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DanceAfrica 2002, post-performance street celebration

Title
DanceAfrica 2002, post-performance street celebration [videorecording] / presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music ; artistic director, Chuck Davis.
Publication
c2002.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Davis, Chuck, 1937-
  • Grant, Esther.
  • Thornton, Karen.
  • Robison, Mark (Cameraman)
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  • Character Generators/Video.
  • DanceAfrica (Festival)
Description
1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (58 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
Open air performance following the fourth and final DanceAfrica 2002 performance in Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House. Master of ceremonies Chuck Davis introduces Mary Robinson, selected as the year's honoree by the DanceAfrica Council of Elders. Her grandsons, in Watusi warrior costumes, perform a brief dance. Lee Abramson of the Council of Elders, presents a plaque to Peggy Alston, director of the Youth Arts Academy of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. Performances by teenagers and children are introduced by Davis or their instructors; these include the Princesses of Heart, a step team from Brooklyn, and students of African dance taught by Kadiatou Sibi, Esther Grant Walker, and Karen Thornton-Daniels. Davis then announces a game of dance "tag," solos performed in succession by adult dancers, among them L.J. Sulaimaan Wilson, Kadiatou Sibi, Karen Thornton-Daniels, Esther Grant, Melvin "Blak" Fogle, four stilt dancers, and others. Davis himself receives a National Dance Week award. The performance closes with a grand finale performed by all the participants.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Access (note)
  • Permission required.
Performer (note)
  • [Master of ceremonies:] Chuck Davis.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in performance on Lafayette Avenue, outside the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 26, 2002; video documentation, Character Generators Inc.; camera, Mark Robison.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-5982
OCLC
NYPY03-F166
Title
DanceAfrica 2002, post-performance street celebration [videorecording] / presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music ; artistic director, Chuck Davis.
Imprint
c2002.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Event
Videotaped in performance on Lafayette Avenue, outside the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 26, 2002; video documentation, Character Generators Inc.; camera, Mark Robison.
Performer
[Master of ceremonies:] Chuck Davis.
Restricted Access
Permission required.
Local Subject
Dancers, Teen-age.
Stilt dances.
Open air performances -- United States.
Added Author
Davis, Chuck, 1937- host.
Grant, Esther.
Thornton, Karen.
Robison, Mark (Cameraman), videographer.
Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Character Generators/Video.
DanceAfrica (Festival)
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-5982
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