Research Catalog

Title

DanceAfrica '97, 20th anniversary celebration [videorecording] : recovering our legacy / artistic direction by Chuck Davis.

Publication

1997.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Meyers, Lou.
• Bey, La Rocque
• Davis, Chuck, 1937-
• Grant, William H., III
• La Rocque Bey Dance Company.
• PAKA Dance Theater Company.
• Nile Ethiopian Ensemble.
• Sabar ak Ru Afriq (Dance company)
• Brooklyn Academy of Music.
• DanceAfrica (Festival)
• DHCA.

Description

2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Alternative Title

• Recovering our legacy
• Dance Africa '97

Subject

• Drummers (Musicians)
• Dance > Guinea
• Dance > Africa, West
• Dance > Ethiopia
• Tap dancing
• Lebou (African people) > Dances
• Dance, Black
• Dance, Black > West Indies
• Child dancers

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.
• Black films and programs.

Note

• Presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music.
• Accompanied by house program.

Access (note)

• Permission required.

Credits (note)

• Lighting, William H. Grant III.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, New York, on May 24, 1997 (8PM), by Nick of Time Productions of White Plains, N.Y.

Funding (note)

• This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Contents

• Disc 1 (ca. 60 min.): [Welcome] / by Lou Myers -- Memorial -- Processional -- [Dances] / performed by La Rocque Bey Dance Company ; collage of African and African-American works inspired by the late La Rocque Bey, including: Tap/drum interlude, Funga (Welcome dance), drummers [instrumental work], Kou kou (social celebration song from Guinea), Dunumba (men's dance), Sorsornet (social dance from Guinea), Manjani (from Mali, Guinea, Senegal), VooDoo -- [Dances] / performed by PAKA (Passing Ancestral Knowledge Along) Dance Company ; includes Spider dance, Yonvalu (in honor of Dumbala the snake god), Petro, Congo day.
• Disc 2 (ca. 56 min.): [Dances and instrumental music] / performed by the Nile Ethiopian Ensemble ; includes Guarge (a dance based on the movements of harvesting and preparing kocho, or the false banana plant), Oromo dance (a display dance performed by young warriors in monkey-skin headdresses), and Gondar dance (dance imitating bird and chicken movements, performed to love songs) -- The healing, Ndepp ceremony / performed by Sabar ak Ru Afriq ; healing ritual of the Lebou people of the Senegambia region of West Africa -- Grand finale / featuring all of the evening's performers.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-773

OCLC

NYPY98-F2829

Title

DanceAfrica '97, 20th anniversary celebration [videorecording] : recovering our legacy / artistic direction by Chuck Davis.

Imprint

1997.

Country of Producing Entity

United States

Performer

Griot, Lou Myers.

Credits

Lighting, William H. Grant III.

Event

Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, New York, on May 24, 1997 (8PM), by Nick of Time Productions of White Plains, N.Y.

Restricted Access

Permission required.

Funding

This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System Details

DVD.

Local Note

Former classmark: *MGZIC 9-4509.

Local Subject

Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- West Indies.

Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Africa, West.

Local Subject

Bird dances.

Medicine dances.

Added Author

Meyers, Lou. Host

Bey, La Rocque, choreographer.

Davis, Chuck, 1937- director.

Grant, William H., III, lighting designer.

La Rocque Bey Dance Company.

PAKA Dance Theater Company.

Nile Ethiopian Ensemble.

Sabar ak Ru Afriq (Dance company)

Brooklyn Academy of Music.

DanceAfrica (Festival)

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-773