Carmen & Geoffrey (2005)

This intimate documentary follows careers of two remarkable personalities: Carmen de Lavallade, a dynamic dancer and choreographer from California who moved to New York with Alvin Ailey and began a legacy of modern dance in America, and her husband Geoffrey Holder, a Trinidad-born choreographer, set and costume designer, painter and man about town with productions such as The Wiz. Features interviews and performance footage of friends and colleagues: dancers Judith Jamison, Gus Solomons, Jr., Dudley Williams, Ulysses Dove and Alvin Ailey.

80 minDocumentary

Directors

Linda Atkinson, Nick Doob

Cast

Carmen De Lavallade (as Carmen De Lavallade), Geoffrey Holder (as Geoffrey Holder), Alvin Ailey (as Alvin Ailey), Josephine Baker (as Josephine Baker), Clifton Brown (as Clifton Brown), Janet Collins (as Janet Collins), Ulysses Dove (as Ulysses Dove), Jennifer Dunning (as Jennifer Dunning), Ann Duquesnay (as Ann Duquesnay), Carl Hall (as Carl Hall), Ira Hawkins (as Ira Hawkins), Boscoe Holder