As Speech Flows to Music
Individual Film Price:
Higher Education Institutions & Government Agency DVD | $49.95
K-12 & Public Libraries DVD | $49.95
Home Video DVD License – Restrictions Apply | $5.95
Community Visions Compilation Price:
This video is available for purchase as part of a Community Visions Vol. 4 compilation DVD.
Higher Education Institutions & Government Agency DVD | $139.00
K-12 & Public Libraries DVD | $79.00
Home Video DVD License – Restrictions Apply | $20.00
Scribe Video Center Program:
The Community Visions program teaches documentary video-making skills to members of community organizations in Philadelphia, Chester and Camden (NJ). A powerful way to document community concerns, celebrate cultural diversity, and comment on the human condition, Community Visions is a part of Scribe’s mission to explore, develop and advance the use of video, film, audio and interactive technology as artistic tools and as tools for progressive social change.
Project Facilitator: Diane Poitus
Film Summary:
The feminist choir featured in this video takes its unusual name from the Greek word "anacrusis," a word used in music to describe an "upbeat" or "feminine" entrance to a phrase. The Anna Crusis Women's Choir finds the phrase fitting for the purpose of defining themselves in relation to music, a philosophy of feminism, and the joy of performing. The choir performs music from classical and renaissance traditions as well as music which is more experimental in nature, including forays into pop, jazz, reggae, folk, gospel, Balkan, and country styles, and in many different languages.
The 16-minute video, which was edited from 8 hours of footage, features the Philadelphia-based vocal ensemble, performances by soloists Heather Sampson and Shelley Krause, and personal anecdotes from founder Cathy Roma, music director Jane Hulting, and other past and present members of the choir. The video, which is still being screened by the Choir more than a decade later, most recently as a teaching tool at the University of Delaware in March 2006, shows the members of the Anna Crusis Womens Choir as feminists who believe strongly in the choir's mission - to speak politics through beautiful music.
The Anna Crusis Women's Choir , founded in 1975, is the country's oldest feminist choir and has been honored for its community service in the Philadelphia area. The Choir acts as both an agent of social change and a premier performing arts group by empowering its audiences on important issues of the day affecting women, youth and disadvantaged populations.
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