Manuel Alum Dance Company

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Title

Manuel Alum Dance Company

Collection

Manuel Alum Video Archive

Names

Alum, Manuel (Choreographer)
Nathan, Peter Wilfred (Dancer)
Palo, Jennifer (Dancer)
Psinas, Elvira (Dancer)
Dalgin, Felice (Dancer)
Coker, Kevin (Dancer)
Benford, Tigger (Composer)
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 (Composer)
Blu (Lighting designer)
Manuel Alum Dance Company (Performer)
Alum, Manuel (Dancer)
Alum, Manuel (Costume designer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1978

Table Of Contents

Dream R.E.M. #95733 (ca. 19 min.) / music, Tigger Benford (improvised percussion score) ; danced by the company -- Flores para Casals [excerpts] (ca. 13 min.) / music, J.S. Bach ; danced by the company. The performance footage is preceded by ca. 2 min. of rehearsal onstage in costume.

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 9675
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 9-4906 (former)

Subjects

Riverside Dance Festival

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Content: Title from house program.
Additional Physical Form: For other works recorded at this performance, see *MGZIC 9-4912 Dream R.E.M. #108771 ; [and] Dream R.E.M. #422784.
Performers: Danced by the Manuel Alum Dance Company: Manuel Alum, Peter Nathan, Jennifer Palo, Elvira Psinas, Felice Dalgin, and Kevin Coker.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at the Theater of the Riverside Church, New York, on June 10, 1978, as part of the Riverside Dance Festival.
Funding: Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (33 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4 in.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY96-F13
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12392928
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 3550b0d0-8a74-0135-10a8-0572b39a29cb

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Manuel Alum Dance Company" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1978. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3550b0d0-8a74-0135-10a8-0572b39a29cb

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1978). Manuel Alum Dance Company Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3550b0d0-8a74-0135-10a8-0572b39a29cb

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Manuel Alum Dance Company" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 13, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3550b0d0-8a74-0135-10a8-0572b39a29cb

Wikipedia citation

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