ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief overview of the career of the black British dance artist and teacher Elroy Josephs between his arrival in Britain in 1950 and his death in 1997 and reflects on the reasons for his relative obscurity. Josephs spoke at an event arranged by dancers and practitioners in response to one organized by the Arts Council. In the twenty-first century, Josephs himself is in danger of being forgotten, and the wonderful tradition of fifty years of dancing, to which he referred, is largely a hidden history. With funds from the Arts Council and some city councils, the trust had provided summer schools in which international teachers of neo-traditional African and Caribbean dance and drumming taught classes to the young black British dancers in the African Caribbean dance companies founded in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
