| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 79 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by First Run Features in 2006. |
| Summary |
Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder, two living legends in the world of American dance, are the subjects of this intimate and revealing documentary. Carmen achieved notoriety in the early 1950s, as a lead dancer of incomparable beauty and grace with Alvin Ailey's American Dance Theater. Geoffrey, large in life and an elemental force on stage, found fame not only as a dancer but also as an actor (Live and Let Die), soda spokesman ("the Un-Colaaaaa...") and theater director (The Wiz). He and Carmen met in 1954 and married a year later. Filmed over several years in the United States, Trinidad and Paris, this exquisite documentary features candid interviews and glorious dance performances, with legends like Alvin Ailey, Herbert Ross, Lester Horton, Joe Layton, Duke Ellington and Josephine Baker, demonstrating the amazing talent and uninterrupted creativity of these icons of dance. System requirements: Adobe Flash Player. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931-
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Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014.
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African American dancers -- United States -- Biography.
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Dancers -- Documentary.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Doob, Nick, film director.
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Atkinson, Linda, film director.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1137527 Kanopy |
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