Blondell Cummings : Dance as Moving PicturesTools Juarez, Kristin; Peabody, Rebecca; Phillips, Glenn; DeFrantz, Thomas F.; Aranke, Sampada; Willis, Tara Aisha; Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo. Blondell Cummings : Dance as Moving Pictures. Los Angeles, California: X Artists' Books, 2021.
Abstract (English)"The first monograph dedicated to the pivotal work of African American postmodern dancer, choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings. A foundational figure in dance, Blondell Cummings bridged postmodern dance experimentation and Black cultural traditions. Through her unique movement vocabulary, which she called "moving pictures," Cummings combined the visual imagery of photography and the kinetic energy of movement in order to explore the emotional details of daily rituals and the intimacy of Black home life. In her most well-known work Chicken Soup, Cummings remembered the family kitchen as a basis for her choreography. [...] Bringing together reprints, an extended biography, a chronology of her work, rarely seen documentation, and new research, this book begins to contextualize Cummings's practice at the intersection of dance, moving image, and art histories." -- Publisher's website.
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