Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures

Interdisciplinary look at the innovative work of choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings

Black and white photograph of person wearing light colored jumpsuit jumping in air with one leg bent and both arms up near head.

Blondell Cummings in 3B49, Beatiz Schiller. Getty Research Institute, 2014.M.6. © Beatriz Schiller

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This project sheds new light on artist and choreographer Blondell Cummings by increasing access to her rarely seen works and personal archives. As Cummings experimented with form in her work—combining postmodern dance and Black cultural traditions with the moving image—this research also promotes interdisciplinary understandings of Cummings within larger histories of dance, film, art, and African American studies.

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