Research Catalog

Title

[Alvin Ailey memorial, WCBS-TV] [videorecording].

Publication

1989.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Ailey, Alvin
• Allen, Sarita
• Faison, George, 1945-
• Ailey, Alvin
• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Description

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

Summary

News report on the special opening night performance, dedicated to the memory of Alvin Ailey, of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center, New York, on Dec. 6, 1989. Includes brief glimpses of Harry Belafonte; David Dinkins, then mayor-elect of New York City; Roberta Flack; and Lula Cooper, Ailey's mother; as well as excerpts from Ailey's Revelations. Sarita Allen and George Faison offer remembrances of Ailey, who is seen in an interview taped in 1984.

Subject

Ailey, Alvin

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Event (note)

• Telecast on Dec. 6, 1989, by WCBS-TV, New York.

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.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-810

OCLC

NYPY906042457-F

Title

[Alvin Ailey memorial, WCBS-TV] [videorecording].

Imprint

1989.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Performer

Reporter, Lisa Rudolph.

Event

Telecast on Dec. 6, 1989, by WCBS-TV, New York.

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 9-2146.

Added Author

Ailey, Alvin, choreographer. Interviewee

Allen, Sarita. Speaker

Faison, George, 1945- speaker.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Ailey, Alvin. Revelations

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-810