Research Catalog

Title

[Tassilo Adam film screening at the Asian Cultural Council] [videorecording].

Publication

[199-?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Adam, Tassilo
• Burton, Deena
• Asian Cultural Council

Description

2 videodiscs (PAL) (80 min.) : sd., col. and b&w; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Deena Burton Collection

Alternative Title

Dina Burton program at the ACC : Indonesian cultural dances, 1920

Subject

• Adam, Tassilo
• Dance > Indonesia
• Court dancing > Indonesia > Java
• Dance > Indonesia > Nias Island
• Bull racing
• Wayang wong (Dance drama)
• Gamelan
• Cakalele (Dance)
• Street dancing > Java
• Kuda kepang (Dance)
• Garebeg
• Bedhaya (Dance)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Title supplied by cataloger.

Event (note)

• Recorded at the Asian Cultural Council, New York City, in 199-?

Funding (note)

• Funding for the preservation and cataloging of the Deena Burton Collection was provided in part by the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Skip La Plante.

Biography (note)

• Deena Burton, 1948-2005, was an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar of Indonesian dance. During her first trip to Indonesia in 1976-1980, she studied a variety of Indonesian dance styles. After returning to New York City, she obtained a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University in 1982. Working with several dance, music, and theater groups, she staged both original and Indonesian choreographies, and founded her own company, Bali-Java Dance Theater. She frequently collaborated with composer Skip La Plante, whom she later married. She was among the founders of the New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan ensemble, later called Gamelan Kusuma Laras. She was a major force behind the not-for-profit organization Arts Indonesia. At the New York Public Library, she edited the Tassilo Adam films, an invaluable collection shot in Indonesia in the 1920s, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to take the edited films to Indonesia in 1989-1990. She received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University in 1997, writing her dissertation on Claire Holt. For a fuller biography, see: http://www.gamelan.org/deenaburton/deenabio.html.

Local note

• For complete versions of the edited films, see: *MGZHB 9-1773, *MGZHB 9-1774, *MGZHB 9-1775, and *MGZHB 9-1776, all titled Dances, ceremonies and culture of Indonesia from 1921-1928.

Contents

• Disc 1 film excerpts: Nias -- North Sulawesi, including the cakalele dance -- Java: taledek or street dance, kuda kepang -- Madura: bull races or harapan sapi -- Yogyakarta, Java: garebeg festival, procession celebrating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad -- Surakarta, Java: garebeg festival -- Yogyakarta: wayang wong.
• Disc 2 film excerpts: Yogyakarta: wayang wong, continued -- Love dance of Irawan and Dewi Titisari -- Gamelan -- Kraton Surakarta: bedoyo.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4377

OCLC

275278809

Title

[Tassilo Adam film screening at the Asian Cultural Council] [videorecording].

Imprint

[199-?]

Series

Deena Burton Collection

System Details

DVD.

Event

Recorded at the Asian Cultural Council, New York City, in 199-?

Summary

After her return from Fulbright year in Indonesia in 1989-1990, Deena Burton presented a program of selections from Tassilo Adam's ethnographic films of the 1920s, which she had edited, to an audience of Americans and Indonesians. She introduces the films with a brief biography of Tassilo Adam and a description of her own involvement with the films. The film excerpts, which are b&w and silent, begin at ca. 7 min. into Disc 1. Burton provides a running commentary, inviting questions and comments from the audience. The excerpts shown provide samples of Indonesia's wide variety of dance forms, from the tribal and folk dances of Nias, Sulawesi, and Java to the highly refined dance dramas of the princely courts in Yogyakarta and Surakarta or Solo.

Funding

Funding for the preservation and cataloging of the Deena Burton Collection was provided in part by the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography

Deena Burton, 1948-2005, was an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar of Indonesian dance. During her first trip to Indonesia in 1976-1980, she studied a variety of Indonesian dance styles. After returning to New York City, she obtained a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University in 1982. Working with several dance, music, and theater groups, she staged both original and Indonesian choreographies, and founded her own company, Bali-Java Dance Theater. She frequently collaborated with composer Skip La Plante, whom she later married. She was among the founders of the New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan ensemble, later called Gamelan Kusuma Laras. She was a major force behind the not-for-profit organization Arts Indonesia. At the New York Public Library, she edited the Tassilo Adam films, an invaluable collection shot in Indonesia in the 1920s, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to take the edited films to Indonesia in 1989-1990. She received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University in 1997, writing her dissertation on Claire Holt. For a fuller biography, see: http://www.gamelan.org/deenaburton/deenabio.html.

Local Note

For complete versions of the edited films, see: *MGZHB 9-1773, *MGZHB 9-1774, *MGZHB 9-1775, and *MGZHB 9-1776, all titled Dances, ceremonies and culture of Indonesia from 1921-1928.

Source

Gift; Skip La Plante.

Local Subject

Cakalele (Dance)

Street dancing -- Java.

Kuda kepang (Dance)

Garebeg.

Added Author

Adam, Tassilo. Cinematographer

Burton, Deena.

Asian Cultural Council.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4377