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Copasetics. [Interviews and rehearsals]

Title
Copasetics. [Interviews and rehearsals] [videorecording]
Publication
[1977]

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Additional Authors
  • Brown, Ernest.
  • Cook, Charles, 1917-1991.
  • Gaines, Bubba.
  • Bufalino, Brenda.
  • Wasserman, Dorothy.
  • Copasetics.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 videocassette (45 min.) : sd., b&w NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Brief interviews interspersed with footage of the dancers rehearsing onstage. Charles "Cookie" Cook and Ernest "Brownie" Brown recall how they started their careers. After dancing a brief duet, they talk about performing and finding material for their team, Cook and Brown. Leslie "Bubba" Gaines, who is initially seen dancing his special jumprope dance and other numbers, talks about boxing, developing the jumprope dance, and performing at the Cotton Club and in Europe prior to World War II. Cook then returns to dance, briefly joined by Brown.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of the American Tap Dance Orchestra.
Series Statement
American Tap Dance Orchestra Video Library.
Uniform Title
Great feats of feet (Motion picture)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Interviews.
  • Video.
  • Dance rehearsals.
Note
  • Original container labeled: Copasetics 1975, with time codes, 028 + 029.
  • Time code on frame.
  • Footage recorded for the documentary Great feats of feet (1977), produced and directed by Brenda Bufalino. For a recording of the completed documentary, see: *MGZIC 7-507.
  • For additional data compiled by Tony Waag, archivist, American Tap Dance Orchestra, see *MGX 98-6644 American Tap Dance Orchestra Video Library.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewer: Brenda Bufalino.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped onstage at the Main Building Auditorium, New Paltz, New York, probably in 1977.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3127
OCLC
NYPY98-F3007
Title
Copasetics. [Interviews and rehearsals] [videorecording]
Imprint
[1977]
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
American Tap Dance Orchestra Video Library.
Performer
Interviewees/performers: Charles "Cookie" Cook, Ernest "Brownie" Brown, Leslie "Bubba" Gaines.
Interviewer: Brenda Bufalino.
Also appearing on camera: Dorothy Wasserman.
Event
Videotaped onstage at the Main Building Auditorium, New Paltz, New York, probably in 1977.
Added Author
Brown, Ernest. ive, dancer.
Cook, Charles, 1917-1991. ive, dancer.
Gaines, Bubba. ive, dancer.
Bufalino, Brenda. Producer
Bufalino, Brenda. Director
Bufalino, Brenda. Interviewer
Wasserman, Dorothy. Depicted
Copasetics.
DHCA.
Added Title
Great feats of feet (Motion picture)
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3127
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