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Donald McKayle HeartBeats of a DanceMaker

Title: Donald McKayle [videorecording] : HeartBeats of a DanceMaker / a production of Dance Pioneers and Hawaii Public Television ; directed and edited by Joy Chong-Stannard ; produced by Gregg Lizenbery and Marilyn Cristofori ; choreography by Donald McKayle.
Publication: c2002.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Entrant in the Dance Films Association's 31st annual Dance on Camera Festival 2003. Documentary on the wide-ranging achievements of Donald McKayle, dancer, choreographer, director, and teacher, whose career spans the worlds of dance, the Broadway stage, film, and television. The program emphasizes his lifelong interest in the human spirit and condition, his contributions to the American civil rights movement, and his long-held belief in and practice of multiculturalism, all of which find expression in his works. The program contains extended segments on two recent works, House of tears (1992) and Heartbeats (1997).

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Dance Films Association.

Uniform Title

Heartbeats (Choreographic work : McKayle)
Saturday's child (Choreographic work : McKayle)
Games (Choreographic work : McKayle)
Her name was Harriet (Choreographic work : McKayle)
Rainbow 'round my shoulder (Choreographic work : McKayle)
District Storyville (Choreographic work : McKayle)
Songs of the disinherited (Choreographic work : McKayle)
House of tears (Choreographic work : McKayle)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Documentaries and factual films and programs.
Video.

Credits (note)

Written by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl; original music by Stephen Fox; executive producers, Gregg Lizenbery, Marilyn Cristofori, and Joy Chong-Stannard.

Performer (note)

Narrator: Della Reese.
Interviewees: Donald McKayle, with Harry Belafonte, Lea Vivante, Robert Regala, Pamala Jones, Carl Flink, Carla Maxwell.

Contents

Dance excerpts: Heartbeats / danced by the Limón Company -- Saturday's child / danced by Janet Eilber -- Games (b&w) / danced by Donald McKayle and others -- They called her Moses [Her name was Harriet] (b&w) / danced by Jacqueline Walcott, Kathleen Standford [Stanford?], Arthur Mitchell, McKayle, Carmen de Lavallade, others -- Rainbow 'round my shoulder (b&w) / danced by McKayle, Mary Hinkson, others -- Rainbow 'round my shoulder / danced by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Donna Wood, Masazumi Chaya, others -- District Storyville (b&w) / danced by William Louther, Tommy Johnson, others -- In the deep dreaming of my hands / danced by Lea Vivante -- Cosby show / brief dance by Judith Jamison and McKayle -- Sophisticated ladies / danced by Lorraine Fields, Gregg Burge, Gary Q. Lewis -- The great white hope / danced by ensemble -- Bedknobs and broomsticks / danced by Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, and animated characters -- Blood memories / danced by Marceline Freeman -- Songs of the disinherited. Angelitos negros / two interpretations, danced by Marceline Freeman and Tamica Washington of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble -- House of tears / danced by the San Jose/Cleveland Ballet: Karen Gabay, others -- Heartbeats / danced by the Limón Company: Robert Regala, Pamala Jones, Daniel Charon, Carl Flink, Francisco Ruvalcaba, Jonathan Riedel, Mary Ford, Carla Maxwell, Carlos Orta, Nina Watt, others.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7104

OCLC

54811099
NYPY03-F476

Title

Donald McKayle [videorecording] : HeartBeats of a DanceMaker / a production of Dance Pioneers and Hawaii Public Television ; directed and edited by Joy Chong-Stannard ; produced by Gregg Lizenbery and Marilyn Cristofori ; choreography by Donald McKayle.

Imprint

c2002.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Credits

Written by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl; original music by Stephen Fox; executive producers, Gregg Lizenbery, Marilyn Cristofori, and Joy Chong-Stannard.

Performer

Narrator: Della Reese.

Interviewees: Donald McKayle, with Harry Belafonte, Lea Vivante, Robert Regala, Pamala Jones, Carl Flink, Carla Maxwell.

Local Subject

Race and dance.

Multiculturalism and dance.

Musical comedies. Golden boy.

Musical comedies. Sophisticated ladies.

Musical comedies. Raisin.

Added Author

McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018, choreographer.

McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018, dancer.

McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018. Interviewee

Vivante, Lea, dancer. Interviewee

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023, interviewee.

Eilber, Janet, dancer.

Walcott, Jackie, dancer.

Grant, Kathy Stanford, dancer.

Mitchell, Arthur, 1934- dancer.

De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931- dancer.

Hinkson, Mary, dancer.

Wood, Donna, 1954- dancer.

Chaya, Masazumi, dancer.

Louther, William, dancer.

Johnson, Tommy, dancer.

Jamison, Judith, dancer.

Burge, Gregg, dancer.

Lansbury, Angela, 1925-2022, performer.

Tomlinson, David, 1917-2000, performer.

Freeman, Marceline, dancer.

Washington, Tamica, dancer.

Gabay, Karen Denise, dancer.

Regala, Robert, dancer.

Regala, Robert. Interviewee

Jones, Pamala, dancer. Interviewee

Flink, Carl, dancer. Interviewee

Maxwell, Carla, dancer. Interviewee

Watt, Nina, dancer.

Charon, Daniel, dancer.

Ruvalcaba, Francisco, dancer.

Riedel, Jonathan, dancer.

Ford, Mary, dancer.

Orta, Carlos, dancer.

Reese, Della. Narrator

Chong-Stannard, Joy. Director

Lizenbery, Gregg. Producer

Cristofori, Marilyn. Producer

Kneubuhl, Victoria N. (Victoria Nalani)

Donald McKayle and Company.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

José Limón Dance Company.

San Jose Cleveland Ballet.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble.

Hawaii Public Television.

Dance Films Association.

Dance on Camera Film Festival.

Added Title

Heartbeats (Choreographic work : McKayle)

Saturday's child (Choreographic work : McKayle)

Games (Choreographic work : McKayle)

Her name was Harriet (Choreographic work : McKayle)

Rainbow 'round my shoulder (Choreographic work : McKayle)

District Storyville (Choreographic work : McKayle)

Songs of the disinherited (Choreographic work : McKayle)

House of tears (Choreographic work : McKayle)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7104

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