"The Black Artists Group (BAG), formed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1968, is often seen as a junior stepsibling to Chicago’s
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), which launched a few years earlier. But while the AACM was focused entirely on music, BAG was a multidisciplinary arts organization that included writers and poets, dancers, actors and painters. Because of this, many BAG performances featured elements of all of these in combination, and albums often combined jazz with poetry and theater. One of the albums released by a BAG collective, Children Of The Sun’s
Ofamfa, featured the statement 'The dancers who worked with the group are Carolyn Zachary, Etta Jackson, Johadi, and Sandra Weaver' on the back cover. ..."
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