This autoethnography explores a dance scholar's previous choreographic trajectory, positioning the author's career within the sixties and seventies Black Arts Movement for social change. I explore several iterations of my dance lecture-demonstration in particular, which was produced over two decades and three continents, demonstrating how temporal and spatial shifts affect the content and context of a choreographic work. Additionally, I explore my shift into arts producing through my national dance initiative that helped define the work of eighties Black choreographers in the postmodern dance movement. The result is a consideration of how being Black, female, and a dancer provides a particular sociohistorical lens.

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编排社会变革：在黑暗中跳舞的反思

这本自体民族志探索了一位舞蹈学者以前的编舞轨迹，将作者的职业生涯定位在六七十年代的黑人艺术运动中，以促进社会变革。我特别探索了我的舞蹈讲座演示的几次迭代，它是在 20 多年和三大洲制作的，展示了时间和空间的变化如何影响编舞作品的内容和背景。此外，我通过我的国家舞蹈计划探索我向艺术制作的转变，该计划帮助定义了八十年代黑人编舞在后现代舞蹈运动中的工作。结果是考虑作为黑人、女性和舞者如何提供一个特定的社会历史视角。