An instructional dance video featuring N'deye Gueye, a professional dancer from Senegal, teaching the social dance, Kaolack. The video attempts to give the student a sense of the basic steps and rhythm from which the dancer can then develop their own personal style. Accompaniment is given by a family of griots/drummers from Senegal, their language of the drum is as important to the dance as the movements.
Alternative title
Harlem Girls Productions present: Dances of the Sabar Orchestra
Documentary footage from Guew Bi ; written and directed by Francoise Bouffault.
Access (note)
Patrons can access this streaming video file online.
Credits (note)
Executive producer, Ife Felix ; producer/director, Rosana Chang ; photographs by Jack Vartoogian ; graphic design by Abayomi Harris, Cathy Lewis ; editor, Julia O'Farrow ; camera, Noel Mendez.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Type of content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
video file streaming H.264
Event
Videotaped during instruction at a studio, New York, N.Y., in 1998.
Performer
Instructor/dancer, Ndeye Gueye ; narration by Malika Lee Whitney ; Sing Sing Rhythms (drummers), Cheikh Tairou M'baye, Abdou M'baye, Birahim Gueye ; dancers, Paulette Alexander, Ayanna Ricco, Talibah Aquil.