones and Ash ​ - Urban Bush Women in Shelter ​ - Urban Bush Women on the Pillow Rock, 2002 - Urban Bush Women in Heat ​ 4 .
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