LEADER 00000ngm a2200565Ka 4500 001 755013034 003 OCoLC 005 20110929105921.0 007 vf ccahru 008 110929s1991 xxu028 vleng 035 (PFA-FILM)20519 040 CUY|beng|cCUY 245 00 Alive from off center.|n[No. 705]|h[videorecording] / |cKTCA, Saint Paul, Minn. 257 United States. 260 Saint Paul, Minn. :|bKCTA/Video :|bTwin Cities Public Television,|cc1991. 300 1 videocassette of 1 (28 min.) (U-matic NTSC) :|bsd., col. ;|c3/4 in. 500 Copyright notice: c1991 Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. 505 0 Contenders / Oberhaus Films ; produced and directed by Mark Oberhaus ; choreographed by Susan Marshall ; music composed by Pauline Oliveros ; director of photography, Gary Steele ; editor, Chris Fiore ; performers, Susan Marshall and Company (14 min.) -- Dinizulu and his African dancers, drummers and singers / produced, directed and edited by Skip Blumberg ; director of photography, Bill Marpet (12 min.) 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only.|5CBPF. 520 "In Ms. Marshall's 'Contenders,' Mark Obenhaus moves back and forth between a high school gymnasium, shot in color and a pink-toned black and white, and a void in which the dancers seem to be moving through a dream. He isolates individual dancers and parts of their bodies for an episodic look that doesn't give much sense of the dance as a linear whole. This is, in effect, a reworking of the dance for film. The dancers are runners, moving to a score by Pauline Oliveros that mixes bits of bright, shimmering accordion music with the sound of a starter's gun and the distant roar of a crowd. Stretching, falling, racing slowly and briefly into one anothers' arms, they inhabit a lonely world that suggests the final dreamlike run in the film 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. The Dinizulu segment is a vivid and valuable record of the late Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu, the founder of the company in 1947, and of the impressive work the troupe has done in popularizing African dance and social history in this country. Several signature works of the company are preserved here, including 'Gome, a Ghanaian square drum solo performed by Kimati Dinizulu, and 'Gum Boot,' a South African miners' dance, each of which would fit into any program of post-modernist dance comfortably. The pieces, danced to traditional music, also include 'Adzabo,' a Ghanaian harvest dance for women that is filled with subtle rhythmic shifts and accents, and 'Liwa Weche,' a song from the Congo, sung by Nyota Salama, in which a woman mourns her husband's death in the mines"--New York Times, August 19, 1991. 538 U-matic NTSC. 650 0 Modern dance. 650 0 Dance|zAfrica. 655 7 Television.|2mim 655 7 Series.|2mim 655 7 Dance.|2mim 655 7 Music.|2mim 700 1 Obenhaus, Mark,|edirection,|eproduction. 700 1 Blumberg, Skip,|edirection,|eproduction,|eediting. 700 1 Steele, Gary,|ecamera/lighting. 700 1 Marpet, Bill,|ecamera/lighting. 700 1 Oliveros, Pauline,|d1932-2016|emusic. 700 1 Fiore, Chris,|eediting. 700 1 Marshall, Susan,|d1958-|echoreography. 700 1 Dinizulu, Gus,|d1930-1991,|echoreography. 710 2 KTCA-TV (Television station : Saint Paul, Minn.) 710 2 Susan Marshall and Company. 710 2 Dinizulu. 710 2 Obenhaus Films (New York, N.Y.) 740 02 Contenders. 740 02 Dinizulu. 941 0 PFA 0750-01-8077. PFA collection acquisition gift of D0142 1996/11/01 946 PFA 0750-01-8077. INV record created 2009/12/04 by sw; MIN record created 2011/09/28 by sw. 956 20110928|bpfsw 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20170108 994 C0|bCUY