Research Catalog

Title

Like it is [and] Katherine Dunham: Excerpts [electronic resource]

Publication

1979.

Details

Additional Authors

• Dunham, Katherine.
• Noble, Gil.
• Mitchell, Arthur, 1934-
• Katherine Dunham Company.

Description

1 streaming video file (NTSC) (60 min.) : sd. with si. sequences, col.or b&w

Subjects

• Television > Like it is
• Interviews
• Dance > Anthropological aspects
• Dance > West Indies
• Television > Katherine Dunham
• Dance, Black > Cuba
• Modern dance > Technique > Dunham
• Dance > French Polynesia > Tahiti
• Dunham, Katherine
• Dance > Haiti
• Ritual and ceremonial dancing > Haiti
• Dance, Black > Haiti
• Folk dancing > Haiti

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Note

• Television documentary on Katherine Dunham (55 min) followed by Katherine Dunham: Excerpts, a short series of silent films from a performance of Katherine Dunham and her company (5 min.).

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding (note)

• Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Source (note)

• David Hahn.

Contents

CONTENTS. - Like it is. sd., color. WABC-TV telecast, 1979. Producer and host: Gil Noble. Director: Frank Olivo. Sections includes: Introduction (0-200); Interview with Katherine Dunham discussing her life and career (200-426); Interview with Olatunji, Nigerian percussionist (426-431); Dunham interview (431-458); Interview with Arthur Mitchell on Dunham's classes and impact (458-481); Dunham interview (481-537); Mitchell interview (537-548); Dunham interview (537-807). Dunham discusses her training and education; her interest in Haitian dancing; her years in Haiti: the impact of religion and voodoo on their culture and dance. Many excerpts of native dancers in Haiti and the West Indies are shown. - Katherine Dunham: Excerpts. si., b&w., 1940(?). Filmed by Kenneth Persip. Performance by Katherine Dunham and Company (807-856).

Call Number

*MGZIDF 8706

OCLC

NYPY817023233-F

Title

Like it is [and] Katherine Dunham: Excerpts [electronic resource]

Imprint

1979.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-201.

Source

Gift; David Hahn. NN-PD

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Television. Like it is.

Television. Katherine Dunham.

Local Subject

Modern dance -- Technique -- Dunham.

Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Haiti.

Added Author

Dunham, Katherine. ive, choreographer.

Noble, Gil. Producer. Host

Mitchell, Arthur, 1934- Interviewee

Katherine Dunham Company.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 8706

*MGZIC 9-201 (former)