Dance: Echoes of Jazz / WNET/13
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Genre: Television
Year Published: 1966
Creator: Indiana University Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center.
Format: 16mm
Description: Traces the development of American jazz dance, from tap dancing through the stylized theatrical form of the 1900s and orchestrated jazz of the Thirties, to the cool, abstract music of the Sixties. Demonstrates the basic steps of tap dance (sand, shuffle, waltz clog, time step, buck and wing) as performed by Honi Coles. Presents Paula Kelly, Dudley Williams, and William Luther dancing to "Storyville, New Orleans" and the music recorded by Jelly Roll Morton, and Grover Dale and Michel Harty dancing in "Idiom 59" and to recorded music of the same title by Duke Ellington. Presents John Butler's choreography of music by Gunther Schuller (variations on a theme by John Lewis, ("django") danced by John Butler, Mary Hinkson, and Buzz Miller.
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