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  1. Feb 2017
    1. The repertory has shifted from what I think of as the wonderful "juice and joy" pieces that once largely defined black dance to choreography that makes fewer allusions to race or African-American culture. The world has changed, and dance with it.

      I agree

    2. She was actually inventing a kind of jazz dancing that operated on the same level of inventiveness as the jazz musicians, in terms of the language, the vocabulary itself," Mr. Byrd said.

      is this an aspect of concert black dance?