| Dance on Video: Media Resources Center UCB (12679 words) |
 | Documents a four-day festival of dancers and dance companies held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.Celebrates the evolution of fl dance from the sly parody of plantation quadrilles known at the Cakewalk to the contemporary sophistication of the Alvin Ailey.Narrated by Geoffrey Holder. |
| Faubion Bowers discusses the 18th century Kabuki dance, The salt gatherer, as the famous Kabuki actor Baiko VII performs the dance which is based on a Noh drama about a simple local girl who loves a court noble during his exile to a remote island and her subsequent abandonment. |
| Dances include a celebrated invocation "of auspicious beginnings" from South India; a south Indian dance to a religious song; and a North Indian dance of great antiquity that came from Hindu tradition but was adapted by the Moslem culture and spread from Spain to China. |
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