Dance by Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Dance by Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Brenda Dixon Gottschild describes herself as a cultural historian. She uses performance-specifically, Dance-as a measure of society and barometer of culture. Dixon Gottschild has been instrumental in originating and investigating a line of thought that had been ignored in previous performance studies-namely, the Africanist presence in European-based American concert Dances.

As the Philadelphia correspondent for Dance Magazine (since 1985), she writes features and reviews on a range of topics, from the Pennsylvania Ballet to hip hop. Her scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as American Studies International, The Drama Review, Dance Research Journal, ...