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Festival of American Folklife. Opening ceremony [and] Popular dances of the '50s and '60s [and] Hand dancing memories from the '50s and '60s [videorecording]

Title
Festival of American Folklife. Opening ceremony [and] Popular dances of the '50s and '60s [and] Hand dancing memories from the '50s and '60s [videorecording]
Publication
1993.

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Moving imageUse in library *MGZIA 4-1747Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
  • Chen, Vivien.
  • Lewett, Linda.
  • Love, Sam.
  • Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies.
Description
1 videocassette. 117 min. : sd. color NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Opening ceremony and two discussion/demonstrations presented on the American Social Dance program of the Festival of American Folklife.
Donor/Sponsor
  • nea
  • nys
Subject
  • Friedland, Lee Ellen
  • Green, Leroy
  • Jefferson, Cynthia
  • Eley, William H
  • Sokhon, Soum
  • Ware, Lee
  • Robinson, Addie
  • Barber, Florence K
  • Watkins, Howard
  • Clark, Jeannine Smith, 1928-
  • Kurin, Richard, 1950-
  • Newman, Constance Ernestine Berry, 1935-
  • Kriegsman, Sali Ann
  • Bradford, Lawrence
  • Shelton, Luvenia
  • Sokhon, Sareth C
  • Tek, Sody T
  • Kheav, Vuthy
  • Chhuan, Natalie
  • Kheav, John
  • Cheeks, Kenny
  • Shelton, Cynthia
  • Gospel Pearls (Musical group)
  • Alegres del Norte (Musical group)
  • Festival of American Folklife (1993 : Smithsonian Institution)
  • Madison (Dance)
  • Cha-cha (Dance)
  • Lindy (Dance)
  • Jitterbug (Dance)
  • Line dancing
  • Dance > Cambodia
Note
  • Videotaped in performance for the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image and the Smithsonian Institution by Sam Love of the Public Production Group, with the assistance of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, at the 27th annual Festival of American Folklife on the National Mall in Washington, D. C., on July 1-5, 1993. [Video] producer: Linda Lewett. Festival presented by the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies of the Smithsonian Institution. Director, Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies: Richard Kurin. Festival director: Diana Parker. Curator, American Social Dance program: Vivien Ta-Ying Chen.
Contents
  • CONTENTS: Opening ceremony (approx. 60 min.). Recorded on July 1, 1993. Musical performances by the Gospel Pearls and Los Alegres del Norte. Speeches by Jeannine Smith Clark, Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution; James Early, Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service, Smithsonian Institution; Constance Berry Newman, Under Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Bob Armstrong, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior; Ambassador Jorge Montano, Mexico; Ronald Coleman, Congressman, Texas; Pamela Holt, Executive Director, District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities; Marilyn Tyler Brown, Associate Superintendent, District of Columbia Public Schools; Sali Ann Kriegsman, Director, Dance Program, National Endowment for the Arts; Richard Kurin, Director, Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies. -- Popular dances of the '50s and '60s (approx. 37 min.). Recorded on July 1, 1993. Presenter: LeeEllen Friedland. Hand dancers: Leroy Green, William H. Eley, Lawrence Bradford, Florence K. [Kat] Barber, Cynthia Jefferson, Lee Ware, Howard Watkins, Luvenia Shelton. Cambodian dancers: Sareth C. Sokhon, Soum Sokhon, Sody T. Tek, Vuthy Kheav, Natalie Chhuan, John Kheav. Discussion and demonstration of the madison and the cha-cha-cha (performed as a line dance). -- Hand dancing memories from the '50s and '60s (approx. 20 min.). Recorded on July 1, 1993. Presenter: Friedland. Hand dancers: Eley
  • Ware, Barber, Watkins, Kenny Cheeks, Jefferson, Addie Robinson, Green, Luvenia Shelton, Bradford, Cynthia Shelton. Discussion and demonstration of hand dancing, a version of the lindy named after the "almost constant hand holding and turning between partners" (Friedland).
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-1747
OCLC
NYPY946047518-F
Title
Festival of American Folklife. Opening ceremony [and] Popular dances of the '50s and '60s [and] Hand dancing memories from the '50s and '60s [videorecording]
Imprint
1993.
Local Subject
Television. Festival of American Folklife.
Social dancing -- 20th century.
Hand dancing, African-American.
Added Author
Chen, Vivien.
Lewett, Linda.
Love, Sam.
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-1747
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