Research Catalog

On Fire with African Dance : Stacato Incandescence: The Story of Mambo

Title
  1. On Fire with African Dance : Stacato Incandescence: The Story of Mambo / a presentation by Robert Farris Thompson, Master T ; presented by the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
Published by
  1. 2013.

Available online

Details

Additional authors
  1. Thompson, Robert Farris
  2. Schmidt, Jan, 1948-
  3. Weaver, Jonathan
  4. Penn, Robert E.
  5. Robert Penn Productions.
  6. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  7. New York Public Library. Dance Division.
Description
  1. 1 streaming video file (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color; H.264 file.
Summary
  1. Robert Farris Thompson (Master T), the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University discusses Mambo which shows a fusion of a variety of dance styles from lindy, to ballet, to bomba, to Afro-Cuban dance, interspersed with slides of still images and video footage, concludes with a Question & Answer session.
Series statement
  1. Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation
Subject
  1. Nonfiction films
  2. Lectures
  3. Video
  4. Dance > Africa
  5. Mambo (Dance)
  6. Thompson, Robert Farris
Genre/Form
  1. Dance.
  2. Video.
  3. Lectures.
  4. Nonfiction films.
Contents
  1. Introduction (6 min.) / speaker, Jan Schmidt -- Presentation (61 min.) / speaker, Robert Farris Thompson -- Question & Answer session (13 min.).
Call number
  1. *MGZIDF 1328
Note
  1. Introduced by Jan Schmidt (Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division).
  2. Widescreen.
  3. Video played during presentation, courtesy of Robert Farris Thompson.
  4. A series of free public programs on African dance presented by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division with The Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Access (note)
  1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
  1. Videography production, Robert Penn Productions ; producer, Robert Penn ; director of photography, Jonathan Weaver ; editor, Robert Penn.
Funding (note)
  1. This recording was made possible by the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Title
  1. On Fire with African Dance : Stacato Incandescence: The Story of Mambo / a presentation by Robert Farris Thompson, Master T ; presented by the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
Production
  1. 2013.
Country of producing entity
  1. U.S.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. computer
Type of carrier
  1. online resource
Digital file characteristics
  1. video file streaming H.264
Series
  1. Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation
Access
  1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Performer
  1. Speakers, Jan Schmidt (Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division) and Robert Farris Thompson (Master T).
Credits
  1. Videography production, Robert Penn Productions ; producer, Robert Penn ; director of photography, Jonathan Weaver ; editor, Robert Penn.
Event
  1. Videotaped in performance at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. on 2013 March 14.
Funding
  1. This recording was made possible by the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Added author
  1. Thompson, Robert Farris, speaker.
  2. Schmidt, Jan, 1948- speaker.
  3. Weaver, Jonathan, director of photography.
  4. Penn, Robert E., videographer.
  5. Penn, Robert E., editor.
  6. Robert Penn Productions.
  7. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  8. New York Public Library. Dance Division.
Research call number
  1. *MGZIDF 1328
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