About the Book

Award-Winning Journalist and Photographer Hal Banfield brings this photographic series to life in the pages of his first NAACP Image Award winning book capturing the grace, beauty, and strength of black dancers in motion.

I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer shines a spotlight on dancers from the concert to the commercial world of dance, and infuses stories from dancers, in their own words, about the space they hold in the world of dance, what dance means to them primarily and what being a dancer of color represents to them, especially.

I Am Dance is an intimate encounter with dancers that will leave you not with just beautiful images to behold, but will also share with you a love and appreciation for the art of dance, with insight into the talent, passion, heart and revelations of dancers of color.