Research Catalog

Six American Dance Pioneers : A Look Back, A Leap Forward: Carmen De Lavallade [Wide shot].

Title
  1. Six American Dance Pioneers : A Look Back, A Leap Forward: Carmen De Lavallade [Wide shot].
Published by
  1. 2000.

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Details

Additional authors
  1. De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931-
  2. Hess, Susan
  3. Kuetemeyer, M.
  4. Painted Bride Art Center, honoree
  5. Painted Bride Art Center, presenter
Description
  1. 2 streaming video files (89 min.) : sound, color.
Summary
  1. In Reel 1, Carmen De Lavallade discusses her childhood and when she started dancing at the Thomas Jefferson High School, in East Los Angeles, around 1948; story of Ronald Gaffney partnering her at a school assembly; studying and performing with Lester Horton; attending junior high and high school with Alvin Ailey; Alvin Ailey taking over Lester Horton's studio/theater after Horton's death; her experience dancing with Jack Cole in a movie; participating in the film Carmen Jones and performing in House of Flowers by Herbert Ross; shown Camera 3 film of Lester Horton Dancers in Sarong Paramaribo; performing with John Butler at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; dancing with her mentor and actress Mildred Dunnock in the John Bulter film, Touch of Loss; the film Porgy and Bess for the Gershwin Years TV program; joining and teaching at the Yale Repertory Theatre, and its performance of Midsummer Night's Dream; Yale drama students she worked with included Henry Winkler, Meryl Streep, and Sigourney Weaver; working with Sarah Caldwell in a German opera at the Boston Opera. Reel 2 begins with De Lavallade talking about getting acting work in Seattle as mother in Blood Wedding and at the Guthrie Theater with Peter Sellar's Hang on to me; experience being part of a bus tour; choreographing at the Metropolitan Opera; being head of the Dance Dept. for three years at Adelphi University; acting in several movies including John Sayle's Lone Star and Adam Sandler's Big Daddy; brief Question & Answer session with talk of the Carmen Jones film, her feelings about Hip Hop dance; her experiences with racism on the Ed Sullivan Show and being arrested for attending a racially mixed party.
Series statement
  1. Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive
Uniform title
  1. Touch of loss (Choreographic work : Butler)
  2. Estilo de tù (Choreographic work : Horton)
  3. Sweet Bitter Love (Choreographic work : De Lavallade)
  4. Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive.
Alternative title
  1. M. Kuetemeyer
Subject
  1. Nonfiction films
  2. Interviews
  3. Filmed dance
  4. Video
  5. Dance
  6. Hip-hop
  7. Racism and the arts > United States
  8. Carmen Jones (Motion picture)
  9. Estilo de tù (Choreographic work : Horton)
  10. Touch of loss (Choreographic work : Butler)
  11. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Midsummer night's dream
  12. Ed Sullivan show (Television program)
  13. Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
  14. Lester Horton Dancers
  15. Adelphi University
  16. Yale Repertory Theatre
  17. Butler, John, 1920-1993
  18. Ailey, Alvin
  19. Horton, Lester, 1906-1953
  20. De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931-
Genre/Form
  1. Dance.
  2. Video.
  3. Filmed dance.
  4. Interviews.
  5. Nonfiction films.
Contents
  1. Reel 1. Carmen De Lavallade [ends abruptly] (58 min.).
  2. Reel 2. Carmen De Lavallade (conclusion) (22 min.) -- Conclusion with Sweet Bitter Love film (9 min.)
Call number
  1. *MGZIDF 1472
Note
  1. Title taken from video introduction; additional title from original cassette label.
  2. Same as *MGZIDF 1471, without introduction and tribute but more visible film footage.
  3. Reel 1 (58 min.) ; Reel 2 (approximately 31 min.).
Access (note)
  1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
  1. Presented by Susan Hess Modern Dance; videographer, M. Keutemeyer.
Source (note)
  1. Susan Hess;
Title
  1. Six American Dance Pioneers : A Look Back, A Leap Forward: Carmen De Lavallade [Wide shot].
Production
  1. 2000.
Country of producing entity
  1. U.S.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. computer
  2. video
Type of carrier
  1. online resource
Series
  1. Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive
  2. Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive.
Original version
  1. Original format: 2 videocassettes (Mini DV).
Restricted access
  1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits
  1. Presented by Susan Hess Modern Dance; videographer, M. Keutemeyer.
Event
  1. Videotaped during talk at Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, Pa. 2000 October 29.
Source
  1. Gift; Susan Hess; 2010.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Added author
  1. De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931- speaker.
  2. Hess, Susan, speaker.
  3. Hess, Susan, director.
  4. Hess, Susan, honouree.
  5. Kuetemeyer, M., videographer.
  6. Painted Bride Art Center, honoree.
  7. Painted Bride Art Center, presenter.
  8. Hess, Susan, donor.
Added title
  1. Container of (work): Touch of loss (Choreographic work : Butler)
  2. Container of (work): Estilo de tù (Choreographic work : Horton)
  3. Container of (work): Sweet Bitter Love (Choreographic work : De Lavallade)
Research call number
  1. *MGZIDF 1472
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