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Spirit Moves Part 1
Jazz Dance from the Turn of the Century to 1950
Filmed at the Savoy Ballroom of Harlem in the 1950s, Part 1 features demonstrations of ragtime and jazz dances by well-known artists at the Savoy including James Berry, Pepsi Bethel, Teddy Brown, Sandra Gibson, Leon James, Al Minns and Frankie Manning. Dances include the Cakewalk, Charleston, Black Bottom, Susie Q, Shake Blues, Gutbucket Blues, Trunky Doo, Big Apple and some aerial Lindy Hop.
The Spirit Moves a rare 2-hour film documentary is the most extensive video encyclopedia of African American social dance from 1900 to the 1980s. The Spirit Moves traces the evolution of African American dance in urban America. It was created over a period of thirty years by Mura Dehn, a European filmmaker who recognized and recorded the vital contribution of African American dance to the Jazz scene. She produced, directed, edited, and narrated this valuable film. Shown with its original editing, this DVD contains the only footage of this kind still in existence. The Spirit Moves provides a living history of the men and women who forged American social dance styles into an improvisational art form.
DVD, 45 min., 2008
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Spirit Moves Part 1