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American Tap Dance Orchestra at Dance Theater Workshop [television/video]
- Title
- American Tap Dance Orchestra at Dance Theater Workshop [Television/Video]
- Published/Created
- Genre
- Television/Video
- Abstract
- VHS imprint 1996. Videotaped in performance at Dance Theater Workshop's Bessie Schoenberg Theater, New York, in June 1996. Artistic director and choreographer Brenda Bufalino.
Danced by the American Tap Dance Orchestra: Brenda Bufalino with featured dancers Guillem Alonso, Sherry Eyster, Andrea Goodman, Margaret Morrison, Olivia Rosenkrantz, Declan Winstanley, and Tony Waag; and chorus Anke Frohlich, Ayodele Casel, Susan Hebach, Artis Mooney and Isabel Moros.
Guest artist/vocalist: Jay Clayton
Vocalists: Karen Goldfeder and Pat Tortorici.
Music played by Frank Kimbrough (piano) and Ben Allison (bass).
Cantata and the blues/choreography, monologues, and musical arrangements, Brenda Bufalino.
"Hit it" danced by Bufalino (solo) and tap ensemble
First cantata medley: "Impression of Mozart" danced by Bufalino
"A-train" music by Duke Ellington, danced by Bufalino
"Impressions of Bach" danced by Bufalino
"Buff loves Basie Blues" music inspired by Count Basie, arr. by Bufalino and Darell Grant, danced by Guillem Alonso (solo) with tap ensemble
"In a Sentimental Mood" music by Ellington, Irving Mills and Manny Kurtz, danced by tap ensemble
"Buff Loves Basie Blues reprise" danced by tap ensemble. Second cantata medley
"Impressions of Clemente" danced by Bufalino (solo) and Declan Winstanley ([Irish step dancing] solo), with Andrea Goodman, Olivia Rosenkrantz, and Tony Waag
"Coolbird" music by Bufalino and Grant, danced by Goodman, Rosenkrantz, and Waag
"On a Clear Day" choreography and perfomance by Waag, music by Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner
Coolbird" reprise
"So That's Jazz Then"
"All Blues" music by Miles Davis, danced by tap ensemble
Pithecanthropus Erectus"
"Reincarnation of a Lovebird"
"Cell Block F" music by Mingus, danced by tap ensemble
"Gertrude's Nose" (world premiere)/tap dance oratorio: choreography, tap chants and text Brenda Bufalino; vocal arrangements, Jay Clayton; sound, Hank Fury/Gotham Sound.
- Source
- New York Public Library: CATNYP: Dance Collection: Tap Dancing. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015