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[Katherine Dunham footage from Divine drumbeats]

Title
[Katherine Dunham footage from Divine drumbeats] [videorecording] / [WNET/Thirteen ; directed by Merrill Brockway ; produced by Merrill Brockway and Catherine Tatge].
Publication
[1980]

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Additional Authors
  • Dunham, Katherine
  • Davis, Norman
  • Bennett, Doris
  • Reynolds, Pearl
  • Lastarria, Emilio
  • Van Scott, Glory
  • Brown, Ed (Dancer)
  • Jones, John, 1937-
  • Anderson, Paquita.
  • Auric, Georges, 1899-1983.
  • Pratt, John, 1912?-1986.
  • Brockway, Merrill.
  • Tatge, Catherine.
  • Katherine Dunham Company.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (50 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Marshall Izen.
Uniform Title
Rites de passage (Choreographic work : Dunham)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Note
  • Unedited film footage includes: two time counters continuously on top of screen; scene takes 201-223.
Event (note)
  • Unedited footage from WNET-TV's Dance in America series originally aired on April 16, 1980.
Contents
Rites de passage / choreography, Katherine Dunham; music, Paquita Anderson, Georges Auric, and Katherine Dunham; costumes, John Pratt; performed by members of the Dunham Company: Part 1, Fertility, danced by Norman Davis (the young man), Doris Bennett (the young woman), Pearl Reynolds (the matriarch) -- Part 2, Puberty, danced by Emilio Lastarria (the boy initiate), Vanoye Aikens (the warrior chief) -- Part 3, Death, danced by Glory van Scott (the queen), Vanoye Aikens (the consort), John Jones (the herald), Ed Brown (the witch doctor), Emilio Lastarria (Death); with Barbara Wright Craig, Lesa Huston, Perry Moore, Andrea Smythe, Lynn Sterling, Charles La Vont Williams, and Camille Yarbrough.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-2889
OCLC
153901973
Title
[Katherine Dunham footage from Divine drumbeats] [videorecording] / [WNET/Thirteen ; directed by Merrill Brockway ; produced by Merrill Brockway and Catherine Tatge].
Imprint
[1980]
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Event
Unedited footage from WNET-TV's Dance in America series originally aired on April 16, 1980.
Local Note
Title and content note supplied by catalogers based on *MGZIC 9-155.
Local Subject
Television. Dance in America.
Television. Divine drumbeats: Katherine Dunham.
Television. Rites de passage.
Added Author
Izen, Marshall. Donor
Dunham, Katherine, choreographer.
Davis, Norman, dancer.
Bennett, Doris, dancer.
Reynolds, Pearl, dancer.
Lastarria, Emilio, dancer.
Van Scott, Glory, dancer.
Brown, Ed (Dancer), dancer.
Jones, John, 1937- dancer.
Anderson, Paquita. Composer
Auric, Georges, 1899-1983. Composer
Pratt, John, 1912?-1986. Designer
Brockway, Merrill. Director
Brockway, Merrill. Producer
Tatge, Catherine. Producer
Katherine Dunham Company.
Added Title
Rites de passage (Choreographic work : Dunham)
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-2889
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