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Rock me mama

Title: Rock me mama [videorecording] / choreography by Jody Oberfelder ; music by Steve Housepian ; lyrics and vocals by Tine Kindermann and Jody Oberfelder.
Publication: 1997.

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Description

1 videocassette (16 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Compilation of a television news report and excerpts from a stage performance.

Uniform Title

Rock me mama (Choreographic work : Oberfelder)
Expectant tango (Choreographic work : Oberfelder)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
News.
Video.

Note

Title from original container. Additional data for Nothing like a dame '97 from house program.

Contents

CNN. The world today. A different story (ca. 4 min.) / telecast on April 10, 1997 ; anchors, Kathleen Kennedy, Linden Soles ; reporter, Jeanne Moos. Report on Jody Oberfelder's Rock me mama, a piece for five female dancers and their babies. The piece is shown in studio rehearsal, and in performance at the Palace Theater, New York, N.Y., during the Eleventh Annual Easter Bonnet Contest representing Dancers Responding to AIDS, part of a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Also screened are excerpts from an earlier performance, with the babies at a younger age, and from Oberfelder's Expectant tango. Includes interviews with Oberfelder and dancers Denise Roberts and Paula Gifford.
Nothing like a dame '97 (excerpts) (ca. 12 min.) / recorded in performance at the Marquis Theater, New York, N.Y., on February 24, 1997 ; benefit for the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of the Actors' Fund of America. Includes: Rock me mama / costumes, Eileen Fisher, Katrin Schnabl ; danced by Jennifer and Hannah Fuchs-Hart, Paula and Jessica Gifford, Denise and Catherine Roberts, Emily and Celeste Schottland, Vicky and Daniel Virgin -- "One of those days" / sung by Donna Murphy -- "Let's face it, not all ruts need repair" / written by Erma Bombeck ; read by Joan Hamburg -- "Since I fell for you" (excerpt) / sung by Betty Buckley. For complete footage of this evening, see *MGZIA 4-3942 Nothing like a dame '97.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3943

OCLC

NYPY00-F525

Title

Rock me mama [videorecording] / choreography by Jody Oberfelder ; music by Steve Housepian ; lyrics and vocals by Tine Kindermann and Jody Oberfelder.

Imprint

1997.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Added Author

Oberfelder, Jody, choreographer.

Oberfelder, Jody, lyricist.

Oberfelder, Jody, singer.

Oberfelder, Jody, dancer.

Oberfelder, Jody, interviewee.

Roberts, Denise, dancer.

Roberts, Denise, interviewee.

Gifford, Paula. ive, dancer.

Fuchs, Jennifer, dancer.

Schottland, Emily, dancer.

Virgin, Vicky, dancer.

Murphy, Donna, performer.

Hamburg, Joan, speaker.

Buckley, Betty, performer.

Housepian, Steve. Composer

Schnabl, Katrin. Costume designer

Fisher, Eileen. Costume designer

Bombeck, Erma. Author

Cable News Network.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (Organization)

Dancers Responding to AIDS (Organization)

Actors' Fund of America.

DHCA.

Added Title

Rock me mama (Choreographic work : Oberfelder)

Expectant tango (Choreographic work : Oberfelder)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3943

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