Research Catalog

Title

Dance Black America [videorecording] : [a festival of modern, jazz, tap & African styles] / [filmed] by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus ; produced by Pennebaker Associates, Inc. and State University of New York.

Publication

Pennington, N.J. : Dance Horizons Video, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pennebaker, D. A.
• Hegedus, Chris.
• Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014.
• Pennebaker Associates.
• State University of New York.
• Brooklyn Academy of Music.
• Sveriges television.
• Channel Four (Great Britain)
• Dance Horizons (Firm). Video.

Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (88 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Film produced from dance productions of the Black American Dance Festival, April 21-24, 1983, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The film includes major contemporary Black dancers and dance companies in the context of a historical survey which indicates the African and Caribbean heritage upon which Black American dance is based.

Subjects

• Dance festivals > New York (State) > New York
• Modern dance > United States
• Dance > United States
• Dance, Black
• African American dance

Note

• Originally produced as documentary film in 1984.
• Co-produced with Channel Four Television, Ltd., and Swedish TV.

Credits (note)

• Musical director, Rudy Stevenson ; narration, Geoffrey Holder.

ISBN

0871271591

OCLC

• ocm13513893
• SCSB-927494

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library