Shall we dance?

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

An hour on continuing innovations in American dance. Choreographer Donald Byrd uses dance to illuminate what it means to be black in America. Elizabeth Streb speaks with Kurt Andersen about how she defies gravity with her “extreme action” techniques. And how the salsa pioneers Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco got the world on its feet.

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.5	This is Studio 360.
0:09.9	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:12.9	This first level of garden.
0:14.3	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.2	I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
0:17.9	Very well done.
0:19.0	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.7	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.3	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.6	Studio 360.
0:27.7	It's good.
0:28.2	Anderson.
0:32.9	Today on Studio 360, we're looking at American dance in a bunch of different flavors,
0:41.6	such as the choreographer Donald Byrd.
0:44.2	For decades now, he's used dance as a way to illuminate what it means to be black in America.
0:50.7	Sometimes his work is gentle.
0:52.1	More often, though, his dances are bracing and arresting.
0:56.5	And as he approaches his 70th birthday, Donald Byrd still pretty relentlessly uses his art to provoke conversation about fairness and justice and most of all about racism.
1:09.5	We dispatched reporter Marcy Silma to have some conversations with Donald Byrd
1:14.0	and to watch him do what he does.
1:17.6	Donald Byrd doesn't sugarcoat his political message.
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