Research Catalog

Title

The spirit moves [Volume 2, part I] [videorecording]

Publication

[1950-75]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brown, Teddy
• Strohman, Scoby
• Dehn, Mura, 1902-1987.
• Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984.

Description

1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (40 min.) : sd., b&w; 3/4 in.

Summary

Part of a survey of 100 years of social dance created by Black Americans.

Subject

• Jazz dance
• Mambo (Dance)
• Dance, Black > United States

Note

• Subtitle: Postwar era, 1950-1975.
• Filmed at the Savoy Ballroom and other ballrooms of Harlem in New York City.
• Producer, director, and dance editor: Mura Dehn. Photography: Herbert Matter, John Cohn, and Joey Eysman.

Credits (note)

• Photography, Herbert Matter, John Cohn and Joey Eysman.

Event (note)

• Filmed at the Savoy Ballroom and other ballrooms of Harlem in New York City.

Contents

Flying home--Harlem style, performed by Teddy Brown with Sugar Sullivan -- Bebop time: solo concert dance improvisations performed by Jeff Asquiew, Leroy Appins, (Oaky) Milton Hayse, and (Scoby) Clarence Strohman -- Mambo. Applejack challenge. Danced by general public at P.S. 28 -- Bebop avant-garde, at Chateau Gardens grand ball -- Mambo. Performed by dancers of the Palladium Ballroom: Tandaleo and Jackie, Dottie Adams, A. Vasquez, Teddy Brown, Cuban Pete, and Millie Donni.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-743 cassette 3

OCLC

• 33321858
• NYPY857030832-F

Title

The spirit moves [Volume 2, part I] [videorecording]

Imprint

[1950-75]

Credits

Photography, Herbert Matter, John Cohn and Joey Eysman.

Event

Filmed at the Savoy Ballroom and other ballrooms of Harlem in New York City.

Local Subject

Motion pictures. The spirit moves.

Local Subject

Social dancing -- 20th century.

Bebop dancing.

Added Author

Brown, Teddy, dancer.

Strohman, Scoby, dancer.

Dehn, Mura, 1902-1987. Producer. Director. Narrator

Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984. Cinematographer

Other Form:

Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Cataloged Dance Original Media : The spirit moves [Volume 2, part I] 1 electronic resource (40 min., 43 sec.) sd., b&w (SPEC AMI ID)339430

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-743 cassette 3

*MGZHB 16-1768 reel 3 Additional copy ; 1 film reel (1414 ft.) 16 mm. This print is stored for preservation and not available for viewing. Use *MGZIC 9-743 instead.