“Auto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings and Autobiography in Dance” by Ann Cooper Albright Edited by: Dr. Kay Picart and Donna Gallagher Based on a presentation by: Kristen Acuña

Isadora Duncan “As I advance in these memoirs, I realize more and more the impossibility of writing one’s life- or rather the lives of all of the people I have been…” - Isadora Duncan © redescolar.ilce.edu, 2002

Key Terms Autobiography: Intratext: Cultural Moorings:

Key Terms Subjectivity:

Key Term Bio-mythography

Exploring Blondell Cummings “Cummings is interested in finding a way to universalize or, at least, extend her particular concerns in order to allow many people to identify and engage personally with her work” (189). “Doubly inscribed (by the culture) as black and as a woman, Cummings must confront these multiple identities as she places her self-representation on the public stage” (195). © Beatriz Schiller, Community Arts Network, 2004