Research Catalog
An evening with traditional African dance artists in NYC conversation, demonstration, and celebration
- Title
- An evening with traditional African dance artists in NYC conversation, demonstration, and celebration / moderator, C. Daniel Dawson ; presented by The Jerome Robbins Dance Division and DanceNYC.
- Publication
- 2015.
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (84 min.) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Panelists mention the languages they speak; discuss how they became dancers/performers; how Sékou Touré (First President of Guinea) promoted dance and the National Dance Company of Guinea; Marie talks about how the different African cultures were mixed to create her dance company in Senegal due to President Leopold Senghor; about traditional dances and how they are changed to be mounted on a stage; talk about learning the drum music first before learning the dance; the healing that comes with the music and dance; philosophy/methodology of teaching; and concludes with each panelist performing their favorite dance.
- Uniform Title
- African Dance Interview Project
- Alternative Title
- Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Panel discussions.
- Filmed dance.
- Filmed performances.
- Nonfiction films.
- Note
- Widescreen.
- Evan Leslie did not speak during this performance.
- This recording was made possible by the cooperation of DanceNYC and Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access this streaming video file online.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Mamadou Niang (NextMedia.tv).
- Funding (note)
- This recording was made possible by Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 6194
- OCLC
- 939531100
- Title
- An evening with traditional African dance artists in NYC conversation, demonstration, and celebration / moderator, C. Daniel Dawson ; presented by The Jerome Robbins Dance Division and DanceNYC.
- Production
- 2015.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file streaming H.264
- Series
- African Dance Interview Project
- Access
- Patrons can access this streaming video file online.
- Event
- Videotaped during panel discussion at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., as part of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation funded African Dance Interview Project, 2015 August 9.
- Performer
- Panelists: Maguette Camara (dundun drum), Lamine Thiam, Ndeye Gueye, Youssouf Koumbassa (djembe drum), Marie Basse Wiles, Mamadou Guisse (Djembe drum).Introductory Remarks: Evan Leslie (artistic producer, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts), Lane Harwell (executive director, DanceNYC), Tanisha Jones (director, Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image), Carolyn Webb (project director, African Dance Interview Project)
- Credits
- Videographer, Mamadou Niang (NextMedia.tv).
- Funding
- This recording was made possible by Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Camara, Maguette, panelist.Thiam, Lamine, panelist.Gueye, Ndeye, panelist.Koumbassa, Youssouf, panelist.Basse-Wiles, Marie, panelist.Guisse, Mamadou, panelist.Camara, Maguette, performer.Koumbassa, Youssouf, performer.Guisse, Mamadou, performer.Gueye, Ndeye, performer.Basse-Wiles, Marie, performer.Thiam, Lamine, performer.Harwell, Lane, speaker.Jones, Tanisha, speaker.Webb, Carolyn (Carolyn Jeannette), speaker.Niang, Mamadou, videographer.Mertz Gilmore Foundation, presenter.New York Public Library. Dance Division, presenter.Dance/NYC, presenter.
- Added Title
- Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDF 6194