Black Desire, Theatrical Jazz, and River See

Jones, Omi Osun Joni L.; Bridgforth, Sharon

doi:10.1162/DRAM_a_00406

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December 01 2014

Black Desire, Theatrical Jazz, and River See

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones,

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones is an artist/scholar and Associate Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her scholarship focuses on ethnography, Yoruba-based aesthetics, Black feminisms, activist theatre, and theatrical jazz. She is a member of the Body Politic Think Tank at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, coeditor of Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (University of Texas Press, 2010), and is currently completing the collaborative ethnography Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Ase, and the Power of the Present Moment for Ohio State University Press. jonijones@austin.utexas.edu

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Sharon Bridgforth

Sharon Bridgforth is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and has been in residence at University of Iowa’s MFA Playwrights Program, the Theatre School at DePaul University, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Her River See received support from MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. She is author of love conjure/blues (RedBone Press, 2005) and the bull-jean stories (RedBone Press, 1998), and coeditor of Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (University of Texas Press, 2010). Her script, delta dandi is in solo/black/woman (Northwestern University Press, 2013). sharon.bridgforth@gmail.com

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Omi Osun Joni L. Jones

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones is an artist/scholar and Associate Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her scholarship focuses on ethnography, Yoruba-based aesthetics, Black feminisms, activist theatre, and theatrical jazz. She is a member of the Body Politic Think Tank at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, coeditor of Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (University of Texas Press, 2010), and is currently completing the collaborative ethnography Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Ase, and the Power of the Present Moment for Ohio State University Press. jonijones@austin.utexas.edu

Sharon Bridgforth

Sharon Bridgforth is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and has been in residence at University of Iowa’s MFA Playwrights Program, the Theatre School at DePaul University, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Her River See received support from MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. She is author of love conjure/blues (RedBone Press, 2005) and the bull-jean stories (RedBone Press, 1998), and coeditor of Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (University of Texas Press, 2010). Her script, delta dandi is in solo/black/woman (Northwestern University Press, 2013). sharon.bridgforth@gmail.com

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2014

TDR/The Drama Review (2014) 58 (4 (224)): 136–146.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00406

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The complexities of Black desire can be understood anew through the lens of theatrical jazz. The fluidity of time and space that characterizes theatrical jazz opens a space for a self-determined Black desire that is situated outside of prescriptions about what Black desire might be.

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