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From Shore to Shore - Retrospective Reels
1988 | 52mins
From Shore to Shore - Retrospective Reels
1988 | 52mins
Beginning in April 1988, a number of oral histories and Irish traditional music and dance performances were videotaped for the documentary From Shore To Shore: Irish Traditional…
Steppin‘
1992 | 55mins
Steppin‘
1992 | 55mins
Introduces viewers to the step show, an exciting dance style popular today among black fraternities and sororities. In addition to many rousing, crowd-pleasing performances, the…
Medicine Fiddle
1991 | 1h 21mins
Medicine Fiddle
1991 | 1h 21mins
Fiddlers and dancers from Native and Metis families of the northern United States and Canada carry on the musical traditions passed down from early settlers. The film weaves…
Flight of the Dove
1989 | 29mins
Flight of the Dove
1989 | 29mins
A portrait of the Portuguese-American dairy-farming community in the Chino Valley of southern California. This is one of the first films ever to document the experiences and…
Plenty of Good Women Dancers
2004 | 53mins
Plenty of Good Women Dancers
2004 | 53mins
“Plenty of Good Women Dancers” features exceptional Philadelphia African American women tap dancers whose active careers spanned the 1920s-1950s.
Every Island has its Own Songs
1988 | 27mins
Every Island has its Own Songs
1988 | 27mins
Nikitas Tsimouris (1924 - 2001) brought the complex music of the tsabouna, a type of Greek bagpipe, to Tarpon Springs. In 1991, Tsimouris became the first Floridian to receive a…
Step It Up and Go
1989 | 59mins
Step It Up and Go
1989 | 59mins
Traces the development of blues music in the Carolinas through interviews with musicians and still photographs.
Sitting On Top of the World at the Fiddlers‘ Convention
1974 | 24mins
Sitting On Top of the World at the Fiddlers‘ Convention
1974 | 24mins
The fiddlers' convention at Union Grove is the oldest bluegrass music festival of the U.S., held on the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. This film…
Miami Indian Powwow
1998 | 26mins
Miami Indian Powwow
1998 | 26mins
The powwow has become one of the most recognizable forms of Native American celebration today, and occurs in virtually every state in the U.S. But despite the many similarities…
Stepping
1998 | 16mins
Stepping
1998 | 16mins
This film explores the tradition of African American stepping, primarily among college men and women. Dance forms, chants, songs and social functions of this tradition serve as…
Charlie‘s Place
2018 | 26mins
Charlie‘s Place
2018 | 26mins
Charlie’s Place, tells the story of an African American nightclub in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina that was a significant stop on the Chitlin’ Circuit in the segregated South. The…
Clog Dance
1959 | 15mins
Clog Dance
1959 | 15mins
“An impromptu expression of enjoyment” - the revival of clog dancing in Portmadog, North Wales England and of the craft of clog-making.
Mountain Talk
2003 | 56mins
Mountain Talk
2003 | 56mins
Language and Life in Southern Appalachia – The people of Southern Appalachia survived for centuries in a rugged and remote landscape. Their historic isolation promoted the…
LaVaughn Robinson
2003 | 29mins
LaVaughn Robinson
2003 | 29mins
LaVaughn Robinson, a National Heritage Fellowship award winner, was a tap-dance virtuoso on the big-band circuit in the 1940s and ’50s who became a master teacher and a major…
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