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  [The 90’s raw: Seville dancers]

  International, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning TV series The 90’s. Footage of people dancing in traditional outfits in Sevilla [Seville], Spain.

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  For A Moment You Fly: The Big Apple Circus

  American Way, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Video Makers Choice

  Documentary about a small, non-traveling circus in New York City called the Big Apple Circus. The circus features many human performers including acrobats, jugglers, tumblers, etc, but no animals. The performers talk about how much they love performing in the circus, especially this one. Movement and precision acrobatics help make this tape more than just a document about people, but more of a sensory portrait of the feel of a circus.

• Anzanga Marimba And Dance Ensemble

  Uncategorized

  This tape is an episode of “This Town’s Talent”, a program that appears to be produced for a local PBS or cable-access station. This episode features The Anzanga Marimba and Dance Ensemble, a group that performs traditional and contemporary African music using mostly marimbas, a type of African xylophone. The group performs five or six songs, and then ends the show with a traditional African dance. While the music and dancing are good, the show is hampered by its low (i.e. cable-access-ish) production values.

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  Image Union, episode 0513

  Image Union

  Image Union episode featuring “Dance in Silence” by Annette Barbier. Color video. A piece that documents a dance program for hearing-impaired young adults. It follows the dance troupe from rehearsals to their final performance.

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  The Good War

  American Way, NHPRC, Performance, Studs Terkel, War and Peace

  Prologue Theatre’s 1991 musical production of Studs Terkel’s award-winning “The Good War.” Using a simple set and minimal props, the cast evokes myriad characters whose monologues voice the different perspectives of those alive during World War II, including American soldiers, German soldiers, nurses, teenagers, Japanese civilians, and scientists.

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  New Dance

  Uncategorized

  Compilation tape of various dance pieces produced by Skip Blumberg in 1986.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: House O’Matics #1]

  Black, Chicago, Chicago Slices

  This video contains raw footage for the television show “Chicago Slices.” Camcorder Correspondent Brigid Murphy attends a House O’Matics dance crew performance in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago.