Research Catalog

Title

Lost in the shuffle [videorecording] : an evening of jazz tap dancing.

Publication

1978.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Goldberg, Jane, 1948-
• Cook, Charles, 1917-1991
• Gaines, Bubba
• Levine, Andrea
• Diamond, Dennis.
• American Dance Festival.
• DHCA.

Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (83 min.) : sd., b&w; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Jane Goldberg/Changing Times Tap Dancing Company Collection.

Alternative Title

Evening of jazz tap dancing

Subjects

• Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
• Nugent, Pete
• Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992
• Tap dancing
• Video
• Dance

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Original container of cassette 1 labeled “A tapper’s tape.”
• Audio begins before visual on disc 1.
• Many of the numbers are orally introduced by the dancers.

Credits (note)

• Project director, Dennis Diamond; cameraman/coordinator, Bohdan Kukil.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in performance at Page Auditorium, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, on June 22, 1978, during the American Dance Festival, as part of the American Dance Festival Archival Project.

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 (ca. 61 min.): Dancing in the dark and The tapper's tapes / performed by Goldberg -- What it's about / performed by Gaines and Cook ; includes a demonstration of time steps; a trio by Cook, Goldberg, and Gaines; three duets by Gaines and Cook, among them "Swanee river" and "I remember April and you," performed while seated in chairs; the solo "It can happen to you," by Cook; and two solos by Gaines -- The tradition passes on / performed by Cook and Goldberg ; includes "Old man Time," "Let's be buddies," "Jitterbug waltz," "Breezin' along" (dedicated to Pete Nugent), and "Bambalina" -- "It's about time" / choreographed and performed by Goldberg and Levine -- "Cute," "Love for sale," and Tap and drum duet / danced by Levine, with drumming by Braun. -- "I remember Hanya" (dedicated to Hanya Holm) / danced by Cook. -- Bubba Gaines returns: "Night and day" / danced by Gaines.
• Disc 2 (ca. 22 min.): Bubba Gaines returns (cont.), including two skipping rope dances -- "Doing the new lowdown" (dedicated to Bill Robinson) / danced by Cook and Goldberg -- Finale: "If you can walk, you can dance," "It was in a little Spanish town," and "Shim sham shimmy" / danced by Cook, Gaines, Goldberg, and Levine.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2542

OCLC

NYPY906052408-F

Title

Lost in the shuffle [videorecording] : an evening of jazz tap dancing.

Imprint

1978.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Credits

Project director, Dennis Diamond; cameraman/coordinator, Bohdan Kukil.

Performer

Performed by Charles "Cookie" Cook, Leslie "Bubba" Gaines, Jane Goldberg, and Andrea Levine.

Music performed by Jim Roberts (pianist) and Chris Braun (drummer).

Event

Videotaped in performance at Page Auditorium, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, on June 22, 1978, during the American Dance Festival, as part of the American Dance Festival Archival Project.

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 9-2202.

Added Author

Goldberg, Jane, 1948- , dancer.

Cook, Charles, 1917-1991, dancer.

Gaines, Bubba, dancer.

Levine, Andrea, dancer.

Diamond, Dennis. Videographer

American Dance Festival.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2542