She also served on he executive boards of the American Society for Theater Research and the Society of Dance History Scholars, the editorial boards of SDHS and Choreographic Practices, has been Vice Chair of the department of Theater and Dance, Acting Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities of the UCSD.
She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater.
Her creative projects include Architectura, a dance theater piece inspired by architecture, about how we build our lives, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Fucking A, and Topdog/Underdog.
Recipient of the 2014 Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center
Works
She is and author of a number of articles African American theater and dance.
Her major works include:
The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940, 2003, ISBN 0312225628
George Graves (1784–1839) was the author of a comprehensive instruction guidebook for beginners in natural history at a time when there was a growing interest in collecting animal, plant and geological specimens.
The naturalist's pocket-book
His The naturalist's pocket-book, or Tourist's companion: being a brief introduction to the different branches of natural history: with approved methods for collecting and preserving the various productions of nature was published in London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown in 1818. Written in the tradition of Francis Bacon, it expressed the belief that natural history was about the exploration of nature's bounty for the benefits it could bring to humans:
The book included sample pages showing the layout which Graves used in his own field notebook, with columns for recording important facts about these points as each item was observed. This encouraged collectors to keep a field notebook recording the information needed for accurate labelling and a formal description of the object. Excerpts from these field notebooks were often included in published descriptions.
George Windsor Graves (1January1876 – 2April1949) was an English comic actor. Although he could neither sing nor dance, he became a leading comedian in musical comedies, adapting the French and Viennese opéra-bouffe style of light comic relief into a broader comedy popular with English audiences of the period. His comic portrayals did much to ensure the West End success of Véronique (1904) The Little Michus (1905; for which he invented the Gazeka), and The Merry Widow (1907).
In addition to musical comedy, operettas and revues, Graves specialised in pantomime and music hall. Later in his career, he was a frequent broadcaster and made several films, always in comic roles, but continued to perform on stage. His last stage success was in Me and My Girl (1937).
Early life and career
Graves was born in London and made his stage debut at the age of 19 in an Edwardian musical comedy in Portsmouth. In its obituary notice, The Times wrote, "from the line then chosen [he] deviated during the next 40 years only into pantomime and music hall sketches." Although he could neither sing nor dance, he made his career in comic parts in musical pieces. His first success on the London stage was as General Marchmont in The School Girl in 1903, followed the next year by MacSherry in Madame Sherry and Coquenard in Messager's Véronique (1904). For the next five years, Graves was cast in comic roles in George Edwardes productions, becoming a leading comedian of his day.
Reagan earned the nickname “The Gipper” for his first big role as an actor portraying gravely ill football player GeorgeGipp in the 1940 film classic, “Knute Rockne-All American.”.
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