CONTENTS: Cassette 1 (approx. 50 min.): Depend on you. Mus: traditional arranged spiritual, U.S. (no dance). -- Run carrot run/Kopanitsa. Mus: Bill Vanaver. Danced by Rebecca Kelly, Toni Smith, and Debra Wanner. -- Boll weevil [and] Coal creek march (no dance). Mus: traditional arranged music, Tennessee. -- Juba (no dance). Traditional game from the Georgia Sea Islands, U.S., learned from Bessie Jones. Perf. by Bill Vanaver. -- Don't blink. Mus: Walker Corbin Ramblers (E rag); traditional, Soviet Georgia. Cos: Nancy Johnson. Danced by Kelly, Wanner, Aaron Smith, Toni Smith, and Ilene Strickler. -- Adila [and] Iavnana (no dance). Perf. by Bill Vanaver, Livia Vanaver, and Evan Stover. -- The earth will have its own. Mus: Bill Vanaver. Cos: Lucia Reudenberg, Deborah Tacon, Bill Vanaver, and Livia Vanaver. Perf. by Aaron Smith (the youth), Strickler (the falcon), John Parton (the stag), Wanner (Beauty), and Livia Vanaver (narrator). -- Cassette 2 (approx. 35 min.): Ladies' court dances. Mus: Bill Vanaver (with text from a 13th-century ballad, Sir Orfeo) and "Fionnguala," traditional arranged music perf. by the Bothy Band. Cos: Rebecca Kelly. Danced by Kelly, Toni Smith, Wanner. -- Lady Margaret. Mus: traditional arranged music, Appalachia, U.S. (no dance). -- Irish medley. Mus: traditional (no dance). -- Greek medley (in three sections). "Thimame" (I remember). Mus: traditional. Danced by Kelly, Toni Smith, and Wanner. "Hilia
miria kimata" (One thousand, ten thousand waves) (no dance). Mus: Giannis Markopoulos. "Serra" (traditional music and dance). Chor/mus: traditional, Pontic Greek learned from Costas Papadopoulos. Perf. by the company. -- Appalachian medley. Chor: traditional clog dancing, arranged by Livia Wanaver. Mus: traditional. Perf. by the company.
Call number
*MGZIDF 5284
Note
Videotaped in performance by Dennis Diamond at the American Theatre Laboratory, New York, on October 13, 1978. Presented by Dance Theater Workshop.
Choreography: Livia Vanaver. Lighting: Peter Kaczorowski.
Performed by the Vanaver Caravan. Narrators: Livia Vanaver and Bill Vanaver.
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Title
Vanaver Caravan [electronic resource]
Imprint
1978.
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