Blondell Cummings
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Blondell Cummings was an American modern dancer and choreographer. She is known for her experimental choreography and was a fixture in the New York and Harlem dance scene for decades.
Cummings in her "for J.B." at the Kitchen in New York City
Joan Acocella
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Joan Barbara Acocella was an American dance critic and author. From 1998 to 2019, she was a dance critic for The New Yorker. She also wrote for The New York Review of Books for 33 years and authored b
Blondell Cummings
…as any Walker Evans photographed and talked of "childhood, friends, operations, death and money." In a more recent article on Ishmael Houston-Jones, Joan Acocella of The New Yorker, wrote of the piece, In 1981 Blondell Cummings made a dance, "Chicken Soup," in which, while scrubbing a floor on her hands and…
Acocella at the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award nominations