Coming of age on Broadway in the 1950s, Carmen De Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder found true love when they met each other. Their marriage has endured for over half a century, and this documentary offers a poignant portrait of their relationship and creative lives.

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Distributor Notes: Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder, two living legends in the world of American dance, are the subjects of this intimate and revealing documentary. Carmen achieved notoriety in the early 1950s, as a lead dancer of incomparable beauty and grace with Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater. Geoffrey, large in life and an elemental force on stage, found fame not only as a dancer but also as an actor (“Live and Let Die”), soda spokesman (“the Un-Colaaaaa...”) and theater director (“The Wiz”). He and Carmen met in 1954 and married a year later.
Filmed over several years in the United States, Trinidad and Paris, this exquisite documentary features candid interviews and glorious dance performances, with legends like Alvin Ailey, Herbert Ross, Lester Horton, Joe Layton, Duke Ellington and Josephine Baker, demonstrating the amazing talent and uninterrupted creativity of these icons of dance.

Linda Atkinson: Director
Nick Doob: Director

"CARMEN & GODFREY leaves you wondering why its subjects are not widely recognized as national treasures."
"Holder's larger-than-life gusto and de Lavallade's graceful serenity still register onscreen today."
3 stars out of 5 -- "Geoffrey and Carmen are poets who don't just dabble in the arts. They graced the stage with Josephine Baker and call Tony Bennett a chum....Through it all there is much to applaud and ruminate over once the credits roll."