Divine Drumbeats: Katherine Dunham and Her People (Great Performances: Dance in America season 7, episode 22) (1980) (no video link)
Title
Divine Drumbeats: Katherine Dunham and Her People (Great Performances: Dance in America season 7, episode 22) (1980) (no video link)
Subject
Haitian Vaudon
Carnival of Rhythm
African American dance
Modern dance
URL
No video link found. This content is associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library originally recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. No link has yet been found to provide online access and the original videotape has not yet been digitized.
Description
Content Description from WorldCat.org (https://www.worldcat.org/title/divine-drumbeats-katherine-dunham-and-her-people/oclc/79917681) :
Portions of a traditional Haitian Vaudon (Voodoo) ceremony presented at various points in the program --
Katherine Dunham interviewed about her life and work --
Film footage from Carnival of rhythm (1939) and from several 1940's films, including Stormy weather --
Haitian history and culture, as they relate to dance, briefly discussed and illustrated with film clips of the country and people -- Taped sequences of classes at Southern Illinois University's Performing Arts Training Center in East Saint Louis -- Rites de passage / choreography, Katherine Dunham; music, Paquita Anderson, Georges Auric, and Katherine Dunham; costumes, John Pratt; performed by members of the Dunham Company: Part 1, Fertility, danced by Norman Davis (the young man), Doris Bennett (the young woman), Pearl Reynolds (the matriarch); Part 2, Puberty, danced by Emilio Lastarria (the boy initiate), Vanoye Aikens (the warrior chief); Part 3, Death, danced by Glory van Scott (the queen), Vanoye Aikens (the consort), John Jones (the herald), Ed Brown (the witch doctor), Emilio Lastarria (Death); with Barbara Wright Craig, Lesa Huston, Perry Moore, Andrea Smythe, Lynn Sterling, Charles La Vont Williams, and Camille Yarbrough.
Ephemera: Available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. One page from Under Cover magazine with images from program and description/time circled.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Portions of a traditional Haitian Vaudon (Voodoo) ceremony presented at various points in the program --
Katherine Dunham interviewed about her life and work --
Film footage from Carnival of rhythm (1939) and from several 1940's films, including Stormy weather --
Haitian history and culture, as they relate to dance, briefly discussed and illustrated with film clips of the country and people -- Taped sequences of classes at Southern Illinois University's Performing Arts Training Center in East Saint Louis -- Rites de passage / choreography, Katherine Dunham; music, Paquita Anderson, Georges Auric, and Katherine Dunham; costumes, John Pratt; performed by members of the Dunham Company: Part 1, Fertility, danced by Norman Davis (the young man), Doris Bennett (the young woman), Pearl Reynolds (the matriarch); Part 2, Puberty, danced by Emilio Lastarria (the boy initiate), Vanoye Aikens (the warrior chief); Part 3, Death, danced by Glory van Scott (the queen), Vanoye Aikens (the consort), John Jones (the herald), Ed Brown (the witch doctor), Emilio Lastarria (Death); with Barbara Wright Craig, Lesa Huston, Perry Moore, Andrea Smythe, Lynn Sterling, Charles La Vont Williams, and Camille Yarbrough.
Ephemera: Available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. One page from Under Cover magazine with images from program and description/time circled.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
James Earl Jones (narrator)
Ralph Holmes (art director)
Glenn Berenbeim (writer)
Publisher
WNET/Channel 13
Date
1980 April 16
Citation
“Divine Drumbeats: Katherine Dunham and Her People (Great Performances: Dance in America season 7, episode 22) (1980) (no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 16, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/193.