T.F. DeFrantz's scientific contributions

Publication (1)

Book
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the civil rights struggle. This book chronicles the troupe's...

Citations

... Dance and choreography can be considered as a reflection of cultural values, as well as a production of them (Eliot, 2007). Novack (1990) and other authors such as Martin (1996), Franko (2002) and DeFrantz (2004), have firmly challenged the idea according to which choreography works only through aesthetic, divided from social and political experiences (Foster, 2011). The Oxford English Dictionary's definition of choreography, reports two meanings of this term: ...