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It's once, twice, three times Avant-Garde-Arama

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Title

It's once, twice, three times Avant-Garde-Arama

Collection

PS 122 Video Archive

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

Music
Motion Pictures

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

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. "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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