Women in black and white

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Title
Women in black and white
Names
Sewell, Meg (Dancer)
Boyer, Penny (Dancer)
Myers, Maria (Dancer)
Raven, Joan (Dancer)
Daniels, Leslie Brett (Dancer)
Smith, Jane (American architect, contemporary) (Dancer)
Grafton, Meg (Dancer)
Setterfield, Valda (Dancer)
Brecker, Candace (Contributor)
Frishberg, Nancy (Contributor)
Jason, Jack (Contributor)
Prevor, Beth (Contributor)
Flowers, Roma (Lighting designer)
Gordon, Ain (Choreographer)
Gordon, Ain (Director)
Hands On (Organization) (Contributor)
Video D Studios (Videographer)
Dance Theater Workshop (Producer)
Collection

Dance Theater Workshop Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1987
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2836
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 9-3756 (former)
Topics
Dance Theater Workshop
Performance art
Sign language
Deaf
Sign-interpreted performances
Women in black and white (Choreographic work : Gordon, A)
Genres
Filmed performances
Filmed dance
Notes
Venue: Subtitle: (Do ushers really know where you're going). Sign-interpreted performance. Videotaped in performance by Video D Studios at the Bessie Schönberg Theater, New York, on March 22, 1987. Presented by Dance Theater Workshop's Economy Tires Theater.
Creation/production credits: Written and directed by Ain Gordon. Slides: Marko Gosar. Lighting: Roma Flowers.
Performers: Performed by Meg Sewell, Penny Boyer, Maria Myers, Joan Raven, Leslie Brett Daniels, Jane Smith, and Meg Grafton, with a special cameo "appearance" [on audiotape and slides] by Valda Setterfield.
Content: Reel 1: approx. 44 min. Reel 2: approx. 60 min.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 2 videocassettes (104 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Description
Performance art work, with sign interpretation for the deaf and hearing-impaired by members of Hands On: Candace Brecker and Nancy Frishberg (interpreters), Jack Jason (interpreter director), and Beth Prevor (project coordinator). David White introduces the performance at the beginning of cassette 1, and a question-and-answer period (approx. 23 min.) with Gordon, cast members, White, and members of Hands On appears at the end of cassette 2.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12174924
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 064f5200-b2c0-0131-5c85-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Women in black and white" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1987. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/15f5e000-b2c0-0131-8b6b-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Women in black and white" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/15f5e000-b2c0-0131-8b6b-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1987). Women in black and white Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/15f5e000-b2c0-0131-8b6b-3c075448cc4b

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Women in black and white