Ladygourd Sangoma

Item data

Title

Ladygourd Sangoma

Collection

Dance Theater Workshop Video Archive

Names

Best, Ahmondylla (Performer)
Best, Ahmondylla (Composer)
Best, Ahmondylla (Arranger)
Giraud, Tiyé (Performer)
Giraud, Tiyé (Choreographer)
Giraud, Tiyé (Composer)
Giraud, Tiyé (Arranger)
Patrick, Pamela (Performer)
Patrick, Pamela (Arranger)
Hall-Smith, Pat (Choreographer)
Hall-Smith, Pat (Performer)
Dawson, Lori A (Lighting designer)
Ladygourd Sangoma (Dance company) (Performer)
Dance Theater Workshop (Producer)
Video D Studios (Videographer)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1988

Table Of Contents

Burundi drumming (approx. 8 min.). Choreography: Giraud. Music: Arranged by the group; drum adaptation researched and arranged by Best; song concept by Patrick. Perf. by the group; dance solo perf. by Hall-Smith. -- Impressions of Burkina Faso (approx. 5 min.). Music/performance: Best. -- Ke Cosatu (Congress of South Africa Trade Unions) (approx. 3 min.). Choreography: 1) Sorority by Azikiwatu's sorority; 2) South African gum boot dance. Music: arranged by Best. Perf. by the group. -- HindeHu flutes (approx. 5 min.). Music/performance: group collaboration; humming bees researched by Patrick. -- Vocal gourd (approx. 4 min.). Music/performance: group collaboration. -- Work songs (Angola/Zaire and southern United States) (approx. 10 min.). Music: arranged by Giraud. Perf. by the group. -- Berimbao (approx. 5 min.). Music/performance: Giraud. -- Og un ya (Brazilian folk song) (approx. 5 min.). Choreography: Hall-Smith. Music: arranged by Giraud; drum and flute arranged by Patrick. -- Shekere finale (approx. 12 min.). Music/performance: group collaboration.

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2643

Subjects

Dance Theater Workshop
Gum boot dance (Dance)
Music -- Africa
Music -- Brazil
Drum dances
Dance

Genres

Filmed Performances

Notes

Content: Program title: Wave crossings.
Performers: Performed by Ladygourd Sangoma: Ahmondylla Best, Tiye Giraud, Pam Patrick, and special guest artist Pat Hall-Smith.
Venue: Videotaped in performance by Video D Studios at the Bessie Schönberg Theater, New York, on October 31, 1988. Presented by Dance Theater Workshop's Economy Tires Music Hall/New Song series.
Funding: This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Abstract

Instrumental and vocal works, many including choreographed movement.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12174898
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 3de072f0-6f29-0131-4f17-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Date Issued

1988

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