Mon, Mar 7, 1960
Martha Myers and José Limón discuss the language of the dance. Movement, the basic element of the dancer's material with human emotion, is transformed into dance for one person, two dancers, and finally, a group, as José Limón and Pauline Koner, with Lucas Hoving, Betty Jones, Lucy Venable, Lola Huth, Harlan McCallum, Chester Wolenski, and Robert Powell perform Limón's ballet "There is a Time."
Mon, Mar 28, 1960
Geoffrey Holder discusses the significance of ethnic dance in the field of formal dance. He, Carmen de Lavallade and Julius Fields, Thelma Hill, Miriam Port, and Charles Saint-Amant perform Bele, a West Indian minuet, the voodoo dance Yanvalou, and Banda from the musical comedy House of flowers, in which Holder appears as Baron Samedi, Haitian god of Life and Death.