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Lavinia Williams audio and moving image collection : 587 items.
- Title
- Lavinia Williams audio and moving image collection : 587 items.
- Author
- Yarborough, Lavinia Williams
- Publication
- [1999]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | Sc MIRS Williams 1999-11 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Details
- Description
- 349 audio discs (analog)
- 90 audiocassettes
- 138 videocassettes
- Summary
- This collection contains audio recordings of dance instructions, classical, jazz, African, Carbbean, and modern music, as well as educational materials.
- Subject
- Yarborough, Lavinia Williams
- Dunham, Katherine
- Yarborough, Sara
- Destiné, Jean Léon
- Maximilien, Régine
- Montrosier-Trouillot, Regine
- Romero, Carmencita
- Piquion, René
- Nettleford, Rex
- Katherine Dunham Company
- National Folkloric Troupe of Haiti
- Haitian Institute for Folklore and Classic Dance
- Club des femmes de carrières libérales et commerciales de Port-au-Prince
- National Dance Theater Company of Jamaica
- Guyana National School of Dance
- World Festival of Negro Arts
- Folk dancing, Haitian
- Dance companies > Haiti
- Dance schools > Haiti
- Dance teachers > Haiti
- Choreographers > Haiti
- Dance > Study and teaching > Haiti
- Ballet > Haiti
- Tourism > Haiti
- Modern dance > Technique > Dunham
- Dance > Religious aspects
- Dance teachers > Caribbean Area
- Religious dance
- John Canoe (Dance)
- Dance > Bahamas
- Dance > Jamaica
- Vodou
- Dance > Guyana
- Dance > Trinidad and Tobago
- Note
- Lavinia Williams was an African-American dancer, teacher and choreographer who played an influential role in the development of modern and folkloric dances in Haiti, Jamaica, Guyana and the Bahamas. She was a member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company between 1940 and 1945. Her daughter Sara Yarborough was a star dancer with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. She died in Haiti in 1989.
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Williams 1999-11
- OCLC
- 1313117615
- Author
- Yarborough, Lavinia Williams, creator.
- Title
- Lavinia Williams audio and moving image collection : 587 items.
- Publisher
- [1999]
- Type of Content
- spoken wordtwo-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- audiovideo
- Type of Carrier
- audio discaudiocassettevideocassette
- Local Note
- Forms part of the Lavinia Williams archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts & Rare Books Division: Lavinia Williams papers, 1940-1989. (Sc MG 659).
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Williams 1999-11