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[An interview with Lavinia Williams]

Title: [An interview with Lavinia Williams] Part 1./ [by James Briggs Murray]
Publication: 7--Sept.--1983.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.		Moving image	By appointment only	Sc Visual VRA-38a	Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Part 4	Moving image	By appointment only	Sc Visual DVD-213 Part 4	Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Part 2	Moving image	By appointment only	Sc Visual DVD-213 Part 2	Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Part 1	Moving image	By appointment only	Sc Visual DVD-213 Part 1	Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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ungc Lavinia Williams oral history collection, with Haitian dance demonstration (CstRLIN)NYPG94-F270.

Description

4 videodiscs (DVD) (92 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

An interview with Lavinia Williams, Part 1, documents Lavinia Williams' childhood and the beginning of her dance career.
Williams' discussion of her early dance career includes an account of the Katherine Dunham Company. Williams tells of her appointment as a student instructor in charge of choreography. She discusses the shows in which the Dunham dancers performed, the difficulties of being an artist, and the beginnings of the civil rights movement. Williams also discusses the film "Stormy Weather" and her USO tour with Nobel Sissel's of revival of "Shuffle Along." Williams briefly comments on her European experience, her return to America, her appointment in "Show Boat" and "Finian's Rainbow," and her meeting and marrying Shannon Yarborough. Part 1 of the the Lavinia Williams interview ends with Williams commenting on her dance school in Brooklyn, teaching at the Dunham School, and the beginnings her Haiti contract negotiations.

Subject

Genre/Form

Interviews.
Oral history.

Note

Forms part of the Lavinia Williams oral history collection, with Haitian dance demonstrations.

Terms of Use (note)

Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography (note)

Lavinia Williams was a dancer and a dance teacher

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-213

OCLC

NYPG94-F261

Title

[An interview with Lavinia Williams] Part 1./ [by James Briggs Murray]

Imprint

7--Sept.--1983.

Local Note

Archival original in Sc Visual VRA-38a

Terms Of Use

Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography

Lavinia Williams was a dancer and a dance teacher She danced leading roles with the Katherine Dunham Company, toured Europe, and was considered a leader in teaching Haitian dance.

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Local Subject

African American dancers.

Added Author

Murray, James Briggs. Interviewer

Yarborough, Lavinia Williams. Interviewee

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Found In:

ungc Lavinia Williams oral history collection, with Haitian dance demonstration (CstRLIN)NYPG94-F270.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-213

Sc Visual VRA-38a [videocassette]

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