Dance Black America /
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 DVD |
| Language: | English |
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Highstown, NJ :
Dance Horizons Video,
1990
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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: | Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD. |
| Production Credits: | Festival directors, Patricia Kerr Ross, Mikki Shepard ; executive producers, Patricia Kerr Ross, Harvey Licthenstein, Mikki Shepard, Frazer Pennebaker. |
| ISBN: | 087127292X 9780871272928 |