Badenya '98, Keba Bobo Cissoko: a tribute to Samory Turay and his time; a festival of oral tradition, music, and dance of West Africa

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Title
Badenya '98, Keba Bobo Cissoko: a tribute to Samory Turay and his time; a festival of oral tradition, music, and dance of West Africa
Names
Cissoko, Keba. (Performer)
Van Buren, Tom. (Speaker)
Kamara, Kewulay. (Speaker)
Lee, Violet. (Lighting designer)
Niang, Mamadou (Videographer)
Center for Traditional Music and Dance (New York, N.Y.) (Associated name)
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Theater. (Event place)
New York Public Library. Dance Collection (Associated name)
National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (Associated name)
Badenya '98 (Festival) (Associated name)
Collection

African Dance Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1998-05-30
Table of Contents
Kelefaba, the first Kora tune.
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2456
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 9-5834 cassette one (former)
Topics
Kora music
Genres
Music
Notes
Statement of responsibility: presented by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in collaboration with the Badenya Organizing Committee ; concept design, organizing committee chair and master of ceremonies, Kewulay Kamara ; project director, Tom van Buren.
Statement of responsibility: This performance was videotaped by the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library with the cooperation of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Badenya Organizing Committee, Mamadou Niang, John Jay College Theater, The City University of New York.
Creation/production credits: Badenya Organizing Committee: chair, Kewulay Kamara, and Sherrif Ceesay, Babou Kassé, Mamadou Niang, Mahamadou Salieu Suso ; Center for Traditional Music and Dance, artistic and executive director, Ethel Raim ; sound, Douglas Rice ; lighting, Violet Lee.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at John Jay College Theater, The City University of New York, New York, on May 30, 1998. Video production: director, Mamadou Niang ; cameras, Ghasem Ebrahimian, Mark Braverman ; editing, François Bernadi.
Funding: This project was made possible by a grant from the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), a program under the umbrella SAVE AS: DANCE, underwritten by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Funding: The assistance of New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (Betacam SP) (9 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Description
Instrumental and vocal work featuring the kora, a stringed instrument ; no dance content.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14090284
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9376ae10-e87f-0131-f82b-3c075448cc4b
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Badenya '98, Keba Bobo Cissoko" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1998. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/983295a0-e87f-0131-5fcf-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Badenya '98, Keba Bobo Cissoko" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 29, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/983295a0-e87f-0131-5fcf-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1998). Badenya '98, Keba Bobo Cissoko Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/983295a0-e87f-0131-5fcf-3c075448cc4b

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