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Films
3 Films
with a digital version available
x
Keywords
“Dance Theatre Performance”
and
“MusicEthnomusicology”
x
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
x
films with a digital version
3
x
Region
Middle and Near East
1
South America
1
South-East Asia
1
Southern Africa
1
Country
Afghanistan
1
Angola
1
Brazil
1
Indonesia
1
Keywords
Dance / Theatre / Performance
3
x
Festivals / Carnival
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
3
Directors
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Baily, John
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Series
not set
3
Country of production
Brazil
1
South Africa
1
United Kingdom
3
x
Year of production
1983
1
1988
1
2014
1
Film list
Body Games – Capoeira and Ancestry
2014
87
‘
Student
Directed by
Richard Pakleppa
Matthias Röhrig Assunção
Christine Dettmann
.
The film follows master Cobra Mansa and his friends in the search for the African roots of the Brazilian martial art Capoeira. A powerful myth links Capoeira to a legendary Angolan game called Engolo
South America
Southern Africa
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Music / Ethnomusicology
Festivals / Carnival
Herat Films: The Annual Cycle of Music in Herat
1983
54
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
These videos were edited from seven hours of Super 8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and
Middle and Near East
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Music / Ethnomusicology
Sundanese Culture Alive
1988
46
‘
Directed by
Jean Hellwig
.
Jaipongan is a new style of music and dancing which was ‘invented’ about a decade ago on Western Java, Indonesia. Drawing on more classical Javanese music and taking elements from Japanese and
South-East Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Dance / Theatre / Performance