The Ilo Experience: A Musical Ballad of Fact and Fantasy, 1976 April 2
Language: English
Scope and Content Note

Writer: Tad Truesdale

Director: Tad Truesdale

Ensemble: [none]

Written, directed, and composed by Tad Truesdale, with musical arrangement by Gerald Cook and choreography by Larl Becham. This production was a part of the La MaMa New Playwrights Works-In-Progress Series. Camera originals are spread across two separate half-inch open reels (F17 and F18).

File: F17_IloExperience1976_VidA
Quantity: Running time: 01:03:22 
Scope and Content Note: The Ilo Experience (00:30:52-01:03:18); with A Third World Cultural Perspective (00:00:01-00:26:56), A Kathakali Excerpt and Indian Odissi Dance (00:00:01-00:05:45), A Heroic Dance of Revenge from a Chinese Opera (00:05:46-00:10:31), Nigerian Ancestral Call and Stilt Dance (00:10:39-00:24:57), Congolese Dance Rituals related to Circumcision and Fetishers (cuts off quickly) (00:24:58-00:25:53), Ellen Stewart thanks Cecile Guidote and TWITAS staff) (00:25:54-00:26:56), Duo playing autoharp and guitar- no audio, only radio signal picked up (From the Cracker Club Gala 1976 - audio plays accurately for same duo on Reel F9) (00:26:58-00:30:51)

File: F18_IloExperience1976_VidA
Quantity: Running time: 00:53:29