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Interview with Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya

Title
Interview with Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya [videorecording] / interviewer, Barbara Cohen-Stratyner.
Publication
c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Olaiya, Wunmi.
  • Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara Naomi.
  • Robert Penn Productions. vdg
  • New York Public Library. Dance Division.
  • National Endowment for the Arts.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (100 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya (costume designer, composer, fashion designer) discusses receiving a Bessie Award for costume design; how her career began by creating costumes for friends including Marlies Yearby (choreographer) and Ron Brown (choreographer); her process for creating Ron Brown's Upside down costumes that began by joining the company for rehearsals in the Ivory Coast where she located and learned about guinea brocade fabrics; displays her sketches for Upside down; her first experience designing for the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater creating costumes for two choreographic works in the same season, Donald McKayle's Danger run and Ron Brown's Grace, and displays her color costume sketches for these works; discusses the importance of fabric selection and the individual dancer's needs when creating costumes; creating costumes for Ron Brown's Come ye, and multi-choreographer piece for the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company by Donald Byrd, Rennie Harris, Kevin Ward, Reggie Wilson entitled, colôr-ógrǎphy, n. the dances of Jacob Lawrence; how she first learned to create designs for her singing performances and displaying her outfits; currently working on remaking Upside down and Grace costumes for new dancers; process for creating costumes for two works, Ron Brown's Ife by showing storyboards and costume sketches, and Marlies Yearby's Brown butterfly by showing costume sketches; and concludes with her dance audience/fans asking to buy outfits from Brown's Grace spurring her to sell dresses to the public as a fashion designer.
Alternative Title
  • Women designers for live performance, oral history, Omatayo Wunmi Olaiya.
  • Upside down (Choreographic work : Brown)
  • Danger run (Choreographic work : McKayle)
  • Grace (Choreograhic work : Brown)
  • Come ye (Choreographic work : Brown)
  • Brown butterfly (Choreographic work : Yearby)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Interview continues after the ending credits.
  • Recording made possible by the cooperation of Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
Credits (note)
  • Videotaped and edited by Robert Penn Productions ; director of photography, Robert Penn.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped at the studio of Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya in Brooklyn, New York on Jan. 6, 2009.
Funding (note)
  • This recording was made possible by an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-4860
OCLC
318614307
Title
Interview with Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya [videorecording] / interviewer, Barbara Cohen-Stratyner.
Imprint
c2009.
System Details
DVD.
Event
Videotaped at the studio of Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya in Brooklyn, New York on Jan. 6, 2009.
Performer
Interviewee, Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya.
Credits
Videotaped and edited by Robert Penn Productions ; director of photography, Robert Penn.
Funding
This recording was made possible by an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Local Subject
Costumes (Making or sewing)
Added Author
Olaiya, Wunmi. Interviewee
Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara Naomi. Interviewer
Robert Penn Productions. Videographer
New York Public Library. Dance Division.
National Endowment for the Arts.
Added Title
Upside down (Choreographic work : Brown)
Danger run (Choreographic work : McKayle)
Grace (Choreograhic work : Brown)
Come ye (Choreographic work : Brown)
Brown butterfly (Choreographic work : Yearby)
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-4860
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