The Balanchine Dilemma: “So-Called Abstraction” and the Rhetoric of Circumvention in Black-and-White Ballets by Tamara Tomić-Vajagić

Subjects: “…George Balanchine…”
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21M.670 / SP.472 / WGS.472 Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography, Spring 2003 by DeFrantz, Thomas

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Premesse di un’estetica africanista by Brenda Dixon Gottschild

“…Thus, it provides a seminal methodological tool both for an understanding of the distinctive precepts of African-American Dance and for the disclosure of the underground traces of this culture and aesthetics in shaping Euro-American choreographers’ work, such as George Balanchine’s ballet.…”
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Black Dancers and White Ballet: Case of Cuba by Larisa Nikiforova, Anastasiia Vasileva, Mayumi Sakamoto de Miasnikov

“…We demonstrate that the Alonso triumvirate was a good indicator of the problem: Alicia and Fernando as performers, and Alberto Alonso as a choreographer, participated in a cultural movement directed at the rebirth of Cuban identity, they performed African American dances, and they worked together with George Balanchine, who adapted black dance and invited black dancers into his company. …”
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