Ballet Black - ACE161.7

Tony Johnson, Richie Riley and John Lagey dancing at reunion. Original company members at reunion posed for group photograph. Danish programme for Ballets Nègres production, Aggrey (1946). Legs of two dancers, one wearing white, one wearing black, in Aggrey. Musical manuscripts. VO says that each ballet had its own rhythm and that the lead drummer always followed the soloist. Bare feet stepping a rhythm. Bare back being moved in rhythm. Leonard Salzedo VO points out that African music is absolutely "metronomic" in its time-keeping. Legs moving in rhythm. VO continues about very strict pattern in West Indian music. Head and neck moving in rhythm.