1 streaming video file (NTSC) (60 min.) : sd., col.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Dance in America.
Uniform title
For Bird - with love (Choreographic work : Ailey)
Episodes (Choreographic work : Dove)
Contents
CONTENTS: For Bird with love. Choreography: Alvin Ailey, staged by Masazumi Chaya. Music: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, and Jerome Kern; original music composed and arranged by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Scenery/costumes: Randy Barcelo. Lighting: Timothy Hunter. Danced by Gary De Loatch (Bird); Dwight Rhoden, Desmond Richardson, Stephen Smith, Andre Tyson, Dereque Whiturs (men close to him); Marilyn Banks, Debora Chase, Elizabeth Roxas, Desire Vlad (women close to him); Dudley Williams (club manager); April Berry, Nasha Thomas (chorus girls). -- Episodes. Choreography: Ulysses Dove. Music: Robert Ruggieri. Costumes: Jorge Gallardo. Lighting: John B. Read. Danced by Chase, Wesley Johnson III, Rhoden, Richardson, Renee Robinson, Roxas, Smith, Vlad, and Whiturs.
Call number
*MGZIDF 7474
Note
Co-produced by Danmarks Radio and RM Arts in association with Thirteen/WNET, New York. Telecast on Thirteen/WNET's Great Performances: Dance in America series on February 8, 1991. Producer/director: Thomas Grimm. Co-producer: Margaret Selby. Host: Judith Jamison.
Danced by members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Funding (note)
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Title
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater steps ahead [electronic resource]
Imprint
1991.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.