Shea Murphy, Jacqueline
Summary: During the past 30 years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this study of contemporary Native American dancing, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 SHESummary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AILSummary: For over three decades, there's been one singular sensation: A Chorus Line. This groundbreaking hit musical inspired by the emotional lives of dancers during the audition process. Now the story comes full circle and offers a revealing, unprecedented look at the auditions for the Broadway revival of the perennial classic. The music, the moves and the real-life drama, bringing you closer to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVESummary: Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANDurlacher, Ed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Devin-Adair Co. 1949
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 793.34 DURSummary: Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harrick, Joseph Stein, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS JERBorgerson, Janet
Summary: "This book presents a visually compelling collection of vintage dance record covers from the golden age of album cover design and discusses their contribution to the story of American identity"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain BorgersonBaldwin, Neil
Summary: "A biography of the legendary dancer and choreographer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA BALJowitt, Deborah
Summary: "In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique--primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body--that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA JOWFreeman, Bobby.
Contents: C'mon and swim, part one -- Do the monkey -- Good lovin' -- Ya, ya -- Speedo (The monkey man) -- I'll never fall in love again -- C'mon and swim, part two -- Walkin' the dog -- Work song -- Money -- That little old heartbreaker me -- S-W-I-M -- Come to me -- I'll never fall in love again -- Friends -- The duck -- Cross my heart -- Dance all night -- Ain't that lovin' you baby -- Every dog has...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FRESummary: In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAI RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HaSummary: "Based on director Bob Fosse's own extravagant life, this vibrant and spectacular film follows Fosse's alter ego. Joe Gideon in his relentless pursuit of sex, drugs and self-destruction. His womanizing both supports and debilitates him as he juggles his mistress, ex-wife and beloved daughter. Hovering over all of his excess is an angel. The proceedings are set amid rapturous dream sequences,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ALLSummary: "From the beginning, American dance has been an exciting fusion of many disparate influences, with European traditions of ballet and social dancing encountering Native American rituals and African American improvisations to create something new and extraordinary. In this landmark collection, dance critic Mindy Aloff brings together an astonishing array of writers--dancers and dance creators,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 DANMoby
Contents: CD 1 : Swear -- Snowball -- Blue paper -- Homeward angel (long) -- Chord sounds -- Not sensitive -- Lilly.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: San Sue strut (Casa Loma Orchestra) -- Mush mouth (Claude Hopkins) -- Lazy rhapsody (Duke Ellington) -- That blue-eyed baby from Memphis (Don Redman) -- The man from Harlem (Cab Calloway) -- Can you take it? (Fletcher Henderson) -- Let's get together (Chick Webb) -- Passionette (Teddy Hill) -- St. Louis wiggle rhythm (Blue Rhythm Band) -- Uproar shout (Erskine Hawkins) -- Remember (Red Norvo)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ NINSummary: From Baryshnikov to break dancing, from Fred and Ginger to Shirley and Bojangles, from movement depicted on Grecian urns to the kaleidoscopic pizzazz of Busby Berkely spectaculars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THAPowell, Dirk.
Contents: Lord, I used to know 150 songs by heart -- Waterbound -- Goin' where I've never been before -- Mother's little children -- Prettiest little girl in the county -- An old love song, folk song ... -- Texas bells -- My love lies in the ground -- Honey babe Police -- You used to play that Cindy ... -- Sally Ann -- Wish I had a dollar -- ZZollie's retreat -- Handsome Molly -- That's a good little...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records Corp. 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PowSantigold
Summary: Spiritualsis Santigold's first full-length album since 2016's99¢,andwasmostlyrecorded during the 2020 lockdown. "All of a sudden thereI was with three small children out of school-just-turned-two-year-oldtwins and a six-year-old-I was cooking, cleaning, doing laundry andchanging diapers from morning to night, with three little kids coming inand out of my bed throughout each night like...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Jerk Records 2022
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK SANSummary: Crossroads in Cowtown explores a period in country music history when genres were being bent and boundaries smashed. Focusing on "western" music, either produced in or influenced by Californian studios and artists of the fifties, this compilation delves into the classic hillbilly sounds of the period and revels in the oddities created when disparate styles collide in the search for commercial...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Future Noise Music 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CROLemonade (Musical group)
Summary: Originally from San Francisco but now based in Brooklyn, the trio released their self titled debut album through Rob da Bank's Sunday Best Recordings on 14th September 2009. Lemonade became a firm fixture on San Francisco's underground, playing everything from basement shows to warehouses, dance clubs to DIY venues, art galleries to rooftops, where their eruptive and exhilarating live...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sunday Best Recordings 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC LEMChainsmokers (Musical group)
Summary: Grammy Award-winning artist/producer duo The Chainsmokers have released their brand new full-length album, World War Joy. The album features incredible collaborations with 5 Seconds of Summer, Amy Shark, Kygo, Blink-182, Bebe Rexha and more. The Chainsmokers have incredible achievements in Australia including GOLD, PLATINUM and MULTI-PLATINUM status across a number of releases, including 2016's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHAContents: Sail away lady (Uncle Bunt Stephens).--The wild wagoner (Jilson Setters).--Wake up Jacob (Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers).--La danseuse (Dalma Lachney, Blind Uncle Gaspard).--Georgia stomp (Andrew and Jim Baxter).--Brillancy medley (Eck Robertson).--Indian war whoop (Hoyt Ming & his Pep-Steppers).--Old country stomp (Henry Thomas).--Old dog Blue (Jim Jackson).--Saut crapaud (Columbus...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways/Sony Music Special Products 1997
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK ANTSummary: In the depths of the Great Depression, a ragged group of Hollywood hopefuls are drawn together in a bizzare dance marathon, hoping desperately to be spotted by a casting agent, or at least win a shot at the cash prize of $1,500.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Fox Video 1996