2 streaming video files (95 min. total) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Uniform title
Valse (Choreographic work : Hill-Sagan)
100% cotton natural fiber (Choreographic work : Cummings)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Contents
1. Gate keepers (preview) (ca. 22 min.) / choreography, Ronald Kevin Brown, assisted by Angelica Patterson ; original music and costumes, Wunmi Olaiya ; lighting, William H. Grant, III ; danced by Kim Y. Bears, Hope Boykin, Candace Whitaker, Willia-Noel Montague, Hollie Wright, William N. Isaac. Preview of a longer work to be completed by 1999.
Echoes: a celebration of Alvin Ailey (preview) (ca. 17 min.) / choreography, Milton Myers ; music arrangements, William Catanazaro ; music, John Adams ; costumes, Natasha Guruleva ; lighting, Chenault Spence ; danced by Hope Boykin, Desiree Lynn Pina, Willia-Noel Montague, Candace Whitaker, Allyson Triplett, Tracy Vogt, Brandon Ellis, Gabriele Tesfa Guma, Curtis C. Glover, William Grinton, William N. Isaac, W. Pennington Miller, II. Preview of a longer work to be completed by 1999.
La valse (excerpt) (ca. 15 min.) / choreography, Gene Hill Sagan, reconstructed by Kim Y. Bears ; music, Maurice Ravel ; costume execution, Frankie Fehr and Natasha Guruleva ; lighting, William H. Grant, III ; danced by Kim Y. Bears, Hope Boykin, Desiree Lynn Pina, Candace Whitaker, Allyson Triplett, Tracy Vogt, Willia-Noel Montague, Brandon Ellis, William N. Isaac.
2. 100% cotton natural fiber (New York premiere) (ca. 40 min.) / conception, direction and choreography, Blondell Cummings ; music composed and sung by Oumou Sangaré ; text, Niamini Mutima ; costumes, Nancy Bours ; lighting, Pat Dignan ; danced by Hope Boykin, Desiree Lynn Pina, Allyson Triplett, Candace Whitaker, Tracy Vogt, Curtis C. Glover, Brandon Ellis, Gabriele Tesfa Guma, William Grinton ; with Alejandro Rivera (young boy). Section I: "Passing on a tradition" ; section II: "Fu fu" ; section III: "Tashi-Evelyn."
Call number
*MGZIDF 2453
Note
Accompanied by house program.
Recording made possible by the cooperation of Philadanco, The Philadelphia Dance Company; the Joyce Theater; and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection, The New York Public Library.
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video files online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Event (note)
Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, on June 11, 1998; video director, Robert Shepard.
Funding (note)
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Title
Philadanco, The Philadelphia Dance Company [videorecording] / executive/artistic director, Joan Myers Brown.
Imprint
c1998.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Playing time
005428 004104
Event
Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, on June 11, 1998; video director, Robert Shepard.
Funding
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming video files online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.