This week on DANCE BEHIND THE SCREEN PODCAST…
[0:30] Martheya and Azaria introduce Brenda Dixon Gottschild
QUESTIONS WITH BRENDA DIXON GOTTSCHILD
[2:19] Martheya asks: “Can you briefly walk us through your career path? Can you explain activist vs. hater?”
[9:35] Martheya asks: “Do you have advice on how to find supportive networks?”
[11:45] Azaria asks: “You are a truth teller, can you tell us about the backlash you have had?”
[19:00] Azaria asks: “It sounds like the common theme is allies?”
[19:18] Martheya asks: “How do you know what you want to focus on when writing your books?”
#FLASH4
[26:19] Azaria asks:
1- If you had to recommend a resource to our audience what would it be?
2- What was the first dance you saw?
3- Do you think social media has a positive influence on the dance world (yes or no)?
4- What is your favorite social media platform?
#BrendaDixonGottschild Recommended Resources
To learn more about kNOwBOX dance visit http://www.knowboxdance.com/ follow us on social media @knowboxdance and subscribe to our podcast mailing list http://eepurl.com/ggE9w1
Connect with #BrendaDixonGottschild
Facebook- @BrendaDixonGottschild | https://www.facebook.com/bdixongottschild
Instagram- @brendadixongottschild
Website: https://bdixongottschild.com/
[0:30] Martheya and Azaria introduce Brenda Dixon Gottschild
QUESTIONS WITH BRENDA DIXON GOTTSCHILD
[2:19] Martheya asks: “Can you briefly walk us through your career path? Can you explain activist vs. hater?”
[9:35] Martheya asks: “Do you have advice on how to find supportive networks?”
[11:45] Azaria asks: “You are a truth teller, can you tell us about the backlash you have had?”
[19:00] Azaria asks: “It sounds like the common theme is allies?”
[19:18] Martheya asks: “How do you know what you want to focus on when writing your books?”
#FLASH4
[26:19] Azaria asks:
1- If you had to recommend a resource to our audience what would it be?
- Book- White Fragility, https://amzn.to/2Uoj9iY
- Book- Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
- https://amzn.to/2uk4GKb
2- What was the first dance you saw?
- “When I was taken to the Apollo Theater….or Apache Dance”
3- Do you think social media has a positive influence on the dance world (yes or no)?
- BOTH
4- What is your favorite social media platform?
#BrendaDixonGottschild Recommended Resources
- Organization- The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, https://www.pewcenterarts.org/people/brenda-dixon-gottschild
- People- Langston Hughes , https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/langston-hughes
- School- The City College of New York, https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/
- Website- The Root, https://www.theroot.com/
- Website- Black Girl Magic, http://www.blackgirlmagicmag.com
- People- Ruth King, https://ruthking.net/
- People- Sterling Stuckey, https://newsroom.ucr.edu/808, https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/stuckey-ples-sterling-jr-1932-2018/
- People- Susan Leigh Foster, https://amzn.to/2GUkypK
- People- Lawrence W. Levine, https://amzn.to/31oq7pL
- People- Toni Morrison, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toni-Morrison
- People- Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, https://www.urbanbushwomen.org/the-founder
- People- Susan Manning, https://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/manning-susan.html
- School- Temple University, https://www.temple.edu/academics/degree-programs/dance-major-bc-danc-bfa
- Books- Joan Myers Brown & The Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance, https://bdixongottschild.com/books/audacious-hope-of-the-black-ballerinapress-info/
- Books- The Black Dancing Body; A Geography from Coon to Cool, https://bdixongottschild.com/books/the-black-dancing-body-a-geography-from-coon-to-cool/
- Books- Waltzing in the Dark; African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era, https://bdixongottschild.com/books/waltzing-in-the-dark-african-american-vaudeville-and-race-politics-in-the-swing-era/
- Books- Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance; Dance and Other Contexts, https://bdixongottschild.com/books/digging-the-africanist-presence-in-american-performance-dance-and-other-contexts/
- People- Richard Schecner, https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/performance-studies/3508301
- School- New York University, https://tisch.nyu.edu/dance
To learn more about kNOwBOX dance visit http://www.knowboxdance.com/ follow us on social media @knowboxdance and subscribe to our podcast mailing list http://eepurl.com/ggE9w1
Connect with #BrendaDixonGottschild
Facebook- @BrendaDixonGottschild | https://www.facebook.com/bdixongottschild
Instagram- @brendadixongottschild
Website: https://bdixongottschild.com/