Cleveland Public Library

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Passport Project visits Main Library

Passport Project's mission is to provide exciting educational experiences that build community through the arts, encourage respect for diversity and rejection of racism, and inspire a passion for learning and the global community. On November 21st, 2009 at 2PM in the Louis Stokes Wing auditorium of the Cleveland Public Library (325 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, 44114), the Passport Project Global Dance & Music Collective will present music and dance from around the world, with a special interactive presentation of dance and percussion of Guinea as shared by Mohamed Tounkara, Passport Project's guest artist from this West African country. A slide show of photographs from Guinea will be shared as well, as we consider community in one of the poorest nations in the world and how we can build community in Northeast Ohio. For more information on this FREE performance call 216.623-2848. 

Passport Project is based in the Buckeye neighborhood of Cleveland. 12801 Buckeye Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44120, (216) 721-1055. http://www.passportproject.org/

Check out these books to learn more about African dance:

Black dance by Edward Thorpe
Black dance in America: a history through its people by James Haskins
The black dancing body: a geography from coon to cool by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
The Black tradition in American dance by Richard A. Long
Dance Jamaica: cultural definition and artistic discovery: the National Dance Theatre Company of The dances of Africa by Claude Savary
Jamaica, 1962-1983 by Rex Nettleford ; preface by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Dancing many drums: excavations in African American dance, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz
Dooplé: the eternal law of African dance by Alphonse Tiérou ; translated from the French by Deirdre McMahon
Jookin': the rise of social dance formations in African-American culture by Katrina Hazzard-Gordon
Modern dance, Negro dance: race in motion by Susan Manning
Soulstepping: African American step shows by Elizabeth C. Fine.