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Jerry Ames Tap Dance Company (Videotape)
- Title
- Jerry Ames Tap Dance Company (Videotape)
- Publication
- 1983.
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- Description
- 1 cassette. 82 min. : sd. color NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Note
- Single camera record videotaped in performance at the Theater of the Riverside Church, New York, on May 14, 1983, during the Riverside Dance Festival by Virginia Brooks.
- Choreography: Jerry Ames. Costumes: Jesse Guerra. Lighting: Gordon Link.
- Danced by the Jerry Ames Tap Dance Company: Marcia Altman, Jerry Ames, Lenore Luthern, Joe Orrach, Laraine Perri, Anthony Peters, and Cheryl Wawro. Musical director: Rolf Barnes.
- Contents
- CONTENTS. - The tapists. Music: "Typewriter." Danced by Perri, Luthern, and Wawro. - Mood espagnol. Music: "Siboney." Danced by Ames. - Slip and slide. Music: "Sandpaper ballet." Danced by Peters, Wawro, Luthern, Perri, Orrach, and Altman. - Swingin'. Music: "Blues in B flat." Danced by Ames. - Baroque tapestry. Music: Bach (Italian concerto). Danced by Altman, Perri, Wawro, and Luthern. - Plus three. Music: "Cute" and "Crazy rhythms." Danced by Ames, Peters, and Orrach. - Sound footing. Music: "Big noise from Winnetka." Danced by Ames, Peters, Luthern, and Perri. - Rodgers and Hart medley [musical interlude] played by the Rolf Barnes Trio. - An American Irish jig. Music: "The Irish washerwoman." Danced by Wawro, Orrach, Luthern, Peters, Altman, and Perri. - Currents. Performed a cappella. Danced by Orrach, Wawro, Perri, Peters, Altman, and Luthern. - Softly. Music: "The old soft shoe" and "Old folks at home." Danced by Ames. - Sides of Sondheim [musical interlude] played by the Rolf Barnes Trio. - The fingers and the feet. Improvisation by Ames and the Rolf Barnes Trio. Ames also talks about tap dancing. - Tapper's waltz. Music: "Real live girl." Danced by Peters, Perri, Orrach, and Luthern. - Ramblin' rhythm. Music: "Yankee mambo." Danced by Ames and Altman. - Steppin' out. Music: "Give my regards to Broadway." Danced by the Company.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-299
- Title
- Jerry Ames Tap Dance Company (Videotape)
- Imprint
- 1983.
- Local Subject
- Television. Jerry Ames Tap Dance Company.Tap dancing.Improvisation in dance.
- Added Author
- Ames, Jerry, choreographer.Ames, Jerry, dancer.Altman, Marcia, dancer.Luthern, Lenore, dancer.Orrach, Joe, dancer.Perri, Laraine, dancer.Peters, Anthony, tap dancer.Wawro, Cheryl, dancer.Brooks, Virginia Loring.Jerry Ames Tap Dance Company.Riverside Dance Festival.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-299