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Spirit of vaudeville: Black minstrelsy performers [videorecording]
- Title
- Spirit of vaudeville: Black minstrelsy performers [videorecording]
- Publication
- 1985.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (28 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
- Series Statement
- Eye on dance ; 171
- Subjects
- Theatre Owners' Booking Association
- Dance, Black > United States
- Television > Spirit of vaudeville
- Minstrel shows
- Brown, Ernest
- Hoofers' Club
- Jones, Sissieretta, 1868-1933
- Williams, Bert, 1874-1922
- Television > Eye on dance
- Kersands, Billy
- Black Patti's Troubadours (Revue)
- Tap dancing
- Essence of old Virginia (Dance)
- Variety dancing
- Bubbles, John W
- Note
- Produced by ARC Videodance as part of the television series Eye on dance. Recorded on November 14, 1985 at the studios of WNYC, New York. Telecast on November 29, 1985. Producers: Celia Ipiotis and Jeff Bush. Video director: Richard Sheridan. Program director: Celia Ipiotis. Technical director: Jeff Bush. Host: Celia Ipiotis.
- Call Number
- *MGZIC 9-2963
- Title
- Spirit of vaudeville: Black minstrelsy performers [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 1985.
- Series
- Eye on dance ; 171
- Summary
- Veteran tap dancer Charles "Cookie" Cook and Hank Smith, who combines the arts of tap, mime, and clowning, talk about black performers in minstrel shows and vaudeville. Among the performers and institutions they discuss are Bert Williams; Billy Kersands; John Bubbles; Black Patti (called after opera singer Adelina Patti), star of the roadshow Black Patti's Troubadours; the vaudeville team of [Charles] Cook and [Ernest] Brown; challenge dances at the Hoofers' Club; and the T.O.B.A. (Theatre Owners' Booking Association), nicknamed the "Toby" circuit. Cook demonstrates the time-step, buck and wing, soft-shoe, and Bambalina, and describes the dance called the Essence of old Virginia, which evolved into the soft shoe. In closing, Smith and Cook perform a dance and rap.
- Local Subject
- Television. Spirit of vaudeville.Television. Eye on dance.
- Local Subject
- Variety dancing.
- Added Author
- Cook, Charles, 1917-1991. IntervieweeCook, Charles, 1917-1991, dancer.Smith, Hank. IntervieweeSmith, Hank, dancer.Ipiotis, Celia. HostIpiotis, Celia. ProducerIpiotis, Celia. DirectorBush, Jeffrey C. ProducerARC Videodance (Firm)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIC 9-2963