Nadine George-Graves
Nadine George-Graves is Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, San Diego and past president of the Congress on Research in Dance.[1][2]
She also served on he executive boards of the American Society for Theater Research and the Society of Dance History Scholars, the editorial boards of SDHS and Choreographic Practices, has been Vice Chair of the department of Theater and Dance, Acting Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities of the UCSD. She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater.[1]
Her creative projects include Architectura, a dance theater piece inspired by architecture,[3] about how we build our lives, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Fucking A, and Topdog/Underdog.[1]
Recipient of the 2014 Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center[4]
Works
She is and author of a number of articles African American theater and dance.[1]
Her major works include:
- The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940, 2003, ISBN 0312225628
- Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out, ISBN 978-0-299-23554-3 (review), 2012 Sally Banes Award honorable mention of the American Society for Theater Research [5]
- "'Just Like Being at the Zoo', Primitivity and Ragtime Dance", in: Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader, 2009, ISBN 025207565X, pp. 55–71