Research Catalog

Title

"Goin' ta work!" [videorecording] : club dancing in New York City

Publication

1994.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Sommer, Sally R.
• Moon, Asia.
• Burnett, Archie.
• LaFortune, Brahms.
• Ninja, Willi.
• Marx, Robert.
• Rudolph, Ellen B.
• Schwartz, Michael.
• Speaking out (1994 : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)

Description

2 videocassettes (U-matic, NTSC) (96 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Summary

Symposium on club dancing in New York in the 1990s, covering hip-hop, freestyling, voguing, and lofting.

Subjects

• Television > "Goin' ta work!"
• Panel discussions
• Discotheques
• Male dancing
• Voguing (Dance)
• Hip-hop
• Social dancing > 20th century
• Lofting (Dance)
• Disco dancing
• Nightclubs > United States

Genre/Form

Panel discussions.

Note

• Videotaped at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on April 7, 1994. Presented as part of Speaking out: the performing arts forum. Series producer: Ellen B. Rudolph.
• Moderator: Sally Sommer. Panelists: Asia Moon, Archie Burnett, Brahms "Bravo" LaFortune, and Willi Ninja.

Contents

CONTENTS: Cassette 1 (approx. 54 min.): Welcome by Robert Marx, executive director of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. -- Dance demonstration by Moon, Burnett, LaFortune, and Ninja. -- Panel discussion. Each dancer discusses his/her motivations for dancing and the needs it fulfills, sources of movement ideas, and experiences of the club scene. Ninja also gives a history of voguing. -- Cassette 2 (approx. 42 min.): Video by Michael Schwartz of Character Generators/Video, created with Sally Sommer as part of a project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts' Dance Heritage Initiative. Introduced by Sommer. All movement in the video is improvised. -- Question and answer period. Topics include the male domination of club dancing, the club scene abroad, warming up for club dancing, learning club dancing, lofting, house music, and the competitive element in club dancing.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-4207

OCLC

NYPY946074072-F

Title

"Goin' ta work!" [videorecording] : club dancing in New York City

Imprint

1994.

Local Subject

Lofting (Dance)

Nightclubs -- United States.

Local Subject

Social dancing -- 20th century.

Television. "Goin' ta work!"

Male dancing.

Added Author

Sommer, Sally R. Moderator. Commentator

Moon, Asia. cmm, dancer.

Burnett, Archie. cmm, dancer.

LaFortune, Brahms. cmm, dancer.

Ninja, Willi. cmm, dancer.

Marx, Robert. Commentator

Rudolph, Ellen B., producer.

Schwartz, Michael. Videographer

Speaking out (1994 : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-4207