Austin Dafora Horton (4 August 1890 – 4 March 1965), also known as Asadata Dafora, was a Sierra Leonean multidisciplinary musician. He was one of the first...

the United States may have been by Asadata Dafora in 1943; Marcia Ethel Heard believes that Pearl Primus hid Dafora's influence on her work. The dance was...

by Sierra Leonean drummer and choreographer Asadata Dafora.: 223  Dancer Abdul Assen, a member of Dafora's Shogola Aloba dance troupe who is credited only...

Humphrey, the dancing is also influenced by the movement studies of Asadata Dafora, Katherine Dunham and Pearl Primus. Revelations has been presented at...

York. She studied dance under Katherine Dunham, Jon Leone Destine, Asadata Dafora, and Martha Graham. In 1970 she and her husband Jackie McLean (whose...

day job in New York City's garment district. Rolle was a member of Asadata Dafora's dance troupe, Shogolo Oloba (later renamed the Federal Theater African...

Sirota, pianist March 2 – Ján Valašťan Dolinský, composer March 4 – Asadata Dafora, drummer March 8 – Tadd Dameron, jazz pianist and composer, 48 March...

studied dance under Asadata Dafora. People in the United States in this era largely regarded Africans as savage and animalistic, and Dafora was part of bringing...

also a part of other dance companies, including Hemsley Winfield and Asadata Dafora, even dancing in drag with the New Negro Art Theatre Dance Troupe.[citation...

his longtime accompanist Lawrence Brown, the multi-discipline artist Asadata Dafora, and numerous others. The following year, she collaborated with the...

Martha Graham, Charles Weidman, Ismay Andrews, and Asadata Dafora. Amongst these influencers, Dafora's influence on Primus has been largely ignored by historians...

Hall in Cleveland, Moore saw West African dancer and choreographer, Asadata Dafora, perform the Ostrich Dance. Inspired to begin studying dance himself...

Between 1946 and 1951, she lived in New York City, where her brother Asadata Dafora Horton was a successful musician and dancer. While living in the US...

to June 20, 1936, Jordan worked with Johnson, Porter Grainger, and Asadata Dafora providing music for the Federal Theatre Project production of Shakespeare's...

Federal Theatre Project's Negro Theatre Unit in New York City. He and Asadata Dafora choreographed Welles's Voodoo Macbeth, and Yates was in the cast of...

2021. ISBN 0195128028; OCLC 1003045645 (all editions). → Vol. 6 ANB ("Dafora, Asadata" – "Dubuclet, Antoine"). 1999. Retrieved 4 June 2021 – via Google Books...

musician who created and popularized Creole gumbe music and maringa music Asadata Dafora (1890–1965), multidisciplinary musician Evelyn Mary Dove (1902–1987)...

Chicago". Billboard. August 5, 1944. p. 26. Perpener, John O. III (2012). "Asadata Dafora Horton (1890–1965)" (PDF). Danceheritage.org. The Dance Heritage Coalition...

found one of the largest gospel publishing companies in the world. Asadata Dafora's Kykuntor is produced in New York; it is the first African ballet-opera...

upcoming staging of Oscar Wilde’s Salome with the Sierra Leonean-born Asadata Dafora. On May 7, 1932 Guy staged a concert at Roerich hall in a program organized...

Alice Brown; 1930–2007), also an American, was a principal dancer for Asadata Dafora's Dance Company — the first dance company to put African dance and music...

his longtime accompanist Lawrence Brown, the multi-discipline artist Asadata Dafora, and numerous others. The following year, Hansberry and Childress, an...