舞蹈片(現代舞)Dance in America: Dancing in the Light (圖)

2001年6月,"舞在美國"推出了一個三小時的"Free to Dance"的係列節目,這個由非洲-美國舞蹈演員和編導們擔綱的,作為美國藝術形式而演出的現代舞蹈在現代舞的發展曆史上無疑是一個重要的裏程碑,同時也被認為是現代舞演出史上的一個重要事件.這一節目被特別地製成影片而載入史冊.由於時間的限製,隻有這些舞蹈中的那些最主要的一部分才能被錄入原版的係列片中.後來"舞在美國"與ADF(America Dancing Festival)"也就是"Free to Dance"的製作者聯合推出了一個更完整而且額外加入了原先沒有包含在原版係列片中的內容的舞蹈演出係列,其中尤其關注了幾位先鋒級舞蹈編導們,諸如Asodata Dafora,Katherine Dunham,Talley Beatty,Donald McKayle,Pearl Primus和Bill T. Jones的傑出成果.
本片(Dancing in the light)包括了上述六位編導從1932年至1989年之間的六個代表作品,並由ADF製成了影片.始於1934年ADF開始演出,講授,宣傳和促進了現代舞在美國以及在國際上的發展,這些舞蹈曾為570多位總理,首相等國家元首演出過.
希望本片能有助於人們了解這些具鮮明特色的現代舞作品以及其發展史.

"Awassa Astrige/Ostrich" (1932)
Choreography by Asadata Dafora
Music by Carl Riley
Performed by G. D. Harris, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
The dancer is transformed into a powerful bird in this groundbreaking solo work by Sierra Leone-born choreographer Asadata Dafora. In "Ostrich," Dafora, who immigrated to the United States in 1929, blended his choreographic vision of a traditional African dance with Western staging.

"Barrelhouse Blues" excerpt (1938)
Choreography by Katherine Dunham
Music by Jess Stacy
Performed by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
Anthropologist and choreographer Katherine Dunham set this concertized jazz piece that incorporates vernacular movement to the slow drag -- a couples dance common to juke joints and honky-tonks. The dancers' pelvis-to-pelvis bumping and grinding provoked John Martin, a leading dance critic of the time, to call it an "incredible vulgarity."

"Strange Fruit" (1943)
Choreography by Pearl Primus
Poem by Lewis Allan
Performed by Dawn Marie Watson, Philadanco
Portraying a woman's reaction to a lynching, the piece is set to the words of a poem of the same title written by Abel Meeropol, under the pseudonym Lewis Allan. Among her "social protest" dances that lamented poverty, racism, and savagery, Pearl Primus drew from her own environment for movement motifs and from the American scene, especially in the South.

"Mourner's Bench" from "Southern Landscape" (1947)
Choreography by Talley Beatty
Music by William L. Dawson
Performed by Jerome Stigler, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
"Mourner's Bench" is one of five dances that are part of "Southern Landscape," a work inspired by Howard Fast's book FREEDOM ROAD, which recounts a Southern black community's destruction during the Reconstruction era. The dancer performing on a "mourner's bench" recalls the pain of a life lost through racial violence.

"Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" (1959)
Choreography by Donald McKayle
Music arranged by Robert Decormier and Milton Okun
Performed by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
A commentary on the treatment of blacks in chain gangs in the South. Seven men, stripped to the waist, display the awful plight of men on the chain gang and how, in their desperation, they imagine and remember the solace of loved ones, represented by the solo woman in the dance.

"D-Man in the Waters" -- Section 1 (1989)
Choreography by Bill T. Jones
Music by Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Created in response to the AIDS crisis and dedicated to Demian Acquavella, a member of his dance company who was struggling against the disease, the work was inspired by a dream Bill T. Jones had in which he saw a huge body of water filled with his friends.

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