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Blondell Cummings, Kristin Juarez (Ed.), Rebecca Peabody (Ed.), Glenn Phillips (Ed.), Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures

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X Artists’ Books, 2022

Contributors: Sampada Aranke, Sophia Belsheim, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Kristin Juarez, Meredith Monk, Joshua Oduga, Rebecca Peabody, Glenn Phillips, Elizabeth Streb, Edisa Weeks, Tara Aisha Willis, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.

Design: Vivian Sming.

Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures is the first monograph dedicated to the pivotal work of African American choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and Art + Practice, on view at Art + Practice in Los Angeles from September 18, 2021 through February 19, 2022.

A foundational figure in American dance, 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 (1981), Cummings remembered the family kitchen as a basis for her choreography; the dance was designated an American Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006.

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Blondell Cummings, Kristin Juarez (Ed.), Rebecca Peabody (Ed.), Glenn Phillips (Ed.), Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures

$50.00
sold out

X Artists’ Books, 2022

Contributors: Sampada Aranke, Sophia Belsheim, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Kristin Juarez, Meredith Monk, Joshua Oduga, Rebecca Peabody, Glenn Phillips, Elizabeth Streb, Edisa Weeks, Tara Aisha Willis, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.

Design: Vivian Sming.

Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures is the first monograph dedicated to the pivotal work of African American choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and Art + Practice, on view at Art + Practice in Los Angeles from September 18, 2021 through February 19, 2022.

A foundational figure in American dance, 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 (1981), Cummings remembered the family kitchen as a basis for her choreography; the dance was designated an American Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006.

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