Research Catalog

Title

The New Dance Group gala concert [videorecording] : an historic retrospective of New Dance Group presentations 1930's-1970's / produced by The American Dance Guild ; video directed by Johannes Holub ; concert production : producer/artistic director, Muriel Manings.

Publication

New York, NY : American Dance Guild, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• New Dance Group (New York, N.Y.)
• American Dance Guild.
• Congress on Research in Dance. Conference (1993 : New York, N.Y.)

Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (160 min.) : sd., col. and b&w; 1/2 in.

Summary

Concert performance of 18 dances and excerpts recreated from the original performances of the 1930's to 1970's by the New Dance Group. Includes interviews with some of the original choreographers.

Subject

• Modern dance > United States

Credits (note)

• Cameras, Johannes Holub, Jenny Holub.

Event (note)

• Recorded from a performance on June 11, 1993 for the conference Of, by and for the people, sponsored by the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholars.

System Details (note)

• VHS.

Contents

Songs (part III "To each his own) / Mary Anthony (9:30) -- Tenant of the street / Eve Gentry (7:05) -- Blues / Ronnie Aul (4:40) -- Mourner's bench / Talley Beatty (6:35) -- The desperate heart / Valerie Bettis (9:00) -- Lynchtown / Charles Weidman (8:00) -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Pearl Primus (6:00) -- The flight / Joseph Gifford (3:30) -- Shuvi Nafshi /Hadassah (6:25) -- Time is money / Jane Dudley (6:35) -- Harmonica breakdown / Jane Dudley (4:00) -- Sign dance for Sarah / Irving Burton (5:35) -- Rainbow 'round my shoulder / Donald McKayle (11:00) -- The transformations of Medusa / Jean Erdman (11:00) -- Lyric suite / Anna Sokolow (7:10) -- Strange hero / Daniel Nagrin (5:00) -- Romeo and Juliet / Joyce Trisler (8:20) -- Folksay / Sophie Maslow (18:20).

OCLC

ocm30312889

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library