Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Sano, Kemoko.
2. Bangoura, Hamidou.
3. Camara, Lamine.
4. DHCA.

Description

1. 2 streaming video files (75 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

1. Documentation of part of a three-week trip to the interior of Guinea, made by Kemoko Sano and Hamidou Bagoura, respectively choreographer and technical director of Les Ballets Africains of the Republic of Guinea, in search of promising musicians and dancers who might be recruited for the company, and source material for new works. At each site they visited, they were received by local authorities, and watched local troupes. They are often glimpsed observing, recording, and occasionally taking part in the performances.

Subject

1. Dance > Guinea
2. Music > Guinea
3. Drummers (Musicians)
4. Guinea

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.
3. Black films and programs.

Contents

1. Reel 1 (ca. 62 min.). Views of the landscape, recorded in the prefecture of Boffa (ca. 2 min.) -- Prefecture of Boké: Performance in a clearing, including dance, drumming, singing, and some dialogue. Includes a dancer in a bird (?) mask, a men's dance with spades, dancing by men wearing women's clothing and jewelry, a line dance by women accompanied by a woman drummer, an initiation ritual (?) for four men in masks or hoods, a ritual (?) involving gourds of liquid which are poured and drunk by participants, a dancer wearing a mask representing the stylized figure of a woman, dancing drummers, and dancing and singing by a women's ensemble.
2. Reel 2 (ca. 13 min.). Indoor performance onstage in the sub-prefecture of Kamsar, including singing, drumming, and dancing.

Call number

1. *MGZIC 9-5072

Note

1. Title from information provided by Louise Bedichek.
2. Location, date, and time codes at lower left of frame.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped on location in the prefecture of Boké, Guinea, on January 27-28, 1991 by Lamine Camara, a cameraman from Radio-Television of Guinea (RTG).

Title

1. Dance of Guinea. Préfecture de Boké [electronic resource]

Imprint

1. 1991.

Country of producing entity

1. Guinea.

Event

1. Videotaped on location in the prefecture of Boké, Guinea, on January 27-28, 1991 by Lamine Camara, a cameraman from Radio-Television of Guinea (RTG).

Access

1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Local subject

1. Mask dances.

Added author

1. Sano, Kemoko. Depicted
2. Bangoura, Hamidou. Depicted
3. Camara, Lamine. Videographer
4. DHCA.

Research call number

1. *MGZIC 9-5072