Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston

While Zora Neale Hurston and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have become widely celebrated, she was also a prolific stage director and choreographer. In the 1930s Hurston produced theatrical concerts that depicted a day in the life of a railroad work camp in Florida and featured a rousing Bahamian Fire Dance as the dramatic finale. In Choreographing the Folk, Anthea Kraut traces the significance and influence of Hurston's little-known choreographic work. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780816647125 Media Type: Paperback(New Edition) Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Publication Date: 10-03-2008 Pages: 312 Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d) Series: Indigenous Americas Ser.Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface ix Introduction: Rediscovering Hurston's Embodied Representations of the Folk 11 Commercialization and the Folk 252 Chreography and the Folk 533 Producing The Great Day 914 Hurston's Embodied Theory of the Folk 1195 Interpreting the Fire Dance 14