Arthur Hall - Ayo Ngozi interview
December 14, 1996
Camden, Maine
Five reel to reel 1/4" tapes recorded by Bruce Williams
Copied to digital by the
Special Collections Research Center
Temple University Libraries
Philadelphia, PA
Ayo Ngozi and Arthur Hall, December 14, 1996
BBWms photo
Listen to Tape #1
(21 MB - 16:23 created 2/2/2023)
Visual improv using Tape #1 as a sound track with images of Pearl Primus, Saka Acquaye,
Katherine Dunham, and others, along with paintings by Abbott Meader as an aid to
contemplation.
Listen to Tape #2
(44.3 MB - 33:22 created 2/2/2023)
Listen to Tape #3
(43.2 MB - 33:26 created 2/2/2023)
Listen to Tape #4
(42.4 MB - 33:28 created 2/2/2023)
Listen to Tape #5
(15.7 MB - 11:45 created 2/2/2023)
Two songs from Saka Acquaye is taken from the tail of Tape #5.
Includes images from the 1974 tour of Africa by the Afro-American Dance Ensemble
and the 1980 tour of the US by Saka Acquaye and Wulomei.
Ayo Ngozi and Arthur Hall, December 14, 1996
BBWms photo
Based on these recordings, see:
Ayodele Ngozi, To Bring Grandeur Back to Blackness: Arthur Hall's Afro-American Dance
Ensemble in the historical continuum of African dance performance in the United States
(1997, Graduate School Thesis, Cornell University, NY)
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