African origins: Transferring traditions to stage
- Title
- African origins: Transferring traditions to stage [videorecording]
- Published by
- 1989.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (29 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Guests are choreographer Marie Brooks, head of Marie Brooks Dance Theatre; Michel Boudon, a specialist in French and African music; and actress Colette Berge, who interprets for Boudon. They discuss the living traditions of African music and dance, along with their offshoots in the Caribbean and South America, and the importance of preserving this heritage in the U.S. today. Boudon describes the function of the griot, or oral historian, which Brooks compares to that of the calypsonian in Trinidad. Other topics include ritual dancing among the Pende of Zaire, the universality of dance, and drumming. Depicted in performance footage are Brooks and her company dancing outdoors, and numerous excerpts from the revue Africa Oyé!, including a Kanouri (Niger) instrumental piece, dances of the Pende and Batwa-Ekonda (Zaire), the Peul acrobats of Guinea, and Percussions de Guinée.
- Series statement
- Eye on dance ; 286
- Uniform title
- Africa Oyé!
- Subject
- Call number
- *MGZIC 9-3072
- Note
- Produced by ARC Videodance as part of the television series Eye on dance. Recorded on May 15, 1989 at the studios of WNYC-TV, New York. Telecast on May 25, 1989. Producers: Celia Ipiotis and Jeff Bush. Video director: Richard Sheridan. Program director: Celia Ipiotis. Technical director: Jeff Bush. Host: Celia Ipiotis.
- Title
- African origins: Transferring traditions to stage [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 1989.
- Series
- Eye on dance ; 286
- Local subject
- Television. African origins.
- Television. Eye on dance.
- Local subject
- Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Africa.
- Local subject
- Calypso.
- Local subject
- Mask dances.
- Acrobatic dancing.
- Added author
- Brooks, Marie, 1929- Interviewee. Performer
- Boudon, Michel. Interviewee
- Berge, Colette. Interviewee
- Ipiotis, Celia. Host. Producer. Director
- Bush, Jeffrey C. Producer. Director
- Marie Brooks Dance Theatre.
- Percussions de Guinée (Company)
- ARC Videodance (Firm)
- Added title
- Africa Oyé!
- Research call number
- *MGZIC 9-3072