Dance Black America documents a four day festival of dancers and dance companies held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1984. The festival presented the oldest and biggest to the newest and smallest black companies and celebrated the evolution of black dance from the sly parody of plantation quadrilles known as the Cakewalk to the contemporary sophistication of the Alvin AIley company.
Among the performers on this video are Mama Lu Parks' Jazz Dancers, Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theatre, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, The Charles Moore Dance Theatre, The Chuck Davis Dance Company, Eleo Pomare, Chuck Green, The Magnificent Force, The Jazzy Double Dutch Jumpers, Al Perryman, Leon Jackson and Halifu Osumare, and Dejan's Olympia Brass Band.
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