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Summary
Erick Hawkins discusses the characteristics and development of American modern dance, particularly Isadora Duncan's innovations in movement and thought. Four members of his dance company, Nada [Diachenko] Reagan, Beverly Brown, Natalie Richman, and Robert Yohn, demonstrate exercises as Hawkins talks about the technique he has evolved. Two excerpts from Cantilever (choreography: Hawkins, music: Lucia Dlugoszewski) are then performed: a solo by Beverly Brown and a duet by Hawkins and Yohn. Yohn also performs a solo under the opening credits.
Recorded at a lecture-demonstration presented at American University, Washington, D.C., on August 19, 1971. Produced in cooperation with the American University Wolf Trap Academy for the Performing Arts, Dance Division, and the Department of Mass Communication. Producers: Pamela Harris and Clarice Leslie. Director: James Onder.
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Funding (note)
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Title
Erick Hawkins: A philosophy of contemporary American dance [electronic resource]
Imprint
1971.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Local note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-1960.
Additional Copy: 1 3/4" videocassette, copied from A.O. by DC, 3/89; in Princeton ReCAP Regular Storage; was vid. viewing copy until 6/2016.