Filmed at the landmark festival held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 1983, this exhilarating exploration of historic black and contemporary African American dance features performances by groups ranging from Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Th eatre to the exuberant Jazzy Double Dutch Jumpers. DVD includes: The Ostrich - by the Charles Moore Dance Theatre, Lenjen-Go/Mandiani - by the Chuck Davis Dance Company, Shango - by the Charles Moore Dance Theatre, Junkie - by Eleo Pomare, From Before - by Garth Fagan ’s Bucket Dance Theatre, an overview of Black Dance in America with Al Perryman as Earl " Snake Hips " Tucker, Lindy Hop - by Mama Lu Park ’s Jazz Dancers, Tap Dance - by the Bliss Harmonizers and Chuck Green, Break Dancing - by the Magnificent Force, Double Dutch Jump Rope - by the Jazzy Double Dutch Jumpers, and Fontessa and Friends - performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker; narrator Geoffrey Holder. See also vhs, AT # 80712. Pennebaker Associates, Inc.