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Divine drumbeats Katherine Dunham and her people

Title: Divine drumbeats [videorecording] : Katherine Dunham and her people / WNET/Thirteen ; directed by Merrill Brockway ; produced by Merrill Brockway and Catherine Tatge.
Publication: New York, N.Y. : WNET, 1980.

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Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (60 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of WNET/13, New York.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Interviews.

Credits (note)

Lighting and art director, Ralph Holmes; writer: Glenn Berenbeim.

Performer (note)

Narrator: James Earl Jones.

Event (note)

Telecast on WNET-TV's Dance in America series on April 16, 1980. Filmed on location in Haiti and Nashville.

System Details (note)

DVD, transferred from Digital Betacam cassette.

Contents

Portions of a traditional Haitian Vaudon (Voodoo) ceremony presented at various points in the program -- Katherine Dunham interviewed about her life and work -- Film footage from Carnival of rhythm (1939) and from several 1940's films, including Stormy weather -- Haitian history and culture, as they relate to dance, briefly discussed and illustrated with film clips of the country and people -- Taped sequences of classes at Southern Illinois University's Performing Arts Training Center in East Saint Louis -- Rites de passage / choreography, Katherine Dunham; music, Paquita Anderson, Georges Auric, and Katherine Dunham; costumes, John Pratt; performed by members of the Dunham Company: Part 1, Fertility, danced by Norman Davis (the young man), Doris Bennett (the young woman), Pearl Reynolds (the matriarch); Part 2, Puberty, danced by Emilio Lastarria (the boy initiate), Vanoye Aikens (the warrior chief); Part 3, Death, danced by Glory van Scott (the queen), Vanoye Aikens (the consort), John Jones (the herald), Ed Brown (the witch doctor), Emilio Lastarria (Death); with Barbara Wright Craig, Lesa Huston, Perry Moore, Andrea Smythe, Lynn Sterling, Charles La Vont Williams, and Camille Yarbrough.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5480

OCLC

NYPY807046986-F

Title

Divine drumbeats [videorecording] : Katherine Dunham and her people / WNET/Thirteen ; directed by Merrill Brockway ; produced by Merrill Brockway and Catherine Tatge.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : WNET, 1980.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD, transferred from Digital Betacam cassette.

Event

Telecast on WNET-TV's Dance in America series on April 16, 1980. Filmed on location in Haiti and Nashville.

Credits

Lighting and art director, Ralph Holmes; writer: Glenn Berenbeim.

Performer

Narrator: James Earl Jones.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-155.

Local Subject

Television. Dance in America.

Television. Divine drumbeats: Katherine Dunham.

Television. Rites de passage.

Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Haiti.

Local Subject

Voodoo dancing.

Added Author

Dunham, Katherine, choreographer, dancer. Interviewee

Jones, James Earl, narrator.

Davis, Norman, dancer.

Bennett, Doris, dancer.

Reynolds, Pearl, dancer.

Lastarria, Emilio, dancer.

Aikens, Vanoye, dancer.

Van Scott, Glory, dancer.

Brown, Ed, dancer.

Jones, John, 1937- dancer.

Anderson, Paquita. Composer

Auric, Georges, 1899-1983. Composer

Pratt, John, 1912?-1986. Designer

Brockway, Merrill. Director

Brockway, Merrill. Producer

Tatge, Catherine. Producer

Berenbeim, Glenn. Author

Holmes, Ralph, set designer.

Holmes, Ralph, lighting designer.

Katherine Dunham Company.

Southern Illinois University (East Saint Louis). Performing Arts Training Center.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5480

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