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The American Dance Festival's Dancing in the light : six dances by African-American choreographers

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The American Dance Festival's Dancing in the light : six dances by African-American choreographers / Executive producer, Charles L. Reinhart ; producer, Jodee Nimerichter ; director and writer, Madison Davis Lacy ; a production of the American Dance Festival in association with Thirteen/WNET New York.
Publication
West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Dafora, Asadata, 1890-1965.
  • Dunham, Katherine.
  • Primus, Pearl.
  • Beatty, Talley.
  • McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018.
  • Jones, Bill T.
  • Reinhart, Charles L.
  • Nimerichter, Jodee.
  • Lacy, Madison Davis.
  • Diggs, Taye.
  • American Dance Festival.
  • WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Description
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
The American Dance Festival presents Dancing in the Light presents a one-hour modern dance television program showcasing 6 historic dance compositions by African American choreographers. All of the dances were originally recorded for the Emmy Award-winning series Free to Dance, a three-hour documentary that aired on PBS in 2001 as part of the Great Performances: Dance in America series. Dancing in the Light features six dances in their entirety or in the case of one work, a complete section. --Kultur web site (www.kulturfilms.com)
Alternative Title
  • Dancing in the light
  • Six dances by African-American choreographers
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Genre/Form
  • Documentary television programs.
  • DVD-Video discs.
Credits (note)
  • Editor, Girish Bhargava ; camera, Ed Fussell, Ronnie Smith, Tom Hurwitz.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Contents
Ostrich (Awassa astrige) Asadata Dafora (1932) -- Barrelhouse blues (excerpt) Katherine Dunham (1943) -- Strange fruit Pearl Primus (1943) -- Mourner's bench Talley Beatty (1947) -- Rainbow 'round my shoulder Donald Mc Kayle (1959) -- D-Man in the waters, section 1 Bill T. Jones (1989).
ISBN
  • 0769785204
  • 9780769785202
LCCN
032031425194
OCLC
  • 1242084777
  • on1242084777
  • SCSB-9054191
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries