Dancing in the Light: Six Dance Compositions By African American Choreographers / Asadata Dafora, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Talley Beatty, Donald McKayle, Bill T. Jones
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Actor: Taye DiggsBrand: Kultur
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 57 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
Movie Reviews of Dancing in the Light: Six Dance Compositions By African American Choreographers / Asadata Dafora, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Talley Beatty, Donald McKayle, Bill T. Jones
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Summary: 5 Stars
The video has great selections of dance from earlier and contempoarary modern dance. Great soundtrack. The choreographers tell the story of lynches, chain gangs, lonliness, and mourning. The dancers are amazing. I bought this product to use in my classroom. This video gives students an opportunity to see dance that they could not see live. This video clearly illustrates that dance can tell a story that resonates with issues people struggled with historically as well as present day issues such as AIDS. Many students think dance is abstract or about fantasy life with princes and princesses and dreams of nutcrackers coming to life. Now, they know better. There is a lot of material here to make connections to social studies, literature, writing, drama and music standards for enhancing lesson plans. Highly recommend!!!
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Summary of Dancing in the Light: Six Dance Compositions By African American Choreographers / Asadata Dafora, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Talley Beatty, Donald McKayle, Bill T. Jones
The American Dance Festival presents Dancing in the Light, a one-hour modern dance television program showcasing 6 historic dance compositions by African American choreographers. All of the dances were originally recorded for the Emmy Award-winning series Free to Dance, a three-hour documentary that aired on PBS in 2001 as part of the Great Performances: Dance in America series. While Free to Dance uses select excerpts from the dances to inform its narrative within a historical context, Dancing in the Light features six dances in their entirety or in the case of one work, a complete section.AWASSA ASTRIGE/OSTRICH (1932)
Choreography by Asadata Dafora
Performed by G. D. Harris, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
BARRELHOUSE BLUES - excerpt (1938)
Choreography by Katherine Dunham
Performed by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
STRANGE FRUIT (1943)
Choreography by Pearl Primus
Performed by Dawn Marie Watson, Philadanco
MOURNER?S BENCH (1947)
Choreography by Talley Beatty
Performed by Jerome Stigler, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
RAINBOW ?ROUND MY SHOULDER (1959)
Choreography by Donald McKayle
Performed by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
D-MAN IN THE WATERS - Section 1 (1989)
Choreography by Bill T. Jones
Performed by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
A Production of The American Dance Festival in association with Thirteen/WNET New York
Producer Jodee Nimerichter, Director And Writer Madison Davis Lacy, Editor Girish Bhargava, Consultants Matthew Diamond, Gary Halvorson, Host Taye Diggs, Camera Ed Fussell, Ronnie Smith, Tom Hurwitz, Sound Recordists Peter Miller, John Zecca, Lighting Designer Alan Adelman, Executive Producer Charles L. Reinhart.
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