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Autobiography of a Liar, 1999-12-11

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Title

Autobiography of a Liar, 1999-12-11

Collection

David Gordon Video Archive

Names

Gordon, David, 1936- (Creator)
Sandström, Phil (Lighting designer)
Setterfield, Valda (Performer)
Beavers, Wendell (Performer)
Clark, Hope (Performer)
Cunningham, Scott (Performer)
Graham, Karen (Performer)
Langland, Paul (Performer)
McAfee, Eli (Performer)
McCall, Brendan (Performer)
Oliver, Cynthia (Performer)
Pashalinski, Lola (Performer)
Sexton, Lucy (Performer)
David Gordon/Pickup Company (Performer)
Danspace Project (New York, N.Y.) (Producer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1999-12-11

Table Of Contents

Debris Flow; Chair (excerpt); Mannequin (Fragment); Sleepwalking (excerpt); One Part of the Matter (excerpt); Spilled Milk (fragments); Times Four (excerpt); What Happened; Trying Times (excerpt); Twenty One Minutes Some Odd; Beethoven.

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 3896

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Content: Credits transcribed from program.
Content: Title on original: Autobiography of a Liar new & used theatre/dance by David Gordon recorded Sunday 12/11/99 at St Mark's Church, New York City camera: Judy Leif audience left pre-show footage rt 8:45 rt 01:47:25.
Creation/Production Credits: new & used theatre/dance by David Gordon; Assistant to the choreographer, Karen Graham; Lighting design, Philip W. Sandström; Assistant lighting designer, Leo Janks; Production stage manager, Ed Fitzgerald; Technical Director, Rebecca Mercier; Pick Up Performance Company Production; Presented by Danspace Project.
Venue: Recorded December 11, 1999 St. Mark's Church, New York, NY.
Acquisition: Gift; Pick Up Performance Co(s), David Gordon. 2014.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (DVCPRO-123L ) (124 min) : sound, color ; 6.35 mm

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 894700527
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20474002
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 12da4bf0-9e7f-0132-74f5-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Autobiography of a Liar, 1999-12-11" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1999. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/12da4bf0-9e7f-0132-74f5-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1999). Autobiography of a Liar, 1999-12-11 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/12da4bf0-9e7f-0132-74f5-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Autobiography of a Liar, 1999-12-11" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 13, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/12da4bf0-9e7f-0132-74f5-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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