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Title The American Dance Festival's dancing in the light : six dances by African-American choreographers / a production of the American Dance Festival in association with Thirteen/WNET New York ; producer, Jodee Nimerichter ; director and writer, Madison Davis Lacy.

Publication Info. West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 792.8 AM35    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; Dolby Digital, NTSC.
Performer Narrator, Taye Diggs.
Credits Editor, Girish Bhargava ; camera, Ed Fussell, Ronnie Smith, Tom Hurwitz.
Summary 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.
Audience Not rated.
Contents Awassa astrige/Ostrich 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).
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject African American dance.
African American dance -- History -- 20th century.
Modern dance -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Choreographers -- United States.
Dance, Black -- United States.
Genre/Form Documentary television programs.
Dance -- Performance.
Added Author Dafora, Asadata, 1890-1965.
Dunham, Katherine.
Primus, Pearl.
Beatty, Talley.
McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018
Jones, Bill T.
Reinhart, Charles L.
Nimerichter, Jodee.
Lacy, Madison Davis.
Diggs, Taye.
American Dance Festival.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Added Title Dancing in the light
Six dances by African-American choreographers
ISBN 9780769785202
0769785204
Standard No. 032031425194
Music No. D4251 Kultur
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