Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Dunham, Katherine.
2. Dunham, Katherine
3. Pally, Alan J.
4. Katherine Dunham Company.
5. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd. and si., col. with b&w sequences; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Katherine Dunham discusses her first visit to Haiti; arriving in Haiti; history of Haiti's independence obtained by slaves; her experience dealing with the elite people of Haiti; attending first healing ceremony with dancing, prayers, fire, participants having a general sense of well being and her feelings about the reasons people are healed; communicating with God and her feelings about how God hears us during prayer; the Vodou priest and priestesses and the tender care they offer; becoming a priestess because she was interested in healing. Clips include the Haiti people dancing and the Katherine Dunham Company performing. This discussion concludes with a Question & Answer session.

Subject

1. Filmed lectures
2. Dunham, Katherine
3. Vodou priests
4. Video
5. Ritual and ceremonial dancing > Haiti
6. Katherine Dunham Company
7. Filmed dance
8. Filmed performances
9. Vodou > Haiti
10. Mambos (Vodou)
11. Dance > Haiti
12. Folk dancing > Haiti
13. Prayer

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.
3. Filmed dance.
4. Filmed performances.
5. Lectures.
6. Nonfiction films.

Contents

1. Introduction (4 min.) / speaker, Alan Pally -- Discussion (38 min.) / by Katherine Dunham -- Film clips (26 min.) -- Question & Answer (19 min.) / speaker, Katherine Dunham.

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-7118

Note

1. This program is presented in celebration of the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
2. Credits from accomp. house program.
3. Black screen with no sound for approx. 4 min. during film clips beginning at approx 49 min.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped during a discussion at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. on May 1, 2004.

System details (note)

1. DVD.

Source (note)

1. Alan J. Pally, LPA Public Programs;

Title

1. An afternoon with Katherine Dunham [videorecording] / series producer, Alan J. Pally ; presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Imprint

1. c2004.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

System details

1. DVD.

Original version

1. Original format: 1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.

Event

1. Videotaped during a discussion at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. on May 1, 2004.

Performer

1. Speaker, Katherine Dunham.

Source

1. Gift; Alan J. Pally, LPA Public Programs; June 30, 2010. NN-PD

Local subject

1. Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Haiti.

Added author

1. Dunham, Katherine. Speaker
2. Dunham, Katherine, choreographer.
3. Dunham, Katherine, dancer.
4. Pally, Alan J., producer.
5. Katherine Dunham Company.
6. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
7. Pally, Alan J., donor.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-7118