| Description | Off-air recording: BBC Radio 3, 21:30, 45 mins. Dancer and writer Thea Barnes presents a programme dedicated to developments in African-American dance, particularly the work of Katherine Dunham and Pearl Primus, pioneers of this genre. Contributors include: Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Thomas F DeFrantz, E Gaynell Sherrod, Kariamu Welsh Asante, Judith Jamison, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Sheron Wray, Robert Garland and Joan Peters. The programme contains sound excerpts from the Dunham Class at the Alvin Ailey School in New York as well as music from the works of Dunham, Primus and some of the choreographers interviewed. Produced by Richard Bannerman. |