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Title

Bottoms up! benefit for Performance Space 122

Collection

PS 122 Video Archive

Names

Russell, Mark (American painter, designer, and illustrator, 1880-1967) (Speaker)
Wisdom, Bob (Host)
Gordh, Bill (Performer)
Allyn, Jerri (Performer)
Lowery, Joe (Performer)
King, Kenneth, 1948- (Performer)
Burns, Mary Lisa (Performer)
Magnuson, Ann (Performer)
Montaug, Haoui (Singer)
Bernd, John (Performer)
Gam, Kaja (Performer)
Hurlin, Dan (Performer)
Yeager, Adam (Performer)
Langland, Paul (Dancer)
Langland, Paul (Composer)
Madden, Diane (Dancer)
Lepkoff, Daniel (Dancer)
Martin, Nina (Dancer)
Martin, Nina (Designer)
Warshaw, Randy (Dancer)
Myles, Eileen (Speaker)
Weiss, Jeff (Performer)
Samuels, Heather (Costume designer)
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 (Author)
Ferri, David (Lighting designer)
McMahon, Jeff (Cinematographer)
McMahon, Jeff (Director)
McMahon, Jeff (Film editor)
Performance Space 122 (Presenter)
Channel Z (Company) (Performer)
Video D Studios (Videographer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1986-02-08

Table Of Contents

Reel 1 (ca. 62 min.): [Untitled performance piece] / performed by Interaction Arts: Jerri Allyn, Bill Gordh, and Joe Lowery -- Strung-out newscasters / costumes, Heather Samuels ; performed by Kenneth King and Mary Lisa Burns -- Art in the East Village today : genius or hoax? / performed by Ann Magnuson as Mary Margaret McKeehan -- [Songs] / performed by Haoui Montaug -- Tell me moving (b film) / director/camera/editor, Jeff McMahon ; performed on film by John Bernd and Kaja Gam. |||| Reel 2 (ca. 57 min.): New Hampshire duets : excerpt / performed by Dan Hurlin and Adam Yeager -- [Dance work] / music, Danny Lepkoff and Paul Langland ; set concept, Nina Martin ; performed by Channel Z: Paul Langland, Diane Madden, Danny Lepkoff, Nina Martin, and Randy Warshaw -- Speeches by Mark Russell and Jim Shelly, respectively executive director and box office manager of P. S. 122 -- "In two homes" : [poetry reading] / by Eileen Myles -- [Songs and a reading of Gertrude Stein's "All of it is to be"] / by Jeff Weiss.

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-2819

Subjects

Arts fund raising
Performance art
Music -- United States
Benefit performances
Motion pictures

Genres

Filmed Performances
Filmed Dance

Notes

Content: The final part of this program, featuring Holly Hughes and Mark Morris, is on *MGZIDVD 5-2813.
Venue: Videotaped in performance by Video D Studios for Dance Theater Workshop's Dance/Video Access project at Performance Space 122, New York, on Feb. 8, 1986 (8 p.m.).
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

Extent: 12 videocassettes (Umatic) (119 min.) : sound, color ; with black and white sequences; 3/4 in.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12175181
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7e20ff80-e368-0130-d051-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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.

Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Bottoms up! benefit for Performance Space 122" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1986. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7e20ff80-e368-0130-d051-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1986). Bottoms up! benefit for Performance Space 122 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7e20ff80-e368-0130-d051-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Bottoms up! benefit for Performance Space 122" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7e20ff80-e368-0130-d051-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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