Dirt

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Title

Dirt

Collection

Dance Theater Workshop Video Archive

Names

Pottenger, Marty (Producer)
Freedman, Jenna (Director)
Bronson, Beverly (Set designer)
Mydlack, Danny (Set designer)
Giovannetti, Tony (Lighting designer)
Dance Theater Workshop (Presenter)
Video D Studios (Videographer)
Pottenger, Marty (Author)
Pottenger, Marty (Set designer)
Pottenger, Marty (Performer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1992-01-24

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 8446

Subjects

Dance Theater Workshop
Performance art
Child actors
Drama

Genres

Filmed Performances

Notes

Creation/Production Credits: presented by Dance Theater Workshop's Economy Tires Theater ; [written] and produced by Marty Pottenger ; directed by Jenna Freedman.
Content: Accompanied by house program.
Creation/Production Credits: Set, Marty Pottenger with Jenna Freedman, Beverly Bronson, Danny Mydlack ; costumes and props, Beverly Bronson ; lighting, Tony Giovannetti ; sound, Tom Miller.
Performers: Una Osato (Karen Kyung Suk Leem) ; Benjamin Dean-Kawamura (Kevin Kyung Sik Leem) ; Charles Grimes (Ralph G. Loren) ; Marty Pottenger (Em Place) ; Anne Putnam (Grace Place) ; Elaine Olesker Barrow (Frances Pytak).
Venue: Videotaped in performance at DTW's Bessie Schönberg Theater, New York, on January 24, 1992, by Video D Studios.

Physical Description

Extent: 2 videocassettes (U-matic) (81 min. total) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Abstract

Play set in Midwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1991. According to the program, "All characters are dead and have recently been buried in the same cemetery."

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY99-F673
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14430580
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 82b90de0-a383-0138-1151-5db9d513fd41

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Dirt" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1992. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/82b90de0-a383-0138-1151-5db9d513fd41

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1992). Dirt Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/82b90de0-a383-0138-1151-5db9d513fd41

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Dirt" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/82b90de0-a383-0138-1151-5db9d513fd41

Wikipedia citation

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