Research Catalog

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Additional authors

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

Description

1. 1 videocassette (5 min.) : si., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

1. Views of landscapes and people in unidentified locations, followed by footage of two women in grass skirts performing Polynesian dance movements, possibly Tahitian or Hawaiian.

Series statement

1. Katherine Dunham Centers Collection

Subject

1. Polynesia
2. Dance > Polynesia

Call number

1. *MGZIA 4-5224

Note

1. Originally filmed on 16mm ; film preserved and transferred to videotape by the Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in 2001.

Event (note)

1. Probably filmed by Katherine Dunham in the South Pacific in 1957, during a tour that included New Zealand.

Title

1. Polynesian dance [videorecording] / [presented by] the Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities.

Imprint

1. 1957.

Series

1. Katherine Dunham Centers Collection

Event

1. Probably filmed by Katherine Dunham in the South Pacific in 1957, during a tour that included New Zealand.

Added author

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

Research call number

1. *MGZIA 4-5224