Research Catalog

Title

Festival of American Folklife. Iroquois dances [and] Dancing through the generations [videorecording]

Publication

1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Logan, Linley.
• Shenandoah, Robert
• Jacobs, Sue
• Hill, Norman B.
• Jamieson, LuAnn
• Waterman-Hopper, Sherri L.
• Bonaparte, Brad
• Buck, Sadie
• Logan, Scott
• McDonald, J. Michael
• Shenandoah, Keith
• Sokhon, Nareine
• Sokhon, Soum
• Sokhon, Sareth C.
• Chen, Vivien.
• Love, Sam.
• Lewett, Linda.
• Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies.
• Festival of American Folklife (1993 : Smithsonian Institution)

Description

1 videocassette. 102 min. : sd. color NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Demonstration with audience participation, and discussion/demonstration presented on the American Social Dance program of the Festival of American Folklife.

Donor/Sponsor

• nea
• nys

Subject

• Robin dance (Dance)
• Standing quiver (Dance)
• Ram vong (Dance)
• Iroquois dance
• 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: Iroquois dances (approx. 63 min.). Recorded on July 3, 1993. Presenter: Linley Logan. Dancers/drummers/singers: Brad Bonaparte, Sadie Buck, Norman Hill, Sue Jacobs, LuAnn Jamieson, Scott Logan, Mike McDonald, Robert Shenandoah, Keith Shenandoah, Sherri Waterman-Hopper. Instruction in various Iroquois social dances, including the standing quiver dance, round dance, rabbit dance, askanye (new women's shuffle dance), robin dance, and duck dance. The presenter provides a running commentary on the dances. -- Dancing through the generations (approx. 39 min.). Recorded on July 5, 1993. Presenter: Vivien Chen. [Panelists]/dancers: Robert Shenandoah, LuAnn Jamieson, Nareine Sokhon, Soum Sokhon. Additional dancers: Sue Jacobs, Sherri Waterman-Hopper, Keith Shenandoah, Sareth Sokhon. Discussion of how dances are transmitted through the generations, and the changes that occur with new generations. Demonstration of the Iroquois women's shuffle dance and rabbit dance, and the Cambodian ram vong.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1760

OCLC

NYPY946049601-F

Title

Festival of American Folklife. Iroquois dances [and] Dancing through the generations [videorecording]

Imprint

1993.

Local Subject

Television. Festival of American Folklife.

Social dancing -- 20th century.

Rabbit dances -- Iroquois Indians.

Duck dances -- Iroquois.

Askanye.

Local Subject

Courting dances.

Added Author

Logan, Linley. Producer

Shenandoah, Robert, dancer.

Jacobs, Sue, dancer.

Hill, Norman B., dancer.

Jamieson, LuAnn, dancer.

Waterman-Hopper, Sherri L., dancer.

Bonaparte, Brad, dancer.

Buck, Sadie, dancer.

Logan, Scott, dancer.

McDonald, J. Michael, dancer.

Shenandoah, Keith, dancer.

Sokhon, Nareine, dancer.

Sokhon, Soum, dancer.

Sokhon, Sareth C., dancer.

Chen, Vivien. Curator. Producer

Love, Sam.

Lewett, Linda. Producer

Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies.

Festival of American Folklife (1993 : Smithsonian Institution)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1760