Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Meyers, Lou.
2. Bey, La Rocque
3. Davis, Chuck, 1937-
4. Grant, William H., III
5. La Rocque Bey Dance Company.
6. PAKA Dance Theater Company.
7. Nile Ethiopian Ensemble.
8. Sabar ak Ru Afriq (Dance company)
9. Brooklyn Academy of Music.
10. DanceAfrica (Festival)
11. DHCA.

Description

1. 2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Alternative title

1. Recovering our legacy
2. Dance Africa '97

Subject

1. Dance
2. Tap dancing
3. Child dancers
4. Bird dances
5. Video
6. Medicine dances
7. Dance > Ethiopia
8. Ritual and ceremonial dancing > West Indies
9. Dance > Guinea
10. Ritual and ceremonial dancing > Africa, West
11. Lebou (African people) > Dances
12. Drummers (Musicians)
13. Dance > Africa, West
14. Black films and programs
15. Dance, Black > West Indies

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.
3. Black films and programs.

Contents

1. Disc 1 (ca. 60 min.): [Welcome] / by Lou Myers -- Memorial -- Processional -- [Dances] / performed by La Rocque Bey Dance Company ; collage of African and African-American works inspired by the late La Rocque Bey, including: Tap/drum interlude, Funga (Welcome dance), drummers [instrumental work], Kou kou (social celebration song from Guinea), Dunumba (men's dance), Sorsornet (social dance from Guinea), Manjani (from Mali, Guinea, Senegal), VooDoo -- [Dances] / performed by PAKA (Passing Ancestral Knowledge Along) Dance Company ; includes Spider dance, Yonvalu (in honor of Dumbala the snake god), Petro, Congo day.
2. Disc 2 (ca. 56 min.): [Dances and instrumental music] / performed by the Nile Ethiopian Ensemble ; includes Guarge (a dance based on the movements of harvesting and preparing kocho, or the false banana plant), Oromo dance (a display dance performed by young warriors in monkey-skin headdresses), and Gondar dance (dance imitating bird and chicken movements, performed to love songs) -- The healing, Ndepp ceremony / performed by Sabar ak Ru Afriq ; healing ritual of the Lebou people of the Senegambia region of West Africa -- Grand finale / featuring all of the evening's performers.

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-773

Note

1. Presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music.
2. Accompanied by house program.

Access (note)

1. Permission required.

Credits (note)

1. Lighting, William H. Grant III.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, New York, on May 24, 1997 (8PM), by Nick of Time Productions of White Plains, N.Y.

Funding (note)

1. This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System details (note)

1. DVD.

Title

1. DanceAfrica '97, 20th anniversary celebration [videorecording] : recovering our legacy / artistic direction by Chuck Davis.

Imprint

1. 1997.

Country of producing entity

1. United States

Performer

1. Griot, Lou Myers.

Credits

1. Lighting, William H. Grant III.

Event

1. Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, New York, on May 24, 1997 (8PM), by Nick of Time Productions of White Plains, N.Y.

Restricted access

1. Permission required.

Funding

1. This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System details

1. DVD.

Local note

1. Former classmark: *MGZIC 9-4509.

Local subject

1. Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- West Indies.
2. Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Africa, West.

Local subject

1. Bird dances.
2. Medicine dances.

Added author

1. Meyers, Lou. Host
2. Bey, La Rocque, choreographer.
3. Davis, Chuck, 1937- director.
4. Grant, William H., III, lighting designer.
5. La Rocque Bey Dance Company.
6. PAKA Dance Theater Company.
7. Nile Ethiopian Ensemble.
8. Sabar ak Ru Afriq (Dance company)
9. Brooklyn Academy of Music.
10. DanceAfrica (Festival)
11. DHCA.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-773