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DanceAfrica 2001 rhythms from the circle of life

Title: DanceAfrica 2001 [videorecording] : rhythms from the circle of life / presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music ; artistic director, Chuck Davis.
Publication: c2001.

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Description

2 videocassettes (151 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Uniform Title

Terrestrial wombs (Choreographic work : Salaam)
Rhythm legacy (Choreographic work : Salaam)
Revival (Choreographic work : Rahman-Ndiaye, A and Rahman-Ndiaye, O)
Bai ndiaye (Choreographic work : Rahman-Ndiaye, A and Rahman-Ndiaye, O)
If life is music then let me dance (Choreographic work : Rwangyezi)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Accompanied by house program.

Access (note)

Permission required.

Credits (note)

Lighting, William H. Grant, III ; stage manager, N'Goma Woolbright ; assistant stage manager, Normadien Woolbright ; production stage manager, Jennifer Moody.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 27, 2001 ; video documentation, Character Generators Inc. ; camera, Mark Robison.

Contents

Cassette 1 (ca. 69 min.). Memorial / choreography, Chuck Davis, assisted by Patricia Dye ; music, Sweet Honey in the Rock ("Echo") ; danced by the BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble, P.A.K.A. (Passing Ancestral Knowledge Along) Dance Company, and candlebearers.
Welcoming / by Chuck Davis.
Terrestrial wombs / choreography, music direction, set, environmental set, Abdel R. Salaam ; costumes, Helen Simmons, Abdel R. Salaam ; danced by Forces of Nature: Dina Lynn Wright (Eah Mun [moon, seawaters/the great mother]) and other dancers (NuNuNyuKju [children of the great waters]) ; musicians, Randall Alston, Kojo Ayine Johnson, Ade Love, Kwesi Nkroma, Abdel R. Salaam, Abu Shabazz.
Cultural connections / winning poetry of BSRC's [Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation] Poetry Slam Contest.
Revival / artistic direction, Obara Wali Ahmed Rahman-Ndiaye, Andara Koumba Rahman-Ndiaye ; performed by Sabar Ak Ru Afriq Dance Theatre (SARA) with the Jahrama Ndiaye Ensemble ; cast: El Dar Rahman-Ndiaye (the drumming griot) ; [Andara?] Koumba Rahman-Ndiaye (the healer woman) ; Aissatou Bey-Grecia (the spirit mother) ; Jamila Williams (the daughter) ; and others, including child dancers.
Cassette 2 (ca. 82 min.). Cultural connections II / winning poetry from BSRC's Poetry Slam Contest.
Rhythm legacy: the living books ; Book IV, Club legacy and beyond / artistic direction, choreography, set, Abdel R. Salaam ; DJ explorations, Kojo Ayine Johnson ; costumes, Olabamidele A. Husbands, Abdel R. Salaam, William Fleet, Jr. ; lighting, Eun Chi Oh ; performed by Forces of Nature: Randall Alston, Shawn Banks, Kojo Ayine Johnson, Kwabena Johnson, Kwesi Nkroma, Abdel R. Salaam, Abu Shabazz, Jerome Williams, Osé Adabbio William. Includes break dancing.
Bai ndiaye / choreography, Andara Koumba Rahman-Ndiaye, Obara Wali Ahmed Rahman-Ndiaye ; choreo-staging and musical development, Obara Wali Ahmed Rahman-Ndiaye ; [music] arranged and conducted by Obara Wali Ahmed Rahman-Ndiaye ; costuming, Koumba Rahman Ndiaye, Donna Yacine Ashe, Wali Rahman Ndiaye, the Company ; dancers, Aissatou Makeda Diop, Donna Yacine Ashe, lee marieme priestly ; drummers, Andara Koumba Rahman-Ndiaye, Ayele' Nkromah Bandele', Marcia Ethel Heard Ph.D., Jerry McCoy, Michael Charles Heard Mbaye. Salute to Maam Wali Ndiaye, the great spirit of drumming.
If life is music then let me dance / artistic direction and choreography, Stephen Rwangyezi ; danced by the Ndere Troupe: Marcheal Adyiku, Betty Akidi, Joyce Alinga, Peter Kabodha, Pedson Kasume, Ronald Kibirige, Douglas Kosoro, Sarah Naggayi, Christine Nakawungu, Aminah Namakula, Irene Namatovu, Catherine Namisango, Sam Okello, Stephen Rwangyezi, Emmanuel Shema ; with the dancers and drummers of the BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble. Includes Agwara (processional), Ding-ding (dance of young girls, from the Acholl in northern Uganda), musical interlude, Runyege-ntogoro (men's dance).
Grand finale / introduction of performing groups and their leaders by Chuck Davis ; followed by a tribute to dance historian Joe Nash (seated onstage), including a tap dance by four boys, the Ntore or dance of the royal Watusi (man's solo with spear and shield), a dance duet, and the presentation of a plaque to Mr. Nash.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5928

OCLC

NYPY02-F486

Title

DanceAfrica 2001 [videorecording] : rhythms from the circle of life / presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music ; artistic director, Chuck Davis.

Imprint

c2001.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 27, 2001 ; video documentation, Character Generators Inc. ; camera, Mark Robison.

Credits

Lighting, William H. Grant, III ; stage manager, N'Goma Woolbright ; assistant stage manager, Normadien Woolbright ; production stage manager, Jennifer Moody.

Restricted Access

Permission required.

Added Author

Davis, Chuck, 1937- director.

Davis, Chuck, 1937- choreographer.

Davis, Chuck, 1937- speaker.

Wright, Dina, dancer.

Rahman, Andara, choreographer, dancer. Musician

Bey-Grecia, Aissatou, dancer.

Williams, Jamila, dancer.

Nash, Joe, 1919-2005.

Grant, William H., III.

Woolbright, Ngoma.

Gibson-Woolbright, Normadien.

Salaam, Abdel R., choreographer. Musician. Designer. Costume designer

Simmons, Helen L., costume designer.

Rahman-Ndiaye, Obara Wali Ahmed, choreographer. Musician. Costume designer

Oh, Eun Chi.

Husbands, Olabamidele A. Costume designer

Fleet, William. Costume designer

Rwangyezi, Stephen, choreographer, dancer.

Robison, Mark (Cameraman), videographer.

BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble.

PAKA Dance Theater Company.

Sweet Honey in the Rock (Musical group)

Forces of Nature (Dance company)

Sabar ak Ru Afriq (Dance company)

Ndere Troupe.

Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.

Character Generators/Video.

DanceAfrica (Festival)

Added Title

Terrestrial wombs (Choreographic work : Salaam)

Rhythm legacy (Choreographic work : Salaam)

Revival (Choreographic work : Rahman-Ndiaye, A and Rahman-Ndiaye, O)

Bai ndiaye (Choreographic work : Rahman-Ndiaye, A and Rahman-Ndiaye, O)

If life is music then let me dance (Choreographic work : Rwangyezi)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5928

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