Research Catalog

Title

Ram Gopal [videorecording] : dancing to the music of time / directed by Zoe Hardy.

Publication

[200-?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hardy, Zoe.
• Bhide, Smita.
• Davis, Lois.
• Ram Gopal, 1917-2003
• Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004.

Description

1 videocassette (VHS, PAL) (25 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Profile of Indian dancer Ram Gopal, now a resident of Venice. In an interview he discusses his parents; the opprobrium attached to dancing in his youth; his training in Kathakali dancing in Kerala; the religious aspects of Indian dance; joining the dance company of La Meri; his first meeting with British ballerina Alicia Markova; his perception of Serge Diaghilev's significance; his meeting with Vaslav Nijinsky in the 1940s; his belief that Eastern and Western dancers have much to learn from each other's disciplines and techniques. Dame Alicia Markova, who is also interviewed, discusses her first impressions of Ram Gopal's dancing, and their performances together in 1960. The program contains numerous film clips of Ram Gopal in performance.

Subject

• Ram Gopal, 1917-2003 > Interviews
• Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004 > Interviews
• La Meri, 1898-1988
• Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929
• Nijinsky, Vaslav, 1890-1950
• Dancers > India > Interviews
• Kathakali

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Interviews.
• Video.

Credits (note)

• Research, Smita Bhide ; editing, Lois Davis.

Performer (note)

• Interviewees: Ram Gopal, Alicia Markova.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7346

OCLC

NYPY03-F680

Title

Ram Gopal [videorecording] : dancing to the music of time / directed by Zoe Hardy.

Imprint

[200-?]

Credits

Research, Smita Bhide ; editing, Lois Davis.

Performer

Interviewees: Ram Gopal, Alicia Markova.

Added Author

Hardy, Zoe. Director

Bhide, Smita. Researcher

Davis, Lois. Film editor

Ram Gopal, 1917-2003, dancer. Interviewee

Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004. Interviewee

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7346