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Ethnic dance: roundtrip to Trinidad

Title
Ethnic dance: roundtrip to Trinidad [videorecording]
Publication
[1959]

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Additional Authors
  • Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014
  • De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931-
  • Myers, Martha.
  • Venza, Jac.
  • Geoffrey Holder and Company.
Description
1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (30 min.) : sd., b&w.; 3/4 in.
Summary
Geoffrey Holder discusses the significance of ethnic dance in the field of formal dance. He, Carmen de Lavallade and Julius Fields, Thelma Hill, Miriam Port, and Charles Saint-Amant perform Bele, a West Indian minuet, the voodoo dance Yanvalou, and Banda from the musical comedy House of flowers, in which Holder appears as Baron Samedi, Haitian god of Life and Death.
Series Statement
Time to dance ; no. 8
Uniform Title
Bele (Choreographic work : Holder)
Subject
Dance > Trinidad and Tobago
Note
  • Produced by WGBH-TV, Boston, for National Educational Television. Conceived and written by Martha Myers. Producer: Jac Venza. Director: Greg Harney.
  • Guests: Geoffrey Holder and Co., with Carmen de Lavallade.
Call Number
*MGZIC 9-775
OCLC
NYPY737042298-F
Title
Ethnic dance: roundtrip to Trinidad [videorecording]
Imprint
[1959]
Series
Time to dance ; no. 8
Local Subject
Television. Ethnic dance: Round-trip to Trinidad.
Musical comedies. House of flowers.
Voodoo dancing.
Added Author
Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014, choreographer.
Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014, dancer.
De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931- dancer.
Myers, Martha. Author
Venza, Jac. Producer
Geoffrey Holder and Company.
Added Title
Bele (Choreographic work : Holder)
Research Call Number
*MGZIC 9-775
*MGZHB 12-666 Another copy; 16 mm. 1 reel.
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