Product Details

• Actors: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Mama Lu Parks Jazz Dancers, Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theatre
• Directors: D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
• Format: HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Princeton Book Co Pub
• DVD Release Date: September 1, 2008
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0871272938
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,818 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

One of the most exuberant and touching dance programs ever to be seen on television. --Jennifer Dunning, New York Times

Product Description

Documents a four-day festival celebrating the evolution of black dance, from the sly parody of plantation quadrilles known as the Cakewalk to contemporary sophistication at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Features The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Mama Lu Parks' Jazz Dancers, Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theatre and more.

Festival Artistic Director: Harold Pierson/Lenwood Sloan
Festival Music Director: Rudy Stevenson
Filmed by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus
Produced by Pennebaker Associates, Inc. and State University of New York


Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Fontessa and Friends
choreography Louis Johnson

Mama Lu Parks Jazz Dancers
Lindy Hop

Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theatre
From Before

The Charles Moore Dance Theatre
The Ostrich
choreography Asadata Dafora

Shango
choreography Katherine Dunham

The Chuck Davis Dance Company
Lenjen-Go/Mandiani

Eleo Pomare
Junkie

Chuck Green
Tap Dance

The Magnificent Force
Break Dancing

The Jazzy Double Dutch Jumpers
Double Dutch Jump Rope

Al Perryman
As Earl Snake Hips Tucker

Leon Jackson and Halifu Osumare
Juba Cakewalk
choreography Lenwood Sloan

Dejan s Olympia Brass Band
Rudy Stevenson Band
Ruth Brisbane
Biss Harmanizers

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dance Black America, May 3, 2010

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D. Williams "DEW" (Oakland,Calif) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dance Black America (DVD)

I first saw this on PBS many years ago and have searched for it on DVD. If you like Dance Theatre of Harlem and The Alvin Ailey dancers, you will LOVE Dance Black America.
The only question is who will be your favorite dancers.
I never forgot Charles Moore doing the Ostrich or the Fagan Dancers.
This is a must have for your Black Culture library.

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Quality, November 16, 2011

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M. Hall "Happy Granny" (New Orleans) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dance Black America (DVD)

After receiving this item in damaged packaging (shipper's fault), I finally sat down to watch it and found that it would not play on any of my dedicated DVD players. I finally was able to watch it on my computer. The quality on a large screen was very poor. I decided to keep it only because I really love one of the companies performing. If you can locate an old videotape of this, copy it because that's what the distributor did and not very well. It most certainly is not worth the $44 that they are charging.