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Performance Video, Delacorte Theater, New York, 1978
This is a Performance video. It was company: Sounds In Motion/Dance Visions, Inc., New York, New York, founded 1972 and designed by Willi Smith and collaborator: Dianne McIntyre.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division as part of Willi Smith: Street Couture.
“Duke Ellington had a very specific idea for each section, and I felt it was very programmatic—in other words the music sounds just like what it is depicting. The dance is almost a visual portrait of the music.”
—Dianne McIntyre, dancer-choreographer
It is credited Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Willi Smith: Street Couture.
