Research Catalog

Title

[Tassilo Adam film screening for Bu Kusumobroto and others] [videorecording].

Publication

1990.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Kusumobroto, Raden Ayu Sri.
• Dewey, Alice G.
• Burton, Deena.

Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (124 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

In 1989-1990 a Fulbright Scholarship enabled Deena Burton to take copies of Tassilo Adam's ethnographic dance films, which she had edited, back to Indonesia. She presented screenings for Indonesian artists and scholars, eliciting their comments and background information. These screenings were recorded on 8mm videocassette. Adam's films are not visible on the screen, and there is no dance content. The language spoken is usually Bahasa Indonesia, but the participants may speak Javanese among themselves; at this screening, Bu Kusumobroto speaks English with Burton and Alice Dewey. Bu Kusumobroto [Bu is an honorific], a former court dancer, visited the U.S. in 1968 on a John D. Rockefeller III grant to study choreometrics at Columbia University. Alice G. Dewey, an American anthropologist and professor emeritus in the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, specializes in the study of Javanese society.

Series Statement

Deena Burton Collection

Subject

• Adam, Tassilo
• Dance > Indonesia

Genre/Form

Video.

Note

• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Audio loss and distortion at ca. 53-61 min. into Disc 2.

Event (note)

• Probably recorded in Yogyakarta, Java, on Aug. 15, 1990.

Funding (note)

• Funding for the preservation and cataloging of the Deena Burton Collection was provided in part by the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Skip La Plante.

Biography (note)

• Deena Burton, 1948-2005, was an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar of Indonesian dance. During her first trip to Indonesia in 1976-1980, she studied a variety of Indonesian dance styles. After returning to New York City, she obtained a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University in 1982. Working with several dance, music, and theater groups, she staged both original and Indonesian choreographies, and founded her own company, Bali-Java Dance Theater. She frequently collaborated with composer Skip La Plante, whom she later married. She was among the founders of the New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan ensemble, later called Gamelan Kusuma Laras. She was a major force behind the not-for-profit organization Arts Indonesia. At the New York Public Library, she edited the Tassilo Adam films, an invaluable collection shot in Indonesia in the 1920s, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to take the edited films to Indonesia in 1989-1990. She received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University in 1997, writing her dissertation on Claire Holt. For a fuller biography, see: http://www.gamelan.org/deenaburton/deenabio.html.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4358

OCLC

275278841

Title

[Tassilo Adam film screening for Bu Kusumobroto and others] [videorecording].

Imprint

1990.

Series

Deena Burton Collection

System Details

DVD.

Performer

Participants: Bu Kusumobroto [Raden Ayu Sri Kusumobroto], Pak Karkono, Pak Pas, Alice Dewey. The prefixes Bu and Pak are honorifics.

Event

Probably recorded in Yogyakarta, Java, on Aug. 15, 1990.

Funding

Funding for the preservation and cataloging of the Deena Burton Collection was provided in part by the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography

Deena Burton, 1948-2005, was an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar of Indonesian dance. During her first trip to Indonesia in 1976-1980, she studied a variety of Indonesian dance styles. After returning to New York City, she obtained a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University in 1982. Working with several dance, music, and theater groups, she staged both original and Indonesian choreographies, and founded her own company, Bali-Java Dance Theater. She frequently collaborated with composer Skip La Plante, whom she later married. She was among the founders of the New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan ensemble, later called Gamelan Kusuma Laras. She was a major force behind the not-for-profit organization Arts Indonesia. At the New York Public Library, she edited the Tassilo Adam films, an invaluable collection shot in Indonesia in the 1920s, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to take the edited films to Indonesia in 1989-1990. She received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University in 1997, writing her dissertation on Claire Holt. For a fuller biography, see: http://www.gamelan.org/deenaburton/deenabio.html.

Local Note

This screening continues on *MGZIDVD 5-4357 [Tassilo Adam film screenings in Java] [and] [Music for homemade instruments].

Source

Gift; Skip La Plante.

Added Author

Kusumobroto, Raden Ayu Sri.

Dewey, Alice G.

Burton, Deena.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4358