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

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  1. 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.
Published by
  1. West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional authors
  1. Dafora, Asadata, 1890-1965.
  2. Dunham, Katherine.
  3. Primus, Pearl.
  4. Beatty, Talley.
  5. McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018.
  6. Jones, Bill T.
  7. Reinhart, Charles L.
  8. Nimerichter, Jodee.
  9. Lacy, Madison Davis.
  10. Diggs, Taye.
  11. American Dance Festival.
  12. WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Dancing in the light
  2. Six dances by African-American choreographers
Subject
  1. African American dance
  2. Documentary television programs
  3. Choreographers > United States
  4. Modern dance > United States > History > 20th century
  5. DVD-Video discs
  6. African American dance > History > 20th century
  7. Dance, Black > United States
Genre/Form
  1. Documentary television programs.
  2. DVD-Video discs.
Contents
  1. 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).
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Credits (note)
  1. Editor, Girish Bhargava ; camera, Ed Fussell, Ronnie Smith, Tom Hurwitz.
System details (note)
  1. DVD.