Alternate Title DBA

Production Language English

Country of Origin United States

Description A landmark dance festival celebrating over 300 years of black dance in America.

Identifier 1983s.01321

VenueOpera House

choreographerBaba Chuck Davis, Asadata Dafora, Garth Fagan, Talley Beatty, Eleo Pomare, Alvin Ailey, Katherine Dunham, Alyo Tolbert, Rod Rodgers, Blondell Cummings, Gene Hill Sagan, Dianne McIntyre, Louis Johnson, Arthur Hall, Lenwood Sloan

companyCharles Moore Dance Theatre, Chuck Davis Dance Company, Arthur Hall's Afro American Dance Ensemble, Eleo Pomare Dance Company, Mama Lu Parks' Traditional Jazz and Lindy Dancers, Roxy's Solar Rollers, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Rock Steady Crew, Bucket Dance Theatre, Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago, Rod Rodgers Dance Company, The Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco), Rudy Stevenson Band, Jazzy Double Dutch Jumpers

composerRalph MacDonald, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Billy Strayhorn

contributorFlorence Waren, Talley Beatty

costume designerCatti, Garth Fagan, Normand Maxon, Eleo Pomare, Ves Harper, Vicki Atkinson, Gene Hill Sagan

dancerEleo Pomare, Dudley Williams, Rod Rodgers, Luis Martinez, Blondell Cummings, Dianne McIntyre, Leon Jackson, Halifu Osumare, Al Perryman, Charles Moore, Mama Ella Thompson Moore, Ramona Candy

lighting designerDonald Moss, Nicola Cernovitch, Stephanie Johnson

musical directorRudy Stevenson, James Miller, Harold Roberts

musicianCarl Riley, Willie White, Louis Celestin, Jean Alphonse, Ron McBee, Anthony Moore, Baba Chief Bey, Rudy Stevenson, Mosheh Milon, Dejan's Olympia Brass Band of New Orleans

singerMiriam Burton, Ruth Brisbane, Fab 5 Freddy

songwriterDuke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn

speakerNana Yao Opare Dinizulu, Baba Joe Nash, John Szwed, Albert Opoku, Baba Chuck Davis, Leonard Goines, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mama Pearl Primus, Carol Kulig, Sally Sommer, Ernie Smith, Marta Vega, Rene Lopez, Lavinia Williams, Robert F. Thompson, Vévé Clark, Charles Moore, Pearl Reynolds, Glory Van Scott, Jelon Vieira, Lenwood Sloan, Helen Armstead Johnson, Henry Samson, Sally Banes, Honi Coles, Brenda Dixon-Stowell, Zita Allen, Carmen De Lavallade, George Faison, Bill T. Jones, Donald McKayle, Eleo Pomare, Baba Obara Wali Rahman Ndiaye, Baba Chief Bey, Ladji Camara, William Moore, Sali Ann Kriegsman, Julinda Lewis, Larry Phillips, Rod Rogers, James Briggs Murray, Mura Dehn

top billingCharles Moore Dance Theatre, Chuck Davis Dance Company, Fab 5 Freddy, Arthur Hall's Afro American Dance Ensemble, Baba Chuck Davis, Eleo Pomare Dance Company, Mama Lu Parks' Traditional Jazz and Lindy Dancers, Roxy's Solar Rollers, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Rock Steady Crew, Bucket Dance Theatre, Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago, Rod Rodgers Dance Company, The Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco), Rudy Stevenson Band, Jazzy Double Dutch Jumpers