Dance USA

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Title

Dance USA

Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Names

Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
McGregor, Wayne (Narrator)
Graham, Martha (Choreographer)
Eilber, Janet (Interviewee)
Jowitt, Deborah (Interviewee)
Dakin, Christine (Interviewee)
Capucilli, Terese (Interviewee)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Solomons, Gus, Jr., 1940- (Interviewee)
Taylor, Paul, 1930- (Choreographer)
Adams, Carolyn (Interviewee)
Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993 (Dancer)
Gordon, David, 1936- (Choreographer)
Setterfield, Valda (Dancer)
Brown, Trisha, 1936- (Choreographer)
Brown, Trisha, 1936- (Dancer)
Brown, Trisha, 1936- (Interviewee)
Tharp, Twyla (Choreographer)
Rudner, Sara (Dancer)
Whiteside, Karen (Director)
Morris, Fiona (Producer)
Cash, Debra (Consultant)
BBC Wales (Associated name)
Graham, Martha (Dancer)
Taylor, Paul, 1930- (Dancer)
Gordon, David, 1936- (Dancer)
Tharp, Twyla (Dancer)
Whiteside, Karen (Producer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 2003
Place: U.K
Publisher: BBC Wales

Table Of Contents

Dance excerpts include: Martha Graham's Heretic, Errand into the maze (rehearsal), Appalachian spring, and Night journey. Merce Cunningham's Beach birds for camera and Untitled solo. Paul Taylor's Noah's minstrels, Aureole (danced by Rudolf Nureyev), and Three epitaphs. Trisha Brown's Man walking down the side of a building, Walking on the wall, Homemade, and Theme and variations. David Gordon's An audience with the pope. Twyla Tharp's Eight jelly rolls (rehearsal and performance), Movin' out, and In the upper room.

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 3626
Shelf locator: *MGZIA 4-7568 (former)

Subjects

Graham, Martha
Cunningham, Merce
Taylor, Paul, 1930-
Gordon, David, 1936-
Brown, Trisha, 1936-
Tharp, Twyla
Judson Dance Theater
Choreographers -- United States
Dancers -- United States
Modern dance -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Modern dance -- United States -- History

Genres

Interviews
Documentary Films

Notes

Statement Of Responsibility: BBC Wales ; directed and produced by Karen Whiteside.
Content: Aspect ratio is 14:9 letterbox.
Creation/Production Credits: Dance consultant, Debra Cash ; production team, Alison Watkins, Nicola Owen, Ann Oswald ; researcher, Ali Whitehouse ; camera, Ross Keith, David Gopsill ; sound, Caleb Moore, Graham Tobin ; editing, Niki Turner ; executive producer, Fiona Morris.
Performers: [Narrator:] Wayne McGregor.
Performers: Interviewees (in order of appearance): Janet Eilber, Deborah Jowitt, Christine Dakin, Terese Capucilli, Gus Solomons Jr., Carolyn Adams, David Gordon, Valda Setterfield, Trisha Brown, Sara Rudner.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences

Abstract

British choreographer Wayne McGregor revisits the territory of some groundbreaking modern dance choreographers who are or were active in New York: Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, the Judson Church group (among them David Gordon, Valda Setterfield, and Trisha Brown), and Twyla Tharp. Interviewing the choreographers themselves or members of their dance companies, he explores their contributions, their significance as innovators, and the special qualities that distinguish them from each other. Film and video clips provide glimpses of each choreographer and his or her company in action. McGregor's journey also includes a brief visit to Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, repository of much of this history.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY04-F246
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15940834
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1ee16bc0-4b49-0133-7c8c-60f81dd2b63c

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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