Copasetics. [Performance excerpts]
- Title
- Copasetics. [Performance excerpts] [videorecording]
- Published by
- [1977]
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance. | FormatMoving image | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZIA 4-3116 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (39 min.) : sd., b&w NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Summary
- Excerpts from the first half of the Copasetics' stage program, recorded from two different camera angles.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of the American Tap Dance Orchestra.
- Series statement
- American Tap Dance Orchestra Video Library.
- Uniform title
- Great feats of feet (Motion picture)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Contents
- [Recorded from center] (ca. 17 min.). "April in Paris" / performed by Buster Brown, Gaines, Ernest Brown -- Chair dance -- "I want to be happy" [and] "I got rhythm" [and] "Birth of the blues" (Louis Armstrong impression) [and] "I ain't got nobody" / sung by Cross -- "Darktown strutters' ball" [and] Cane dance / performed by Cross and the company.
- [Recorded from stage left] (ca. 22 min.). Impression of Pete Nugent ("Breezin' along with the breeze") [ending] / danced by Cook -- "Mr. Wonderful" / performed by Gibson -- "April in Paris" / performed by Buster Brown, Gaines, Ernest Brown -- Chair dance -- "I want to be happy" [and] "I got rhythm" [and] "Birth of the blues" (Louis Armstrong impression) [and] "I ain't got nobody" / sung by Cross -- "Darktown strutters' ball" [and] Cane dance / performed by Cross and the company.
- Call number
- *MGZIA 4-3116
- Note
- Original container labeled: Copasetics 1975, with time codes, 034 + 051.
- Time code on frame.
- Footage recorded for the documentary Great feats of feet (1977), produced and directed by Brenda Bufalino. For a recording of the completed documentary, see: *MGZIC 7-507.
- For additional data compiled by Tony Waag, archivist, American Tap Dance Orchestra, see *MGX 98-6644 American Tap Dance Orchestra Video Library.
- Performance reviewed by Sally Banes in Dance magazine, July 1977, p. 81-82.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in performance at the Main Building Auditorium, New Paltz, New York, on May 7, 1977.
- Title
- Copasetics. [Performance excerpts] [videorecording]
- Imprint
- [1977]
- Country of producing entity
- U.S.
- Series
- American Tap Dance Orchestra Video Library.
- Performer
- Danced by the Copasetics: Buster Brown, Ernest "Brownie" Brown, Charles "Cookie" Cook, James "Stump" Cross, Leslie "Bubba" Gaines, Albert [Bert] Gibson.
- Singer: James "Stump" Cross.
- Musicians: Milton Larkin (trombone), Dwike Mitchell (piano), "Ditto" Herrar Edwards (percussion).
- Event
- Videotaped in performance at the Main Building Auditorium, New Paltz, New York, on May 7, 1977.
- Added author
- Brown, Buster, 1913-2002, dancer.
- Brown, Ernest, dancer.
- Cook, Charles, 1917-1991, dancer.
- Cross, James. voc, dancer.
- Gaines, Bubba, dancer.
- Gibson, Bert, dancer.
- Larkin, Milton. Instrumentalist
- Mitchell, Dwike. Instrumentalist
- Edwards, Herrar. Instrumentalist
- Bufalino, Brenda. Producer. Director
- Copasetics.
- DHCA.
- Added title
- Great feats of feet (Motion picture)
- Research call number
- *MGZIA 4-3116