Research Catalog

Title

Keith Lee's Ballet of Contemporary Arts [videorecording] / presented by DC Art/Works and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Publication

1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lynn, Judah
• Carlson, Carmen Perez
• Mentor, Karen
• Gamboa, Jennifer Mahler
• Jones, Doris
• Lee, Keith
• Rightmyer, Molly.
• Mitchell, Joni.
• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
• Ballet of Contemporary Art Company.
• DHCA.

Description

1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Keith Lee.

Subject

Award presentations

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Credits (note)

• Lighting, Joseph Walker.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in performance at the Duke Ellington Theater, Washington, D.C., on July 15, 1993 ; video production, Jon Rutherford.

Contents

• Blessed is each day (ca. 26 min.) / choreography and set, Keith Lee ; music, traditional Jewish liturgical music ; costumes, Diane Braden ; consultant and translator, Rabbi Mavin Bash ; danced by Judah Lynn (rabbi and father), Carmen Carlson-Perez [Carmen Perez Carlson?] (wife and mother), Karen Menter [Mentor?] (eldest daughter and protector), Jenifer Malher Gamboa [Jennifer Mahler Gamboa?] (middle daughter and flag bearer), Melinda Rinehart (youngest daughter and child).
• Child pretending (ca. 11 min.) / choreography, Keith Lee ; music, Joni Mitchell ; costumes, Monifa Christian ; danced by Jenifer Malher Gamboa [Jennifer Mahler Gamboa?].
• Bach vibrations (ca. 4 min.) / choreography, Doris W. Jones ; music, Johann Sebastian Bach ; danced by Kisha Davis, Nellie Bassman, Nicole Simms.
• Portraits of a young couple (world premiere) (ca. 8 min.) / choreography, Keith Lee ; costumes, Monifa Christian ; danced by Elizabeth Morches and Hilary Wright (the young couple) ; music played by Leigh Anne Gillespie (piano) and Virginia Gardner (cello).
• Two Raggedy Anns (ca. 28 min.) / choreography, Keith Lee ; music, silent movie background music and sound effects, BBC radio broadcasts ; set, Molly Lightmyer [Rightmyer?] ; costumes, Diane Braden ; danced by Marty Turk (confused charlatan), Carmen Carlson-Perez [Carmen Perez Carlson?] (reluctant ballerina), Karen Menter [Mentor?] and Jenifer Malher Gamboa [Jennifer Mahler Gamboa] (two Raggedy Anns).
• The BaKongo dance party (Ceremony of offerings) (world premiere) (ca. 32 min.) / choreography, Keith Lee ; music, traditional drumming from Africa, Haiti and Cuba ; costumes, Monifa Christian ; danced by Corrine Jenkins (the north wind), Gina d'Antonio (the east wind), Billie Walls (queen of the BaKongo party), with Pepper Williams, Dee Dee Williams, Madelene Trujillo, Nicole Simms, Nakia Coley, Kisha Davis, Melinda Johnson (women of the BaKongo dance party), students of the Suitland School of Performing Arts, Suitland, Md.
• Award presentation to Doris W. Jones, co-founder and present director of the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet and the Capitol Ballet ; presented by Evelyn Woolston.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3298

OCLC

NYPY98-F3258

Title

Keith Lee's Ballet of Contemporary Arts [videorecording] / presented by DC Art/Works and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Imprint

1993.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Credits

Lighting, Joseph Walker.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Duke Ellington Theater, Washington, D.C., on July 15, 1993 ; video production, Jon Rutherford.

Added Author

Lynn, Judah, dancer.

Carlson, Carmen Perez, dancer.

Mentor, Karen, dancer.

Gamboa, Jennifer Mahler, dancer.

Jones, Doris, choreographer. Honoree

Lee, Keith, choreographer. Designer

Rightmyer, Molly. Designer

Mitchell, Joni. Composer

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Composer

Ballet of Contemporary Art Company.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3298