Product Details

• Directors: Virginia Brooks, Janet Mendelsohn
• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1990
• Run Time: 59 minutes
• ASIN: 0871271575
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #515,314 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Narrated by Alwin Nikolais Traces modern dance pioneer Charles Weidman’s career from his roots in Lincoln, Nebraska, performing with Denishawn, his partnership with Doris Humphrey, and the last thirty years of his life on his own. Historical footage of Weidman performing with Humphrey, speaking about his work, and teaching a class in kinetic pantomime. Features contemporary performances of LYNCHTOWN and excerpts from ON MY MOTHER’S SIDE, FLICKERS, BRAHMS WALTZES, and CHRISTMAS ORATORIO. Describes and demonstrates the basics of the Humphrey-Weidman technique and reveals Weidman as a master of both comic and serious choreography.