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  1. Ballets Russes (2006)

    Director
    Dayna Goldfine; Daniel Geller
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

    The film charts the histories of the Massine and de Basil Ballets Russes companies from the 1930s onwards, seen through the eyes of the dancers who were still alive when the film was made (several have since...

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  2. Surviving Chau (2006)

    Director
    Mainak Bhaumik
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance; Development studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 50 minutes), $195.00

    This documentary maps the evolution of the ancient ethnic dance form of Chau - an athletic dance of India done by men in masks - from an anthropological and sociological perspective. In addition to following...

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  3. Dance Composition Basics (2006)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £29.00

    A book and DVD package on dance creation, featuring selected portions of original dance compositions by two noted choreographers. The works of Alonzo King (Chants and Dreamer) and Dwight Rhoden (Verge) are...

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  4. In Search of the Hamat’Sa: A Tale of Headhunting (2006)

    Director
    Aaron Glass
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 33 minutes), £50.00

    Produced in the Program for Culture and Media at New York University, The Hamat’sa (or "Cannibal Dance") is the most important and widely known ceremony of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British...

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  5. Movers & Shakers 2: Russell Maliphant- Gathering Information (2005)

    Director
    Steve Jackman
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £23.00

    Film-maker Steve Jackman followed Russell Maliphant and Company as they create a commission for the Barbican in 2004; it shows the process of collaboration between the choreographer and his dancers, lighting...

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  6. Pas d’Acier, Le, 1925 (2005)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, unknown), £24.99

    A source based recreation of Serge Prokofiev and Georgi Yakoulov’s 1925 machine age ballet. Originally choreographed by Léonide Massine, the choreography and staging is here by Millicent Hodson and...

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  7. Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation - Catherine Wheel (2005)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £17.99

    A video version of the Broadway production refashioned for television, using an assortment of spectacular visual techniques. A collaborative work between TwylaTharp and David Byrne (of The Talking Heads),...

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  8. Flesh & Blood/Double Take (2005)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £23.99

    A double bill of two British modern dance classics. To celebrate twenty years of choreography, 1984 - 2004, Lea Anderson, with The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs, presented a unique reworking of...

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  9. Period Movement: Early and Late Renaissance (2005 Video)

    aka: Period Movement for Actors

    Director
    Judith Chaffee; Joel Asher
    Producer
    Joel Asher
    Subject
    Dance; Drama

    Judith Chaffee conducts a workshop with students on movement for period plays. Working with scenes from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and such dances as the pavanne from the early Renaissance and the...

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  10. IlÉ AiyÉ (The House of Life) (2004)

    aka: House of Life, The

    Director
    David Byrne
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies; Music; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £17.99

    An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...

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