Mura Dehn
eBook - PDF

Mura Dehn

Champion of Black Social Dance and the Traditional Jazz Dance Company

  1. 265 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Mura Dehn

Champion of Black Social Dance and the Traditional Jazz Dance Company

About this book

This book tells the relatively unknown story of Mura Dehn (1902- 1987) a white, Jewish dancer from Russia, once deemed among the most beautiful classical dancers in Europe, who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s.

For the first time the efforts of Dehn to record, analyse and champion the development of jazz dance in America during the 1930s, 40s and 50s are brought to life. The book celebrates and explores her long-term commitment to supporting and nurturing Black American jazz dancers, and devoting her life to heralding and chronicling its innovators and creators through performance, teaching and film-making.

This work includes both first-hand accounts with people who knew and worked with Dehn, including her company manager Allen Blitz, friend Eiko Otake, and notable urban dance scholars such as Sally Sommer; and material from Dehn's archival collection in the New York Public Library.

The book offers a flavour of the dance halls, the first places of social-racial integration in America, where jazz was born out of African-American social dances, and gives credence to the growing acceptance of this form of art as equivalent to classical dance and music.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2026
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781350428041
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
American Drama

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. A Note from the Author
  7. Introduction: Cakewalk Not Only Moved the Feet, It Moved the World
  8. Chapter 1: Jazz Dance: The Soul Feeling of the Body
  9. Chapter 2: The Realization of Maria Mura Tsiperovitsch
  10. Chapter 3: The Dance Hall, the Dance Stage, and the Academy
  11. Chapter 4: Swingsters, Masters, and Champions
  12. Chapter 5: Jazz Profound
  13. Chapter 6: The Spirit Moves: A Life’s Mission
  14. Chapter 7: Rag to Rock, Section I : The Program and Cast
  15. Chapter 7: Rag to Rock, Section II: The African Tour
  16. Chapter 8: The Traditional Jazz Dance Company, 1969–74
  17. Chapter 9: Rhythm: A Driving Force
  18. Chapter 10: Lessons from the Academy
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index of Mini-Bios
  22. Index of Subjects

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