2001年6月,"舞在美国"推出了一个三小时的"Free to Dance"的系列节目,这个由非洲-美国舞蹈演员和编导们担纲的,作为美国艺术形式而演出的现代舞蹈在现代舞的发展历史上无疑是一个重要的里程碑,同时也被认为是现代舞演出史上的一个重要事件.这一节目被特别地制成影片而载入史册.由于时间的限制,只有这些舞蹈中的那些最主要的一部分才能被录入原版的系列片中.后来"舞在美国"与ADF(America Dancing Festival)"也就是"Free to Dance"的制作者联合推出了一个更完整而且额外加入了原先没有包含在原版系列片中的内容的舞蹈演出系列,其中尤其关注了几位先锋级舞蹈编导们,诸如Asodata Dafora,Katherine Dunham,Talley Beatty,Donald McKayle,Pearl Primus和Bill T. Jones的杰出成果.
本片(Dancing in the light)包括了上述六位编导从1932年至1989年之间的六个代表作品,并由ADF制成了影片.始于1934年ADF开始演出,讲授,宣传和促进了现代舞在美国以及在国际上的发展,这些舞蹈曾为570多位总理,首相等国家元首演出过.
希望本片能有助于人们了解这些具鲜明特色的现代舞作品以及其发展史.
"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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