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Echoes of Africa
- Title
- Echoes of Africa [videorecording] / choreography by Jean Léon Destiné.
- Publication
- 1979.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIA 4-4944 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIA 4-4944 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 videocassettes (90 min.) : sd., b&w NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Event (note)
- Taped in performance as part of the Riverside Dance Festival in November 1979, at Riverside Church, New York, N.Y.
- Contents
- On the plantations/divertissement / performed by Destiné and the company -- Baptism of the drum / performed by Melvada Hughes with Louinis, Sterlin and Walrond -- Fetiche / performed by Destiné -- Yoruba bakas / headpieces by George Mills ; performed by Walrond, Sterlin, and Louinis -- African suite / costumes, Walrond. Konkoba dance: Choreography and solo dancer: Louinis. Mask dance from the Ivory Coast: Choreography and solo dancer: Walrond -- Witch doctor / performed by Marianne Marvellia, Destiné, and the company -- Caribbean bambouche: Contredance, Steel drum, Rara/mazonne, Carnaval, and Banda / performed by the company -- Brazilero / performed by Carolyn Webb, Walrond, and ensemble -- Drum conversation / performed by drummer Alphonse Cimber -- The chosen one / performed by Judith Samuel, Louinis, and Destiné with the company.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-4944
- OCLC
- NYPY827014541-F
- Title
- Echoes of Africa [videorecording] / choreography by Jean Léon Destiné.
- Imprint
- 1979.
- Event
- Taped in performance as part of the Riverside Dance Festival in November 1979, at Riverside Church, New York, N.Y.
- Performer
- Performed by Jean Léon Destiné and members of the Afro-Haitian Dance Company: Ajaibo Walrond, Marianne Marvellia, Louines Louinis, Benjamin Sterlin, Melvada Hughes, Carolyn Clemons, Una Satchell, Lynotte Pyettel, Morris drummers Alphonse Cimber, Louis Celestin, and Jacques Succes ; singers/percussionists Jean Alphonse and René Calvin ; and flutist Aluption Cadet.
- Local Subject
- Television. Echoes of Africa.
- Local Subject
- Afro-Caribbean dancing.Voodoo dancing.Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- West Indies.
- Added Author
- Hughes, Melvada, dancer.Louinis, Louines, dancer.Walrond, Ajaibo, choreographer, dancer.Marvellia, Marianne, dancer.Webb, Carolyn (Carolyn Jeannette), dancer.Samuel, Judith, dancer.Destiné, Jean Léon, choreographer, dancer.Afro-Haitian Dance Company.Riverside Dance Festival.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-4944