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Dance Africa

Title: Dance Africa [videorecording].
Publication: 1985.

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Description

3 videodiscs (NTSC) (146 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

DanceAfrica

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Access (note)

Permission required.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the Dance Africa Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, May 19, 1985.

Funding (note)

This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System Details (note)

DVD.

Contents

Disc 1 (54 min.): A Touch of Folklore and More, performing: Wolosodon-Jondon (Work-in-progress), choreographic interpretations / by Wilhelmina Taylor and the company -- Harvest rebirth : women of the Calabash performing music from the Bena Luluwa of Angola, Yoruba of Nigeria, Giryama and Kikuyu of Kenya, Shona of Zimbabwe, and the Bantu of South Africa.
Disc 2 (30 min.): Calabash Dance Theatre, performing: The celebration / choreographed by Ayanna Frederick and the company ; song by Segun Ojo ; sign language by Abayomi Akowe ; costumes by Lois Soaries -- Mambang / choreographed by Robert Turner ; song, traditional Mankon.
Disc 3 (62 min.): Dinizulu and his African Dancers, Drummers, and Singers, performing: Mmean (Royal court dance) / choreographed by Kwesi Mantey -- Thumb piano -- Kete (Ashanti King's court dance) / choreographed by Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu ; lighting by Yao Odum Opare ; narration by Amadoma Bediako -- Sabar ak Ru Afriq, The Drum and Spirit of Africa Society / performing choreography by Andara Rahman, Ebunmiye Babanaju, Mamadi Keita, Makeda Webster ; costumes by Andara Rahman, Mamadi Keita, Obara Wali Rahman, the members of Sara Sequioa.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-687

OCLC

NYPY867019094-F

Title

Dance Africa [videorecording].

Imprint

1985.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Dance Africa Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, May 19, 1985.

Restricted Access

Permission required.

Funding

This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System Details

DVD.

Local Note

Former classmark: *MGZIC 9-975.

Added Author

Taylor, Wilhelmina, choreographer.

Frederick, Ayanna, choreographer.

Turner, Robert, choreographer.

Mantey, Kwesi, choreographer.

Dinizulu, Gus, 1930-1991, choreographer.

Rahman, Andara, choreographer. Costume designer

Babanaju, Ebunmiye, choreographer.

Keïta, Mamady, choreographer. Costume designer

Webster, Makeda, choreographer.

Ojo, Segun. Composer

Soaries, Lois. Costume designer

Pare, Yao Odum. Lighting designer

Bediako, Amadona. Narrator

Rahman, Obara Wali. Costume designer

Akowe, Abayomi.

Touch of Folklore and More (Dance company)

Calabash Dance Company.

Dinizulu Dancers and Singers (Company)

Sabar ak Ru Afriq (Dance company)

Brooklyn Academy of Music.

DanceAfrica (Festival)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-687

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