- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 streaming video files (NTSC) (89 min.) : sd., col.
- Summary
- Dancers from different regions of Saudi Arabia perform as part of the touring cultural exhibition Saudi Arabia yesterday and today, organized by the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia. All the dances are performed by men only; in all except the first, the dancers are accompanied by onstage musicians and singers. Each dance was filmed twice in performances that vary somewhat in choreography.
- Donor/Sponsor
- nys.
- Alternative Title
- Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation.
- Subjects
- Note
- Videotaped in performance for the Jerome Robbins Archive at Show Pier 88, New York, on March 15, 1990, by Johannes Holub, with the assistance of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video files only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Contents
- CONTENTS. - Reel 1 (54 min.): Nation pride, perf. by dancers from eastern, central, and western Arabia. Simsimea (Yanbuawi), fishermen's dance from western Arabia, especially the Yanbu area. Khobati (literally "emptiness"), competition dance from western Arabia. - Reel 2 (35 min.): Second performance of Khobati. Bedawi, dance from northeastern Arabia.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 2222
- OCLC
- NYPY906042522-F
- Title
Saudi national folkloric dance troupe [electronic resource]
- Imprint
1990.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video files only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-2148.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Television. Saudi national folkloric dance troupe.
Arabs -- Dances.
- Added Author
Holub, Johannes. Videographer
Saudi Arabia yesterday and today (Exhibition (1990 : New York, N.Y.)
- Added Title
Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 2222
*MGZIC 9-2148 (former)