Storyville: Germaine Ingram

Storyville: Germaine Ingram

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Screening of Plenty of Good Women Dancers & Cover Your Stage

Plenty of Good Women Dancers (2004, 53 min.) recounts the journey to producing a 1994 Philadelphia revue of the artistry and spunk of senior Black veterans of the popular stage of the early-mid-20thCentury, with focus on Black women tap dancers, whose contributions were overlooked and undervalued.

Cover Your Stage. 2022, Directed & Produced by Germaine Ingram

Cover Your Stage evokes the process of combing local archives for resonances of Louise Madison (1911-1971), an illusive, but exceptional, woman tap dancer from Philadelphia who was among the Black women who used the popular stage to subvert racism and sexism.

Germaine Ingram (Cover Your Stage) is a Philadelphia PA-based jazz percussive dancer, choreographer, song writer, vocal/dance improviser, oral historian, and cultural strategist and archivist. She creates evening-length pieces that explore themes related to history, collective memory and social justice, and designs arts/culture projects that explore and illuminate community cultural history.

Debora Kodish (Plenty of Good Women Dancers) was the founding Director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project (1987-2014).