Video
New Dance Group Gala Historical Concert: Retrospective 1930s-1970s
The mid-20th century period of dance, while not so long ago, produced many fascinating and artistically significant dances worthy of meticulous preservation. Members of The New Dance Group were idealistic artistic innovators that aimed to make dance a viable statement about the social injustices of the world. This DVD presents some of the most influential modern dance pioneers’ legendary work and pays heed their message of social consciousness. This beautiful survey presents 18 celebrated, recreated dances and excerpts originally performed by The New Dance Group. This celebratory concert is a testament to the dance personalities that made a difference, but whose works have been largely unavailable for viewing until now. The Gala Concert presents the original choreographers or their artistic heirs, together with talented professional dancers in a program of influential and compelling works. Produced by the American Dance Guild in June 1993, it includes mini-interviews with the choreographers.
Choreographers included are Mary Anthony, Eve Gentry, Ronnie Aul, Talley Beatty, Valerie Bettis, Charles Weidman, Pearl Primus, Joseph Gifford, Hadassah, Jane Dudley, Irving Burton, Donald McKayle, Jean Erdman, Anna Sokolow, Daniel Nagrin, Joyce Trisler, Sophie Maslow.
Price: $59.95
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The online streaming version is available for purchase through Dancetime Publications.
Book
Branching Out: Oral Histories of the Founders of Six National Dance Organizations
Have your read our book?
“Branching Out: Oral Histories of the Founders of Six National Dance Organizations” was written by Margot C. Lehman and Marilynn Danitz (both former ADG Presidents) and Katja Pylyshenko Kolcio.
“Branching Out was an excellent choice for my course ‘Philosophy and Criticism of Dance’. I will continue to tell others about this wonderful and most valuable source.”
-Chrystelle Trump Bond, Professor of Dance, Founding Chair of the Dance Department of Goucher College in Towson, Maryland
“Branching Out” tells the stories of the Guild and the organizations that emerged from it through interviews with the radical educators and artists who founded these seminal associations.
American Dance Guild: Lucile Brahms Nathanson, Bonnie Bird, Bernice Rosen, Joseph Gifford, Carole I. Binswanger, Fannie Isquith, Erna Caplow Lindner, Carolyn Bilderback.
American Dance Therapy Association: Marian Chace, Catherine Hamilton Pasternak, Sharon Chaiklin, Claire Schmai, Beth Kalish-Weiss.
American College Dance Festival Association: Lydia Joel, Jeanne hays Beaman, Adam A. Pinsker.
Dance Critics Association: Marcia B. Siegel, Deborah Joweitt
Congress on Research in Dance: Patricia A. Rowe, Jennette S. Roosevelt, Binnie Nird & Lucille Nathanson
Society of Dance History Scholars: Constance Kreemer, Selma Jeanne Cohen, Genevieve Oswald, Jeanette S. Roosevelt.
These stories make our dance history human. They’ll keep you reading. Like eating potato chips, once you start, you can’t stop. Who was the real force behind the Lincoln Center dance Collection? How did dance communicate to institutionalized schizophrenics? Where did you have to go to see dance in the early ’40s? Find the answers and much, much more.
Price: $25
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Periodical
Dance Scope Magazine
Purchase back order issues of “Dance Scope” Magazine, a dance magazine published by the American Dance Guild from 1965-1981. These journals are often used for research and information on dance history.
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