Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston
While Zora Neale Hurston and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have become widely celebrated, she was also a prolific stage director and choreographer. In the 1930s Hurston produced theatrical concerts that depicted a day in the life of a railroad work camp in Florida and featured a rousing Bahamian Fire Dance as the dramatic finale. In Choreographing the Folk, Anthea Kraut traces the significance and influence of Hurston's little-known choreographic work.
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While Zora Neale Hurston and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have become widely celebrated, she was also a prolific stage director and choreographer. In the 1930s Hurston produced theatrical concerts that depicted a day in the life of a railroad work camp in Florida and featured a rousing Bahamian Fire Dance as the dramatic finale. In Choreographing the Folk, Anthea Kraut traces the significance and influence of Hurston's little-known choreographic work.
Introduction Rediscovering Hurston's Embodied Representations of the Folk 11 Commercialization and the Folk 252 Choreography and the Folk 533 Producing The Great Day 914 Hurston's Embodied Theory of the Folk 1195 Interpreting the Fire Dance 1456 Black Authenticity, White Artistry 173Coda: Hurston's Choreographic Legacy 213Acknowledgments 219Appendix A Chronology of Known Performances by Hurston and the Bahamian Dancers 223Appendix B Known Members of the Bahamian Dancers between 1932 and 1936 221Notes 229Index 291
