Research Catalog

Title

Haitian dance: history and tradition. Second camera, close ups and short takes [videorecording] = Danse haïtienne: histoire et tradition / presented by the Haitian Committee of Art and Folklore (Comité Haïtien Art et Folklore) ; seminar coordinator, Eileen Herzog-Bazin ; founder and president, Odette Latour Wiener.

Publication

c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cadet, Jean Evans
• Déita.
• Gomez, Tommy
• Herzog-Bazin, Eileen.
• Wiener, Odette Latour.
• Lindop, Timothy.
• Haitian-American Academy of Ballet and Arts.
• Comité haïtien art et folklore.
• New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
• Haitian dance: history and tradition (Seminar) (1997 : Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
• DHCA.

Description

1 videocassette (34 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Presented as part of a week-long seminar, Haitian dance: history and tradition, focusing on the traditional dances of Haiti and the development of its theatrical performing arts history through the 20th century.

Series Statement

Haitian dance: history and tradition.

Alternative Title

Haitian dance: history and tradition. Camera two excerpts

Subject

• Dance > Study and teaching > Haiti
• Modern dance > Technique > Dunham

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• The preservation of these videotapes was made possible through the cooperation of Eileen Herzog-Bazin, Comité Haïtien Art et Folklore, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.
• Title on frame: Second camera, close ups and short takes.
• Title on container: Camera two excerpts.

Performer (note)

• Seminar musicians: Jean Marie Brignol, Joseph Brignol, Jacques Fontilus, Saül Jean-Pierre, Julien Rodrique, Maurice Saintelus.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Haitian-American Academy of Ballet and Arts, Port-au-Prince, Haïti, on March 31, 1997, by Timothy Lindop.

Language (note)

• Credits in English and French.

Contents

• Progressions, Yanvalou and Nago [excerpts] (ca. 24 min.) / teacher, Jean Evans Cadet. For a recording of this session by camera 1, see *MGZIA 4-3132 Haitian dance: history and tradition. Progressions, Yanvalou and Nago.
• Conference, Haitian mythology [excerpt] (ca. 2 min.) / view of listeners at a lecture by Mercedes Guignard Déïta. For a recording of this session by camera 1, see *MGZIA 4-3131 Haitian dance: history and tradition. Conference, Haitian mythology.
• Master class, Dunham technique [excerpts] (ca. 6 min.) / teacher, Tommy Gomez. For a recording of this session by camera 1, see *MGZIA 4-3133 Haitian dance: history and tradition. Master class, Dunham technique.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3169

OCLC

NYPY99-F485

Title

Haitian dance: history and tradition. Second camera, close ups and short takes [videorecording] = Danse haïtienne: histoire et tradition / presented by the Haitian Committee of Art and Folklore (Comité Haïtien Art et Folklore) ; seminar coordinator, Eileen Herzog-Bazin ; founder and president, Odette Latour Wiener.

Imprint

c1998.

Country of Producing Entity

Haiti.

Series

Haitian dance: history and tradition.

Performer

Seminar musicians: Jean Marie Brignol, Joseph Brignol, Jacques Fontilus, Saül Jean-Pierre, Julien Rodrique, Maurice Saintelus.

Event

Videotaped at the Haitian-American Academy of Ballet and Arts, Port-au-Prince, Haïti, on March 31, 1997, by Timothy Lindop.

Language

Credits in English and French.

Added Author

Cadet, Jean Evans, dancer.

Déita. Speaker

Gomez, Tommy, dancer.

Herzog-Bazin, Eileen. Director

Wiener, Odette Latour.

Lindop, Timothy.

Haitian-American Academy of Ballet and Arts.

Comité haïtien art et folklore.

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

Haitian dance: history and tradition (Seminar) (1997 : Port-au-Prince, Haiti)

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3169