- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 42 min., 32 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Dance group manager and dancer Sylvia Waters was born in New York, New York on January 22, 1940. She attended The Julliard School for dance and received her B.S. degree in 1962. Waters began dancing with Donald McKayle's dance company, before touring Europe performing in Langston Hughes' Black Nativity in 1964. Waters then worked in Paris, France for three years, where she danced in the Paris Opera Ballet. After performing at the 1968 Olympics, Waters returned to the United States and joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater company as a principal dancer. In 1974, the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, later renamed Ailey II, was founded and one year later Waters was made its director. Waters received numerous awards, including the Dance Magazine Award, and served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Sylvia Waters
- Sylvia Waters
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1003150677
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sylvia Waters.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
034232
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2010 August 27.
Recorded New York, New York 2016 October 4.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Artistic Director Dancer.
- Added Author
Waters, Sylvia, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.