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The Solomons Company/Dance

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Title

The Solomons Company/Dance

Collection

The Gus Solomons Video Archive

Names

Solomons, Gus, jr, 1940- (Donor)
Bogorad, Beatrice (Dancer)
Coker, Kevin (Dancer)
Derr, Edward A (Dancer)
Graf, Pat (Dancer)
Thomsen, Carl (Dancer)
Solomons, Gus, jr, 1940- (Choreographer)
Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945 (Composer)
Morales, Mio (Composer)
Tsug, Eva (Costume designer)
Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014 (Designer)
Nelson, Richard, 1938-1996 (Lighting designer)
Schwartz, Michael (Videographer)
Solomons Company/Dance (Performer)
Character Generators/Video (Videographer)
Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014 (Costume designer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1983-04-27

Table Of Contents

Reel 1. Molehill (1974) (ca. 17 min.) / music, Béla Bartók ; costumes, Eva Tsug ; danced by Beatrice Bogorad, Edward Derr, Carl Thomsen --Flesh wine and sinew to the bone (1983) (ca. 11 min.) / music, Mio Morales ; costume, Eva Tsug ; danced by Gus Solomons, Jr. |||| Reel 2. Steps #8: Pedal-rock rebus (1983) (ca. 30 min.) / music, Joe Jackson, Police, Steely Dan, arranged by Mio Morales ; scenery and costumes, Geoffrey Holder ; danced by the Company -- Steps #8 [excerpts] (ca. 15 min.) / recorded in stage rehearsal, in costume

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 7772
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 9-6255 (former)

Subjects

Riverside Dance Festival

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Creation/Production Credits: [presented by] the Riverside Dance Festival ; choreography by Gus Solomons, Jr. ; Lighting, Richard Nelson
Performers: Performed by the Solomons Company/Dance: Beatrice Bogorad, Kevin Coker, Edward Derr, Pat Graf, Gus Solomons Jr., and Carl Thomsen.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at the Theater of the Riverside Church, New York, as part of the Riverside Dance Festival, on April 27, 1983, by Character Generators/Video ; cameraperson, Michael Schwartz.
Funding: Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Physical Description

Extent: 2 videocassettes (U-matic) (73 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY00-F111
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14649040
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 14c872d0-7bb7-0135-db67-539088dd85aa

Rights

The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "The Solomons Company/Dance" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1983. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/14c872d0-7bb7-0135-db67-539088dd85aa

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1983). The Solomons Company/Dance Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/14c872d0-7bb7-0135-db67-539088dd85aa

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "The Solomons Company/Dance" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 8, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/14c872d0-7bb7-0135-db67-539088dd85aa

Wikipedia citation

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