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• Title:Njinga, the queen king : the return of a warrior / presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1993 Next Wave Festival, in association with the Pauline Oliveros Foundation Inc. ; written and directed by Ione.
  
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• Variant Title:Return of a warrior
  
• Related Title:Ancestral voices.
  Peak moments.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Ione, Carole, 1937- author director.
  Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-2016, composer.
  Sompa, Titos, arranger of music choreographer.
  Gato, Nego, arranger of music choreographer.
  Maynard, Valerie, set designer costume designer.
  Chappell, Carol, choreographer.
  Sompa, Biza, choreographer.
  Blu, lighting designer.
  Rush, Loren, 1935- sound designer.
  Brooklyn Academy of Music. Next Wave Festival.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Mode Records, 2010.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) audio-visualWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: M1520.O55 N5 2010 dvd
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Nzinga, Queen of Matamba, 1582-1663.
  Pageants.
  Masques with music.
  Angola--History.
  
• Genre/Form:Filmed performances.
  
• Description:1 videodisc (193 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  
• Terms governing use:Restrictions: Educational use and Personal use. http://copyright.ubc.ca/dvd-restrictions/
  
• Credits:Choreography and movement, Carol Chappell, Nego Gato, Biza Sompa, Titos Sompa ; fight choreography, Nego Gato ; original music and sound, Pauline Oliveros ; traditional Congolese music arranged by Titos Sompa ; traditional Brazilian music arranged by Nego Gato ; electro-acoustical design, Loren Rush ; scenery and costumes, Valerie Maynard ; lighting, Blu.
  
• Cast:Marie Guinier (old woman kilunda [spirit]), Gail Ward (Jinny), Adriene Walker (Grandma Jinny), M'bewe Escobar (child Njinga), Karen Miles (Kifungi), Amma Wilson (Kambu), Cynthia Oliver (Njinga kilunda), Fanni Green (voice of Njinga kilunda), Luisah Teish (old woman), Kevin Ryder (Father Brandaon, suitman, De Sousa), Seku Tonge (spirit drummer), Nego Gato (Mbandi, Mbandi kilunda), Marie Basse Wiles (Queen Kengela, Ngana Inene), Coster Massamba (King Ngola Kiluaji), Biza Sompa (head warrior), Mabiba Baegne (adult Njinga), Titos Sompa (Patrice Lumumba, warrior), Carol Chappell ; Angolan guest artists, Jorgé Macedo, Té Macedo, Julieta Xavier, Eugénia Piedade.
  
• Summary:Musical theater work juxtaposing the life of Njinga, a seventeenth-century female ruler of Ndongo (present-day Angola), with twentieth-century characters and political events.
  
• Notes:Special features include: Ancestral voices (1992, 56:40), directed by Stephen Barnwell; Peak Moments (2009, 12:51), filmed and edited by Victoria Kereszi.
  Recorded in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music Majestic Theater, New York, by Character Generators/Video, Tirtza Even, cameraperson, Dec. 4, 1993.
  DVD; region 0; audio format in Dolby Digital 5.1; NTSC; aspect ratio, 4:3 and 16:9.