“I Don’t Do Black-Dance, I Am a Black Dancer”

Abstract

In this chapter, Namron suggests that the personal connection each dancer has with their dance is what contributes to dance as an art form. He notes that the dance scene is created out of the personal contributions that each dancer makes to the art form; not in terms of how they can be culturally identified but in terms of their personal history, their personal relationships with dance—their performance of dance. He uses his own dance career, which extends over 50 years of dancing in the UK and being a founding member of London Contemporary Dance Theatre, to reflect on the development of the British dance field.