Dance Black America [videorecording] : [a festival of modern, jazz, tap and African styles] / Pennebaker Associates ; producers, D.A. Pennebaker, Chis Hegedus ; with David Dawkins.
Documents a four-day festival of dancers and dance companies held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The festival presented the oldest and the biggest to the newest and smallest Black companies and celebrated the evolution of Black dance from the sly parody of plantation quadrilles known as the Cakew...
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| Format: | Video VHS |
| Language: | English |
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Highstown, NJ :
Dance Horizons Video,
1990, ©1984.
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| Summary: | Documents a four-day festival of dancers and dance companies held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The festival presented the oldest and the biggest to the newest and smallest Black companies and celebrated the evolution of Black dance from the sly parody of plantation quadrilles known as the Cakewalk to the contemporary sophistication of the Alvin Ailey Company. |
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| Item Description: | Subtitle from menu. "A festival by ... State University of New York and Brooklyn Academy of Music"--Opening credits. |
| Physical Description: | 1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: | 087127292X 9780871272928 |
| Participant or Performer: | Narrator, Geoffrey Holder. |