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Film, Video Katherine Dunham on the Circle of Energy

About this Item

Title

  • Katherine Dunham on the Circle of Energy

Created / Published

  • Library of Congress, September 2002

Headings

  • -  Dunham, Katherine -- Interviews
  • -  Dancers -- Interviews
  • -  Dance teachers -- Interviews
  • -  Choreographers -- Interviews
  • -  Dunham, Katherine -- Teachings
  • -  Ballet dancing -- Study and teaching
  • -  motion picture

Genre

  • motion picture

Notes

  • -  Vicky Risner, Executive Producer; Terry Carter, Producer/Director; Beate Glatved, Assistant to the Producer; Thomas Hurwitz, Director of Photography with funds from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to the Library of Congress for the documentation of Katherine Dunham’s dance technique.
  • -  In this series of clips recorded in September 2002, Katherine Dunham speaks about her influence on American dance; dance anthropology; her anthropological films; Shango; L'Ag'Ya; the Mazouk from L'Ag'Ya; the need for a Dunham Technique; breathing in Dunham Technique; the circle of energy; the concept of the "pole through the body" in Dunham Technique; the hand in Dunham Technique; the position of the arm in Dunham Technique; and the use of the foot in Dunham Technique.

Source Collection

  • Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection

Repository

  • Music Division

Digital Id

Online Format

  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Katherine Dunham on the Circle of Energy. Library of Congress, September, 2002. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200003847/.

APA citation style:

(2002) Katherine Dunham on the Circle of Energy. Library of Congress, September. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200003847/.

MLA citation style:

Katherine Dunham on the Circle of Energy. Library of Congress, September, 2002. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200003847/>.