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Additional authors

1. Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities.
2. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (29 min.) : si., b&w NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

1. Views of Mardi Gras (carnival) celebrations in Haiti, mostly of parades featuring floats and people in costumes and masks. Dance content includes: men in fanciful costumes ; boys in elaborate headdresses, with canes ; a stilt dancer in the parade.

Series statement

1. Katherine Dunham Centers Collection

Subject

1. Haiti
2. Dance > Haiti
3. Processions > Haiti
4. Carnival > Haiti

Contents

1. Mardi Gras -- Dancing at Pont Beudette -- Stanley Reeser beating drum -- President Vincent -- Boys doing scissors dance.

Call number

1. *MGZIA 4-5210

Note

1. Originally filmed on Regular 8mm ; transferred to videotape by the Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in 2000.

Event (note)

1. Filmed in Haiti ; from Fred Allsop's private collection.

Title

1. Haiti, 1932-1937. Carnival, Haiti, 1936 [videorecording] / [presented by] the Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities.

Imprint

1. 1936.

Country of producing entity

1. Haiti.

Series

1. Katherine Dunham Centers Collection

Event

1. Filmed in Haiti ; from Fred Allsop's private collection.

Added author

1. Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities.
2. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.

Research call number

1. *MGZIA 4-5210