About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items The lindy

The lindy: Tom Lewis

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

  • Choregraphie
  • A long minuet as danced at Bath
  • Sketchbook
  • Sarah Bernhardt's farewell American tour
  • Scrapbook documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French
  • The dance score
  • Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse
  • Sketchbook
  • Coreografie per ballabili d'opera
  • Caricature of Sergeĭ Dyagilev
  • La sténochorégraphie
  • Ehon Tsūhōshi
  • Le maître a danser
  • America
  • Costume designs for the ballet La Pastorella Svizzera
Previous Next

COLLECTION
General Dance Video Archive

This Item

View this item elsewhere:

Title
The lindy: Tom Lewis
Names
Lewis, Tom (Dancer)
Batiuchok, Margaret (Dancer)
Lloyd, George (Dancer)
Meade, Charlie (Dancer)
Manning, Frankie (Dancer)
Sorensen, Jesper (Videographer)
Young, Donald (Videographer)
Kienhuis, Ronald (Videographer)
Winding, Vibeke (Videographer)
Cat Club (New York, N.Y.) (Presenter)
CodanceCo (Presenter)
Batiuchok, Margaret (Interviewer)
Lewis, Tom (Interviewee)
Collection

General Dance Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1987-12 - 1988-01
Table of Contents
CONTENTS. - Reel 1 (approx. 63 min.): Introduction by Margaret Batiuchok. In an interview/demonstration recorded in the studio (approx. 52 min.), Tom Lewis and Batiuchok dance the lindy; Lewis explains and demonstrates its steps and the use of syncopations. He tells Batiuchok, with whom he has studied, how he began dancing; discusses the qualities of a good lindy dancer; and comments on different styles of performing the lindy. Improvised dance performance at the Cat Club (approx. 9 min.), recorded at CodanceCo's Gotta-dance Gotta-pay-the-rent Ball. Danced by Batiuchok, George Lloyd, Lewis, and Frank Manning, accompanied by the Loren Schoenberg Big Band. Brief footage of Batiuchok dancing with Lloyd and Meade in the studio. - Reel 2 (approx. 49 min. total). Repetition of part of the Cat Club footage, and of Batiuchok dancing with Lloyd and Meade (approx. 4 min.). Scenes of dancing at the Cat Club and the North River Bar, recorded on different occasions (approx. 45 min.). Among the dancers who appear are Batiuchok, Lewis, Lloyd, Meade, and Dawn Hampton.
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2021
Topics
Lindy (Dance)
Swing (Dance)
Genres
Filmed dance
Interviews
Notes
Content: Part 4 of a four-part series subtitled Videotapes recorded December 1987-January 1988 for a master's thesis project by Margaret Batiuchok. Videographer: Donald Young. Improvised dance performance at the Cat Club, New York, videotaped on March 21, 1988, by Ronald Kienhuis. Additional footage of Margaret Batiuchok, George Lloyd, Charlie Meade, and/or others videotaped by Vibeke Winding and Jesper Sorensen. Other videotapes in this series are: *MGZIC 9-2617 The lindy: Frank Manning, *MGZIC 9-2615 The lindy: George Lloyd, and *MGZIC 9-2616 The lindy: Charlie Meade. For Batiuchok's master's thesis, see: *MGW 90-9604 Batiuchok, Margaret. The lindy.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 2 videocassettes (U-matic) (112 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12169976
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8ca5b9f0-6f2b-0131-5189-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1987: Created (Approximate)
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "The lindy" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1987 - 1988. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8f288f40-6f2b-0131-ed3e-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "The lindy" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 27, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8f288f40-6f2b-0131-ed3e-3c075448cc4b

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1987 - 1988). The lindy Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8f288f40-6f2b-0131-ed3e-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8f288f40-6f2b-0131-ed3e-3c075448cc4b | title= (moving image) The lindy, (1987 - 1988)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=November 27, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

The lindy