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Title Dancing / created by Rhoda Grauer ; produced by Thirteen/WNET in association with RM Arts and BBC-TV ; a Public Media Incorporated release
Published Chicago, Ill : ArtHaus Musik, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (471 min.)
Series Dance in video
Contents 1. The Power of dance -- 2. Lord of the dance -- 3. Sex and social dance -- 4. Dance at court -- 5. New worlds, new forms -- 6. Dance centerstage -- 7. The Individual and tradition -- 8. Dancing in one world
Summary This eight part series explores dance as of form of communication and expression in a variety of cultural contexts. Examples span the spectrum from staged ballet dancing to urban street dance to traditional myth and ritual. Filmed on location on 5 continents, this production took six years to make. Includes archival film footage
Notes Dialogue in English, French, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic and Hindu; voiceover in English
Documentary
Previously released on DVD
Subject Dance -- Cross-cultural studies
Dance -- Anthropological aspects.
Dance -- History
Dance -- Social aspects.
Dance.
Dancing
Dance.
Dance -- Anthropological aspects.
Dance -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Nonfiction films.
Documentary television programs.
Documentary films.
Cross-cultural studies.
History.
Documentary television programs.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires télévisés.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author D'Amboise, Jacques, 1934-2021, dancer, commentator
Grauer, Rhoda, creator, commentator
Kylian, Jiri, 1947- dancer, commentator
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942- dancer, commentator
Tharp, Twyla, dancer, commentator
Trujillo, Raoul, dancer, commentator
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, production company
Home Vision (Firm), publisher
Public Media Incorporated (Wilmette, Ill.), production company
RM Arts (Firm), production company
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), production company
Other Titles Dance at court
Dance centerstage
Dancing in one world
Individual and tradition
Lord of the dance
New worlds, new forms
Power of dance
RM Arts presents dancing
Sex and social dance