About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Avant-Garde-Arama

Avant-Garde-Arama: the pride is back

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

  • Choregraphie
  • A long minuet as danced at Bath
  • Sketchbook
  • Sarah Bernhardt's farewell American tour
  • Scrapbook documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French
  • The dance score
  • Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse
  • Sketchbook
  • Coreografie per ballabili d'opera
  • Caricature of Sergeĭ Dyagilev
  • La sténochorégraphie
  • Ehon Tsūhōshi
  • Le maître a danser
  • America
  • Costume designs for the ballet La Pastorella Svizzera
Previous Next

COLLECTION
PS 122 Video Archive

This Item

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Avant-Garde-Arama: the pride is back
Additional title: Pride is back
Additional title: Temp for a day (Choreographic work : Goodwin)
Additional title: Boot camp (Choreographic work : McDonald)
Additional title: Great outdoors (Choreographic work : Foley)
Additional title: Prêt-à-porter (Choreographic work : Dennis)
Names
McDonald, D. J. (Choreographer)
McDonald, D. J. (Dancer)
Mamula, David (Performer)
Goodwin, B. J. (Dancer)
Goodwin, B. J (Choreographer)
Foley, Kate, 1958- (Dancer)
Foley, Kate, 1958- (Choreographer)
Kueffer, Carol (Dancer)
Ferris, Chris (Dancer)
Dennis, Charles (Dancer)
Dennis, Charles (Choreographer)
Saliba, Paul (Dancer)
Veretennikova, Nina (Dancer)
Stultz, Kevin (Composer)
Mahrer, Michelle (Director)
Mahrer, Michelle (Film producer)
Mahrer, Michelle (Conceptor)
Tully, Peter (Costume designer)
Cabot, Brett (Composer)
Offord, Colin (Composer)
Greenberg, Blair (Composer)
Westheimer, Peter (Composer)
Lefkowitz, Miriam (Videographer)
Avant-Garde-Arama (Producer)
Performance Space 122 (Event place)
Collection

PS 122 Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1987-03-06
Place: New York, NY
Table of Contents
Disc 1 (ca. 52 min.): Boot camp / choreography/performance, D.J. McDonald -- On performance art [and] The 60-second chef [and] Excerpts from Italian opera / performed by David Mamula -- Temp for a day / choreography/performance, B.J. Goodwin ; music, Throbbing Gristle -- Great outdoors. Part I / choreography, Kate Foley ; music, Kevin Stultz ; performed by Foley, Carol Kueffer, and Chris Ferris. |||| Disc 2 (ca. 52 min.). Pret-à-porter / choreography, Charles Dennis ; performed by Dennis and others -- Xidu (b and color) / film conceived, directed, and edited by Michelle Mahrer ; music, Brett Cabot, Blair Greenberg, Colin Offord, and Peter Westheimer ; costumes, Peter Tully ; danced by Paul Saliba and Nina Veretennikova -- 42nd Street. 40-second performances by volunteers from the audience -- [Songs and tap dancing] / performed by Bob's Drive-Inn.
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 6067
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-2517 (former)
Topics
Experimental films
Performance art
Tap dancing
Avant-garde (Music)
Avant-garde dance
Avant-Garde-Arama
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Notes
Venue: Videotaped in performance at Performance Space 122, New York, on March 6, 1987, by Character Generators/Video.
Funding: This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 2 videocassettes (Umatic) (104 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 3/4 in.
Description
Program of avant-garde dance, music, film, and performance art.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY94-F146
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12175524
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ee873d90-a8fa-0134-8cec-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
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.

Item timeline of events

  • 1987: Created
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Avant-Garde-Arama" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1987. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5d4ce680-ef96-0133-60d1-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Avant-Garde-Arama" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5d4ce680-ef96-0133-60d1-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1987). Avant-Garde-Arama Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5d4ce680-ef96-0133-60d1-60f81dd2b63c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5d4ce680-ef96-0133-60d1-60f81dd2b63c | title= (moving image) Avant-Garde-Arama, (1987)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 26, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Avant-Garde-Arama