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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. 2 videocassettes (69 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

1. Compilation of short films ; some may be out of sequence. Most of the scenes of voodoo ceremonies and dancing were filmed on the grounds of Katherine Dunham's estate, Habitation Leclerc, in Port-au-Prince. The scenes include: the drawing of veve, ritual designs in flour on the earth ; dancing by three black-clad women with white-painted faces, one of whom later dances outdoors with a palm tree ; two men discussing voodooism in French ; a dance solo by a man costumed as Baron Samedi, lord of cemeteries and zombies, who wears a black top hat, tailcoat, and dark glasses ; views of women in trance ; a ritual involving a goat ; and many scenes of dancing by women and men, accompanied by drumming and singing. A brief segment shot at the seashore depicts people and boats.

Series statement

1. Katherine Dunham Centers Collection

Subject

1. Dance
2. Dance > Haiti
3. Documentaries and factual films and programs
4. Ritual and ceremonial dancing > Haiti
5. Dance, Black > Haiti
6. Voodoo dancing
7. Vodou > Haiti
8. Motion pictures
9. Video

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Documentaries and factual films and programs.
3. Motion pictures.
4. Video.

Call number

1. *MGZIA 4-5356

Note

1. Originally filmed on Super 8mm ; film preserved and transferred to videotape by the Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in 2002.
2. Intermittent loss of audio. Cassette 1 contains a 5-min. gap beginning at ca. 16 min. into the tape.

Event (note)

1. Filmed in Haiti in 1975.

Title

1. Vaudun ceremonies, Haiti [videorecording] / [presented by] the Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities.

Imprint

1. 1975.

Series

1. Katherine Dunham Centers Collection

Event

1. Filmed in Haiti in 1975.

Local subject

1. Voodoo dancing.
2. Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Haiti.

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 4-5356