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To be a dancing body

Title
To be a dancing body [videorecording] / produced by Anne Sigler.
Publication
United States : Sacred Arts Video Production, c1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Mansfield, Michael.
  • Adams, Doug.
  • Winton-Henry, Cynthia.
  • Porter, Phil.
  • De Sola, Carla.
  • Donaldson, Beth.
  • Sigler, Anne.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 videocassette (49 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Guidance for the professional and the layperson on incorporating dance into religious worship. The interviewees, who include a child choreographer and a blind dancer, discuss different types of religious dance and the occasions on which it may be performed, the church's traditional attitudes towards the body and how they may be reconciled with dancing, the special qualities and goals of religious dance, choreographic sources (among them ethnic dance and improvisation), and dance for different members of the congregation, including children and the physically challenged.
Subjects
Performer (note)
  • Narrator: George Muedeking.
  • Interviewees: Michael Mansfield, Doug Adams, Conor Copeland, Cynthia Winton-Henry, Phil Porter, Lisa Largess, Carla DeSola, and Beth Donaldson.
Contents
Ways to use dance in worship and community life -- Fly to God? With this body? -- Putting it together.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-2063
OCLC
NYPY95-F197
Title
To be a dancing body [videorecording] / produced by Anne Sigler.
Imprint
United States : Sacred Arts Video Production, c1989.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Performer
Narrator: George Muedeking.
Interviewees: Michael Mansfield, Doug Adams, Conor Copeland, Cynthia Winton-Henry, Phil Porter, Lisa Largess, Carla DeSola, and Beth Donaldson.
Local Subject
Religious dance.
Religious dance -- United States.
Child dancers.
Child choreographers.
Dance for the blind.
Added Author
Mansfield, Michael. Interviewee
Adams, Doug. Interviewee
Winton-Henry, Cynthia. Interviewee
Porter, Phil. Interviewee
De Sola, Carla. Interviewee
Donaldson, Beth. Interviewee
Sigler, Anne. Producer
DHCA.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-2063
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