Working with Ulysses Dove, Ethan Brown, Parrish Maynard
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Title
Working with Ulysses Dove, Ethan Brown, Parrish Maynard
Collection
Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation
Names
New York Public Library. Dance Division (Producer)
Brown, Ethan (Interviewee)
Maynard, Parrish (Interviewee)
Ipiotis, Celia (Interviewer)
Bush, Jeffrey C. (Associated name)
Barrera, Juan (Videographer)
Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc. (Associated name)
New York Public Library. Dance Collection (Associated name)
Sathya Production Services (Firm) (Videographer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1996-06-18
Library Location
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2382
Subjects
Dove, Ulysses
American Ballet Theatre
Serious pleasures (Choreographic work : Dove)
Choreographers -- United States
Genres
Notes
Content: Recording made possible by the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library in cooperation with Arts Resources in Collaboration Inc., Celia Ipiotis and Jeff Bush.
Content: Unedited footage.
Creation/Production Credits: Camera, Juan Barrera ; audio, Molly McBride.
Venue: Videotaped in New York on June 18, 1996, by Sathya Production Services.
Funding: Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (31 min., 10 sec.) : sound, color ;3/4 in,
Abstract
Ethan Brown and Parrish Maynard, dancers with American Ballet Theatre, recall how Ulysses Dove created the ballet Serious pleasures for the company. They describe the technical and expressional demands he made upon the dancers, citing in particular the choreography's athleticism and frank sexual content. They also note the difficulty of coping with the elaborate set, which included nine doors, through which the dancers had to make numerous entrances and exits. Both Maynard, who danced a leading role in the ballet, and Brown describe how Dove's emphasis on human qualities helped them broaden their expressional range as dancers.
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Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY96-F366
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12541682
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4d3f43e0-8664-0138-1f35-2985331ef6b7
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MLA format
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Working with Ulysses Dove, Ethan Brown, Parrish Maynard" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1996. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4d3f43e0-8664-0138-1f35-2985331ef6b7
APA format
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1996). Working with Ulysses Dove, Ethan Brown, Parrish Maynard Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4d3f43e0-8664-0138-1f35-2985331ef6b7
Chicago/Turabian Format
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Working with Ulysses Dove, Ethan Brown, Parrish Maynard" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 10, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4d3f43e0-8664-0138-1f35-2985331ef6b7
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