Research Catalog

Title

Dance in Africa [videorecording] : the first World Festival of Negro Arts / produced by Gallery Amrad ; filmed by Esther A. Dagan.

Publication

Montreal, Québec, Canada: Galerie Amrad African Art Publications, c1987.

Details

Additional Authors

• Dagan, Esther A., 1931-
• Rappaport, Jerrold.
• Galerie Amrad art africain.
• World Festival of Negro Arts. (Dakar, Senegal)
• DHCA.

Description

• 1 streaming video file (52 min., 30 sec.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
• 1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (53 min.) : sd., col. ;

Summary

Excerpts of dances from thirteen West African countries, including many different ethnic groups. Types of dances include initiation, courting, marriage, fertility, and funeral dances; mask, acrobatic, stick, sword, and animal dances. The tape concludes with footage, filmed on location in Senegal, of the annual lion festival of the Wolof people.

Subject

• Dance > Africa, West
• Dance > Senegal
• Dance > Gambia
• Dance > Sierra Leone
• Dance > Côte d'Ivoire
• Dance > Ghana
• Dance > Togo
• Dance > Benin
• Dance > Nigeria
• Dance > Cameroon
• Dance > Gabon
• Dance > Zambia
• Dance > Burundi
• Dance > Niger

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.
• Anthropological films and programs.
• Special event coverage and commentary.

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

• Edited and narrated by Jerrold Rappaport.

Event (note)

• Filmed in performance in Dakar, Senegal, in April 1966.

Contents

• Countries represented, in order of appearance: Senegal (Casamance region) -- Gambia -- Sierra Leone (Mende and Sherbro people) -- Ivory Coast (Dan and Senufo people) -- Ghana (Ashanti) -- Togo (Kabre, Bassari, and Ewe [?]) -- Benin (Yoruba and others) -- Nigeria (Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa) -- Cameroon (Bamun and others) -- Gabon (Fang and others) -- Zambia -- Burundi (Watusi and others) -- Niger (Bororo and others).
• Lion festival of the Wolof people of Senegal, filmed on location.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 9117

OCLC

NYPY95-F646

Title

Dance in Africa [videorecording] : the first World Festival of Negro Arts / produced by Gallery Amrad ; filmed by Esther A. Dagan.

Imprint

Montreal, Québec, Canada: Galerie Amrad African Art Publications, c1987.

Country of Producing Entity

Canada.

Credits

Edited and narrated by Jerrold Rappaport.

Event

Filmed in performance in Dakar, Senegal, in April 1966.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-4395.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Dance -- Africa -- Wolof.

Mask dances.

Acrobatic dancing.

Stick dances.

Initiation dances.

Courting dances.

Fertility dances.

Funeral dances.

Animal dances.

Added Author

Dagan, Esther A., 1931- Cinematographer

Rappaport, Jerrold. Editor. Narrator

Galerie Amrad art africain.

World Festival of Negro Arts. (Dakar, Senegal)

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 9117