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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Marla Blakey.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Marla Blakey.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Blakey, Marla
  • Hayden, Robert C.
  • Hickey, Matthew
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 42 min., 48 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Choreographer and dancer Marla D. Blakey was born on April 26, 1949, in Washington, D.C., and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Blakey graduated from Jeremiah E. Burke High School in 1955, and soon after moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey, where she performed as a dancer at Club Harlem. There, she performed with Sammy Davis, Jr., Billy Eckstein, Sarah Vaughn, and with the bands of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. Blakey then went to Europe, dancing in Amsterdam, London, Germany, Belgium and Italy. While in Europe, she put together her own dance group and produced and booked shows at U.S. Army bases abroad. She returned to Boston and opened her own dance studio. In 1975, Blakey moved to Los Angeles, where she worked to develop and choreograph shows for artists Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Sting, and Bette Midler. Blakey notably choreographed and staged the NBC television special, Motown Returns to the Apollo.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Marla Blakey
  • Marla Blakey
Subject
  • Blakey, Marla > Interviews
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Choreographer Dancer
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
OCLC
994208734
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Marla Blakey.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
Playing Time
024248
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Robert Hayden, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Event
Recorded Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts 2005 August 9.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Choreographer Dancer.
Added Author
Blakey, Marla, interviewee.
Hayden, Robert C., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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