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Iroquois social dances

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Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	Film, slide, etc.	Use in library	*MGZIC 9-703	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Additional Authors

Manning, Nick

Description

1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (25 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

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Produced by Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Directed by Nick Manning. Camera: Nick Manning and Aleks Rosenberg. Filmed during a dance festival on Cornwall Island in the St. Lawrence river, part of the St. Regis (Akwesasne) Reserve of the Mohawk Indians. Music performed by the Akwesasne Singers and Musicians. SUMMARY: Part 1 (15 min.) shows nine dances of the Mohawks, the easternmost tribe of the Iroquois League: Women's dance, Fish dance, Stomp dance, Smoke dance, Duck dance, Rabbit dance, Shaking the bush, Robin dance, and Round dance. Part 2 (10 min.) concentrates on illustrating the technique in five of the dances, with special emphasis on the foot movements.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-703

OCLC

NYPY857031151-F

Title

Iroquois social dances [videorecording]

Imprint

1978.

Local Subject

Motion pictures. Iroquois social dances.

Local Subject

Mohawk dance.

Animal dances.

Added Author

Manning, Nick. Director

Manning, Nick. Cinematographer

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-703