British Dance Research Paper

British Dance: Influential Black Dancers Made an Impact on Britain “Like Britain itself, British dance has been informed by different waves of immigration”, says dance history professor Ramsay Burt (Roy). Ballet “took root” through a determined Polish woman, Marie Rambert, and Irishwoman, Ninette de Valois (Roy). Modern dance was arranged by exiles form Germany in the 1930s and visitors from America in the 1950s and 1960s (Roy). The stories and history of black British dancers however, tends to be left out of British dance history. His or her stories deserve to be told along with everyone else’s. Ramsay Burt and Christy Adair put together a new exhibition called British Dance: Black Routes, 1946-2005, in the International Slavery Museum in …show more content…
The five drummers were from Nigeria (“History of Black Dance”). The company rapidly won glowing reviews and toured both in Britain and internationally and was a “blazing a trail for black culture”; however Les Ballets Nègres and black dance in general was not relevant in the history books (“History of Black Dance”). The company closed in 1952 because without “subsidy and capital” to maintain dancers the company wouldn’t last (“History of Black Dance”). Pasuka and Riley influenced many young dancers during their …show more content…
He moved to England from Jamaica in the 1950s (Adewole). Josephz trained in Ballet and Caribbean dance forms and was a member of Les Ballets Negres (Adewole). After Les Ballets Negres ended due to a lack of funding, Josephz worked in London and started Dance Company 7, which he left in the able hands of Carl Campbell when he moved to Liverpool to teach (Adewole). Sue Lancaster and Steve Mulrooney now well know dance practitioners who continue to work in the Liverpool area were teenagers when they met Josephz (Adewole). The 1980s was a time of race riots and social change, but Josephz’s love for dance and the community shaped and gave direction to the youth (Adewole). Mulrooney at the time was a break-dancer; part of the Eastwood Rockers and Lancaster was attending a conventional dance school but rather uninterested not knowing where it would take her (Adewole). Lancaster and Mulrooney used to watch Josephz teaching his jazz dance class through the glass walls of a posh building at the teacher training college; he caught them one day learning his technique from the outside and invited them in (Adewole). When they said they could not pay, he offered them free classes; soon they ended up dancing in his company (Adewole). By the time Sue Lancaster was twenty-one she and Steve Mulrooney were running a youth training scheme, teaching, dancing in a company and following the