FURTHER READING

 

Title: Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of The Black Ballerina: a Biohistory of American Performance

Palgrave Macmillan

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild

 

Title: Marion Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance: Training Ballerinas in Black Philadelphia

By Melanye White Dixon

Not available for purchase however you can request it be added to your local Library: 1945-1971, 2011      Mellen Press 716-754-2788

 

The Legacy of Black Philadelphia’s Dance Institutions and the Educators Who Built the Tradition

M White-Dixon – Dance Research Journal, 1991 – cambridge.org

 

Abstract Cultural arts institutions have played a significant role in the life of Black

Philadelphians since the 1920s. Such organizations as the Philadelphia Concert Orchestra, Dra Mu Opera Company, and Heritage House (Visual and Performing Arts Center)

 

Title: Black Women in America

By Melanye White Dixon

Sage Publications

 

 

Title: Dancing Spirit an Autobiography

By Judith Jamison with Howard Kaplan

Doubleday

 

 

Title: Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance (Studies in Dance History)

By Thomas F. DeFrantz

UW Press

 

Title: Black Ballerina (documentary)

Shirley Road Productions

http://blackballerinadocumentary.org/