2 streaming video files (NTSC) (95 min.) : sd., col.
Uniform title
Signs and wonders (Choreographic work : King)
Joplin dances (Choreographic work : Garland)
Song for dead warriors (Choreographic work : Smuin)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Contents
Cassette 1. Signs and wonders (ca. 27 min.) / choreography, Alonzo King ; music, traditional African (Cameroon "Hut song"; Drums of Africa, "The globe trotters"; Tabala Wolof Sufi drumming of Senegal, "Dembe"; traditional Senegal "Sama doom jangal"; Tchad "Chant de selle"; Guinea and Senegal "Work song"; traditional Ethiopian "Music dorze") ; costumes, Robert Rosenwasser and Sandra Woodall ; lighting, Lisa Pinkham ; performed by Cedric Rouse, Donald Williams, Robert Garland, Thaddeus Davis, Ryan Taylor, Keith Saunders, Vince Collins, Mark Burns, Calvin Shawn Landers, Lisa Attles, Virginia Johnson, Kellye Gordon, Karen Brown, Bethania Gomes, Tassia Hooks, Christina Johnson.
The Joplin dances (ca. 25 min.) / choreography, Robert Garland ; music, Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, Artie Matthews, arranged by David LaMarche ; sets, props, and costumes, Carl Michel ; lighting, Kevin Meek ; cast: Scene I / performed by Karen Brown, Patrick Johnson, Tassia Hooks, and Keith Saunders -- Scene II / performed by Virginia Johnson and Donald Williams, with Christina Johnson, Judy Tyrus, Charmaine Hunter, Kellye Gordon, Lisa Attles, Cedric Rouse, Ryan Taylor, and Lenore Pavlakos, Tanya Wideman, Simone Cardoso, Bethania Gomes, Zalika Proctor ; conductor, David LaMarche.
Cassette 2. A song for dead warriors (ca. 43 min.) / choreography, Michael Smuin, staged by Attila Ficzere and Alison Dean ; music, Charles Fox ; scenery and costumes, Willa Kim ; lighting, Sara Linnie Slocum ; projection designs, Ronald Chase ; Indian dance consultant, Jasper Redrobe ; Indian singers and drummers, Tootoosie Family ; Native American advisor, Sacheen Little Feather ; research consultant, Stephen K. Smuin ; cast: Birth / performed by Luis Dominguez -- Ancestral chiefs / performed by Keith Saunders, Cubie Burke, Calvin Shawn Landers, Donald Williams, Augustus van Heerden -- Reservation / performed by Christina Johnson, Luis Dominguez, with Tanya Wideman, Calvin Shawn Landers, Simone Cardoso, Andre Levitt, Zalika Proctor, Mark Burns, Bethania Gomes, Laveen Naidu, Pei-Yu Wu, Ryan Taylor -- The law / performed by Patrick Johnson with Cedric Rouse, Thaddeus Davis, Robert Garland, Pierre Lockett -- Pool hall / performed by Laveen Naidu, Andre Levitt, Ryan Taylor, Mark Burns, Calvin Shawn Landers, Patrick Johnson, Luis Dominguez -- Vision / performed by Christina Johnson, Luis Dominguez, with Keith Saunders, Eddie J. Shellman, Tyrone Brooks, Donald Williams, Augustus van Heerden, Pei-Yu Wu, Mark Burns, Tanya Wideman, Ryan Taylor, Zalika Proctor, Andre Levitt, Lenore Pavlakos, Simone Cardoso, Bethania Gomes, Calvin Shawn Landers, Laveen Naidu, Tanya McClure, Chandra Moss -- Pool hall / performed by Luis Dominguez, Patrick Johnson, with Cedric Rouse, Robert Garland ; conductor, David LaMarche.
Call number
*MGZIDF 2326
Note
Recording made possible by the cooperation of Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
Artistic director, Arthur Mitchell ; executive director, Charmaine Jefferson.
Performer (note)
Performed by Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Event (note)
Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, on March 14, 1995, by Robert Shepard.
Funding (note)
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Title
Dance Theatre of Harlem [electronic resource]
Imprint
c1995.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Performer
Performed by Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Credits
Artistic director, Arthur Mitchell ; executive director, Charmaine Jefferson.
Event
Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, on March 14, 1995, by Robert Shepard.
Funding
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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.