From: Judy Pritchett (jazzdance@savoystyle.com)
Date: Wed May 09 2001 - 21:10:29 PDT
NOW ON VIDEO!! Rare archival film material, formerly only
available for viewing at the Smithsonian and the Lincoln Center
Library of Performing Arts:
"THE SPIRIT MOVES"
Filmed in the early 1950's by Mura Dehn, these videos document
jazz dance steps and styles from 1900, with special focus on the
social dances of the Savoy Ballroom of Harlem.
Dances and steps include:
Strut...Cakewalk...Charleston...Lindy Hop... Aerial Lindy...
Susie-Q...Snake Hips...Black Bottom....Fish Tail...Shake Blues
...Gutbucket blues...Trunky Doo...Boogie-Woogie...Shimmy...
Calypso...Apple Jack...Mambo
http://www.swingdanceshop.com/spirmovbymur.html
Also available on video:
VINTAGE JAZZ CLASSICS SERIES $19.95 each
Videos featuring rare film footage of the great jazz artists of
the early to middle 20th century:
Duke Ellington...Count Basie...Bessie Smith... Louis Armstrong
Louis Jordan...Nat "King" Cole...Mills Brothers...Fats Waller...
Cab Calloway...Bill "Bojangles" Robinson... Lena Horne...more!
http://www.swingdanceshop.com/jazzclassics.html
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