L-12 Dance and American Art: A Long Embrace
- Sharyn Udall *
- Thursday, Apr 19; 2-4
- $7 for members, $10 for nonmembers
From ballet to ballroom, from flamenco to modern, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, dance has formed a vital part of American culture. Throughout our history, many American visual artists have explored the subject of dance and have tried to capture the graceful, rhythmic, amusing, innovative, or shocking ways dancers move. Visual artists have imaged both the celebrated—those whose names have become household words such as Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, and Martha Graham—and the obscure, such as the anonymous couples who struggled through Depression-era dance marathons to earn a paycheck.
Sharyn Udall will present an illustrated talk, based on her new book, Dance and American Art: A Long Embrace, which demonstrates the fascination many American painters, sculptors, and photographers have for this subject. She will discuss the ways these dance images have reflected and shaped American culture for the last two centuries.
Sharyn Udall, PhD, is an art historian, independent curator, longtime college instructor, and author of nine books on various aspects of American and European art.
* new to Renesan