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DANCING
SEPERATE JOURNEYS: Dances of:
Indians, Greek, Jewish, Hispanic
and Japanese heritages.
NUTCRACKER: THE MOTION PICTURE
w/Pacific Northwest Ballet.(1986)
DAME EDNA w/Chubby Checker.(1989)
1950's HIT PARADE. Time/Life ad.
DANCE CRAZY IN HOLLYWOOD.(1990)
Choreographer HERMES PAN. 1910-90.

2. DANCING: THE INDIVIDUAL & TRADITION.
(Last episode-2 Hrs. ea.)5/28/93

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►DANCE CRAZY IN HOLLYWOOD (A&E)
Choreographer Hermes Pan discusses his work
with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Shirley
MacLaine and Bob Fosse, among others, as he
introduces clips from some popular films,
including Kiss Me Kate.

DIRTY DANCING. Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey,
Cynthia Rhodes, Jerry Orbach. It's the summer of '63,
the time of their lives and the love story of your dreams. A naive
17-year-old girl and a handsome dance instructor make the
sparks fly at a Catskills resort. Electrifying dance sequences!
Color.(1987). 105 mins.

RAY KNIGHT (Old home Movies)
SAMMY DAVIS, Jr. On USA TODAY
WATCH ME MOVE. Docu. on
Blacks contributions to music
and dance. Archival clips.
☆☆☆GREGORY HINES'
Tap Dance in
America
w/Tommy Tune, Sandman Sims &
Hinton Battle. 5/19/89
THAT'S DANCING. (1985)
Toe-tapping relation to "That's
Entertainment", 20's thru 80's.
E.T.: DANCE CRAZES.
INSIDE ED.: Intvs. 2/12/91

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On a new PBS series, 18 countries full of dancing
Makes Me Feel Like Watching TV

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DANCING
People don't know how to watch dance.
"They sit there wondering what it's
about, trying to understand it," she said.
"They should be asking, 'What's in it for
me?' Until recently, of course, nobody
needed such a lesson. Throughout the
world, people traditionally have seen danc-
ing as inextricable from life's most impor-
tant moments. When Japanese court danc-
ers enact an elaborate ritual in honor of a
new emperor, they are upholding the im-
peratives of the social order; when the sam-
urai dance through a Brazilian Carnival,
they are celebrating their African
roots. But in this country, home of the
square dance and the Lindy Hop, where
millions of people dance like mad at parties
and weddings, many Americans hold fast
to the distinction between art and fun, the
serious and the social. For our skewed vi-
sion of dance, it's hard to think of a better
corrective than "Dancing," a four-part,
eight-hour PBS series beginning this week.
Filmed on location in 18 countries,
"Dancing" investigates not styles or stars
but ideas: dance as religion, dance at court,
dance as the product of colliding cultures.
The third program, for instance, "Sex and
Social Dance," moves among different cul-
tures to show how each conveys lessons in
morals and behavior through formal social
dancing. While kids in the Cook Islands
grin and wiggle as they dance in joyful
groups, their counterparts in Connecticut
wear white gloves and belabor the waltz
without a trace of rhythm or spontaneity.
For many viewers, the surprise of this
series may be the relatively scant attention
it pays to dance as most fans know it best—
ballet and modern, onstage. "It's an honest
reflection of how much dance in the world
is modern and ballet," says executive pro-
ducer Rhoda Grauer. "Not much." Ballet
shows up most prominently in "Dance Cen-terstage," where the Kirov Ballet in
St. Petersburg shares the hour with Ja-pan's gorgeous and meticulous dance-dra-ma, Kabuki. As the show moves back and
forth between the Kirov and Kabuki, we
are constantly reminded of how both forms
are based on utterly weird stylistic devices
that gain enormous power in performance.
Modernism arrives front and center in
the last part of the series, with portraits of
such groundbreaking figures as Isadora
Duncan, George Balanchine and Martha
Graham. The most conventional show of
them all, this one gets a huge boost from the
use of rarely seen archival films. Several
unusual snippets offer a striking glimpse of
Katherine Dunham, who introduced Afri-can and Caribbean styles to the concert
stage beginning in the 1940s.
In conjunction with "Dancing," some 65
cities are showcasing their own companies
this spring and summer, most in free per-formances. Some of these local troupes—
Cambodian and Native American, among
others—are little-known even in their com-munities. "Everything in the series exists
right here," says Grauer. Maybe these are
the artists who will change our thinking
about dancing and ourselves.

Laura Shapiro

1. THE POWER OF DANCE (Debut) 5/7/93
GREAT PERFORMANCES: Rudolf Nureyev. 5/10/93
2. SEX & THE SOCIAL DANCE. 5/14/93
3. NEW WORLDS, NEW FORMS. 5/21/93