Nadine George-Graves’ work is situated at the intersections of African American studies, critical gender studies, performance studies, theatre history, and dance history. She is the author of The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900-1940, as well as Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out, and numerous articles on African American performance. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater, a collection of border-crossing scholarship on embodiment and theatricality. She has also written on primitivity, ragtime dance, tap dance legend Jeni LeGon, identity politics and performance, competition, social change, early African American theatre, and the future of performance in the academy. She has given talks, led community engagement projects, and served on many boards and committees. She is the executive co-editor of Dance Research Journal (DRJ).
George is also an artist, and her creative work is part and parcel of her research. She is an adapter, director, and dance theatre maker. Her recent creative projects include directing and choreographing The White Witch of Rose Hall and working as a dramaturg for The Black Grandmother in the Closet.
Urban Bush Women:
Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater,
Community Engagement, and Working It Out
Wisconsin University Press (2010)
“Urban Bush Women is a clear, concise, and accessible text that will appeal to a broad audience because of its interdisciplinary subject matter. . . . George-Graves effectively demonstrates the significance of Urban Bush Women as both an innovative dance company and an important cultural resource for articulating African American and womanist identities.”— La Donna L. Forsgren, Theatre Journal
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