Commitment: Two Portraits - Blondell Cummings (creator and performer) (1988)
Title
Commitment: Two Portraits - Blondell Cummings (creator and performer) (1988)
Subject
Modern dance
Black American . .
URL
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Description
Content description from WorldCat (https://www.worldcat.org/title/commitment-two-portraits/oclc/35301419) :
Two segments. The first, in black and white, is narration, with pantomime, of a housewife enacting a typical day, and is based on the stage version of "Food for thought", conceived and directed by Blondell Cummings. The second segment, in color, is of a nun in black habit narrating and dancing with other nuns wearing white, to lyrics and choreography based on the stage version of "The art of war/Nine situations," conceived and directed by Blondell Cummings and Jessica Hagedorn.
Ephemera: none available.
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Two segments. The first, in black and white, is narration, with pantomime, of a housewife enacting a typical day, and is based on the stage version of "Food for thought", conceived and directed by Blondell Cummings. The second segment, in color, is of a nun in black habit narrating and dancing with other nuns wearing white, to lyrics and choreography based on the stage version of "The art of war/Nine situations," conceived and directed by Blondell Cummings and Jessica Hagedorn.
Ephemera: none available.
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
Blondell Cummings (choreographer, dancer)
Bill Vorn (music)
GaeÌtan Grave (music)
GaeÌtan Grave (music)
Claire Samson (dancer)
Catherine Tardif (dancer)
Catherine Tardif (dancer)
Bernar Hébert (director)
Publisher
KTCA-TV (Television station : Saint Paul, Minn.)
Alive TV (Firm)
Twin Cities Public Television (Saint Paul, Minn.)
KTCA/Video (Firm)
Alive TV (Firm)
Twin Cities Public Television (Saint Paul, Minn.)
KTCA/Video (Firm)
Date
1988
Citation
“Commitment: Two Portraits - Blondell Cummings (creator and performer) (1988),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 20, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/775.