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Festival of American Folklife. Male and female identities in dance [and] Motown lives [videorecording]

Title: Festival of American Folklife. Male and female identities in dance [and] Motown lives [videorecording]
Publication: 1993.

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1 videocassette. 73 min. : sd. color NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Two discussion/demonstrations presented on the American Social Dance program of the Festival of American Folklife.

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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: Male and female identities in dance (approx. 36 min.). Recorded on July 1, 1993. Presenters: Gilka Wara Céspedes, Linley Logan. Signer: Jean Lindquist. Dancers: Robert Shenandoah, Sue Jacobs, Norman Hill, LuAnn Jamieson, Sherri Waterman-Hopper, Magaly Jarrad, Daniela Jarrad, Juan Leonardo Alanes, Maria Teresa Mojica, Luis H. Fuentes. Iroquois and Bolivian dancers compare how sex roles are expressed in dance in their cultures. Includes demonstrations of the Bolivian morenada, cueca, and huayño; and an Iroquois women's dance and stick dance [named for the musical accompaniment rather than a dance prop]. -- Motown lives: The hand dance revival (approx. 37 min.). Recorded on July 1, 1993. Presenter: LeeEllen Friedland. Disc jockeys and dancers: Lawrence Bradford, Kenny Cheeks, Robert "Captain Fly" Frye, Larry Beasley, James "Funk" Thomas, Leroy Green, Cynthia Jefferson, Howard Watkins, Kat [Florence K.] Barber, Luvenia Shelton. Discussion and demonstration of hand dancing, a version of the lindy or jitterbug that was popular in the 1950s and enjoyed a revival beginning in the 1980s.

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*MGZIA 4-1749

OCLC

NYPY946047900-F

Title

Festival of American Folklife. Male and female identities in dance [and] Motown lives [videorecording]

Imprint

1993.

Local Subject

Television. Festival of American Folklife.

Social dancing -- 20th century.

Sex role in dance.

Courting dances.

Local Subject

Hand dancing, African-American.

Added Author

Céspedes, Gilka Wara. Producer

Logan, Linley. Producer

Shenandoah, Robert, dancer.

Jacobs, Sue, dancer.

Hill, Norman B., dancer.

Jamieson, LuAnn, dancer.

Waterman-Hopper, Sherri L., dancer.

Jarrad, Magaly E., dancer.

Jarrad, Daniela, dancer.

Alanes, Juan Leonardo, dancer.

Mojica, Maria Teresa, dancer.

Fuentes, Luis H., dancer.

Friedland, Lee Ellen. Producer

Green, Leroy. Performer

Frye, Robert. Performer

Jefferson, Cynthia. Performer

Thomas, James. Performer

Barber, Florence K. Performer

Beasley, Larry. Performer

Watkins, Howard. Performer

Bradford, Lawrence. Performer

Shelton, Luvenia. Performer

Cheeks, Kenny. Performer

Chen, Vivien. Curator

Lewett, Linda. Producer

Love, Sam.

Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies.

Festival of American Folklife (1993 : Smithsonian Institution)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1749

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