It's once, twice, three times Avant-Garde-Arama
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Title
It's once, twice, three times Avant-Garde-Arama
Collection
Names
Murphy, Brigid (Host)
Vittoni, Elisabetta (Dancer)
Goodson, Dale (Performer)
Marcus, Deborah (Performer)
Reynolds, Anne (Performer)
Roth, Flora (Performer)
Sternberg, Edward (Performer)
Greene, April (Performer)
Killen, Paula (Performer)
Peyser, Ruth (Cinematographer)
Roth, Debra (Creator)
Lefkowitz, Miriam (Videographer)
Pink Inc (Performer)
Performance Space 122 (Presenter)
Pink Inc. (Designer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1989-06-22
Table Of Contents
Cassette 1 (ca. 52 min.). [Dance solo] / performed by Elisabetta Vittoni -- We died, you die / performed by Dale Goodson -- Clara's dream / choreography, Deborah Marcus ; performed by Deborah Marcus, Anne Reynolds, Flora Roth, and Edward Sternberg -- The preposterous life of a sadly misunderstood black woman artist living in turn of the century metropolis [excerpt] / performed by April Greene. |||| Cassette 2 (ca. 59 min.). [Movement theater/visual art work] / created by Debra Roth and others ; performed by Pink Inc. -- [Monologue] / performed by Paula Killen -- 42nd Street. 40-second performances by volunteers from the audience -- Covered in fleas / animated film by Ruth Peyser -- [Songs] / performed by Drink Me.
Library Location
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 8310
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 9-4602 (former)
Subjects
Avant-garde (Music)
Performance art
Experimental films
Animation (Cinematography)
Avant-Garde-Arama
Genres
Notes
Performers: Host: Brigid Murphy.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at Performance Space 122, New York, on June 22, 1989, by Character Generators/Video, cameraperson, Miriam Lefkowitz.
Funding: Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Physical Description
Extent: 2 videocassettes (Umatic) (111 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Abstract
Program of avant-garde music, dance, performance art, and film, interspersed with songs performed by Brigid Murphy.
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY94-F214
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12175592
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7fb99b20-8a74-0135-d88d-1385ede866a6
Rights
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MLA format
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "It's once, twice, three times Avant-Garde-Arama" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1989. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7fb99b20-8a74-0135-d88d-1385ede866a6
APA format
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1989). It's once, twice, three times Avant-Garde-Arama Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7fb99b20-8a74-0135-d88d-1385ede866a6
Chicago/Turabian Format
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "It's once, twice, three times Avant-Garde-Arama" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7fb99b20-8a74-0135-d88d-1385ede866a6
Wikipedia citation
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