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Four by Bard: choreography of Jean Churchill, Peggy Florin, Susan Osberg, Garry Reigenborn

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Title
Four by Bard: choreography of Jean Churchill, Peggy Florin, Susan Osberg, Garry Reigenborn
Additional title: Periodic Solution (Choreographic work : Churchill)
Additional title: Land in Sky, Fire in Water (Choreographic work : Osberg)
Additional title: Not Gentle (Choreographic work : Churchill)
Additional title: Benched (Choreographic work : Florin)
Additional title: Spell (Choreographic work : Reigenborn)
Additional title: In Tandem (Choreographic work : Florin)
Additional title: Rumi (Choreographic work : Osberg)
Additional title: 970-T-U-T-U (Choreographic work : Churchill)
Names
Reigenborn, Garry (Choreographer)
Churchill, Jean (Choreographer)
Florin, Peggy (Choreographer)
Osberg, Susan (Choreographer)
Hamburger, Susan (Lighting designer)
Noble, Debra (Dancer)
Briggs, Christina (Dancer)
Grace, Todd (Dancer)
Winslow, Edward (Dancer)
Powell, Steven (Videographer)
Eagle Video (Firm) (Videographer)
Bard College (Presenter)
Collection

Garry Reigenborn Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1999-07-23
Table of Contents
Reel 1. Opening credits (3 min.) |||| Periodic Solution (1985) [wide shot] (8 min.) / choreography, Jean Churchill ; music, Tom Leher, Sir Arthur Sullivan ; dancer, Todd Grace. |||| Land in Sky, Fire in Water (1998) [close shot] (14 min.) / choreography, Susan Osberg ; music, John Luther Adams (The Circle of Winds), Steve Roach (Heart of the Tempest) ; dancers, Christina Briggs and Edward Winslow. |||| Not Gentle (1999) [close shot] (8 min.) / choreography, Jean Churchill ; music, Anders Elliason (Disegno per Trombone) ; sound design, Jean Churchill. |||| Benched (1987) [close shot] (8 min.) / choreography, Peggy Florin ; dancers, Todd Grace and Debra Noble. |||| Spell (Premiere) [close shot] (11 min.) / choreography, Garry Reigenborn ; music, Henryk Gorecki (Third Symphony, Second Movement ; dancer, Debra Noble. |||| In Tandem (1999) [close shot] (10 min.) / choreography, Peggy Florin ; music, Domenico Scarlatti ; costume design, Denise Mitchell ; dancers, Jean Churchill and Peggy Florin. |||| Rumi (1999) [close shot] (10 min.) / choreography and performance, Susan Osberg ; text, Poetry by Rumi (a twelfth century mystic whos exstatic spinning began the proactice of the Whirling Dervish). |||| Reel 2. Snow (from 970-T-U-T-U) (1990) [close shot] (11 min.) / choreography, Jean Churchill ; music, Tchaikovsky ; sound design, Jean Churchill ; sound engineering, Phred Churchill ; dancer, Debra Noble, with Todd Grace. |||| Talking about bows and stage cleaning (1 min.). |||| Land in Sky, Fire in Water (1998) [wide shot] (14 min.) / choreography, Susan Osberg ; music, John Luther Adams (The Circle of Winds), Steve Roach (Heart of the Tempest) ; dancers, Christina Briggs and Edward Winslow. |||| Not Gentle (1999) [wide shot] (approximately 8 min.) / choreography, Jean Churchill ; music, Anders Elliason (Disegno per Trombone) ; sound design, Jean Churchill. |||| Benched (1987) [wide shot] (8 min.) / choreography, Peggy Florin ; dancers, Todd Grace and Debra Noble. |||| Spell (Premiere) [wide shot] (11 min.) / choreography, Garry Reigenborn ; music, Henryk Gorecki (Third Symphony, Second Movement ; dancer, Debra Noble. |||| In Tandem (1999) [wide shot] (10 min.)/ choreography, Peggy Florin ; music, Domenico Scarlatti ; costume design, Denise Mitchell ; dancers, Jean Churchill and Peggy Florin. |||| Rumi (1999) [wide shot] (11 min.) / choreography and performance, Susan Osberg ; text, Poetry by Rumi (a twelfth century mystic whos exstatic spinning began the proactice of the Whirling Dervish). |||| Snow (from 970-T-U-T-U) (1990) [wide shot] (11 min.) / choreography, Jean Churchill ; music, Tchaikovsky ; sound design, Jean Churchill ; sound engineering, Phred Churchill ; dancer, Debra Noble, with Todd Grace. |||| Periodic Solution (1985) [close shot] (8 min.) / choreography, Jean Churchill ; music, Tom Leher, Sir Arthur Sullivan ; dancer, Todd Grace.
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-7390
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Notes
Creation/production credits: Lighting designer, Susan Hamburger ; stage manager, Jennifer Glickman ; video, Steven Powell, Eagle Video.
Performers: Dancers, Christina Briggs, Todd Grace, Debra Noble, Edward Winslow.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at the Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck, N.Y. 1999 July 23.
Acquisition: Gift; James Clark Reigenborn; 2009.
Content: Last 5 min. of black screen at end of Reel 2.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (173 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Description
Two run throughs of this concert. Entire concert filmed in wide shot during performance; then entire concert filmed in close shot during dress rehearsal.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20052492
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8621dab0-8a9a-0131-cae5-58d385a7bbd0
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Four by Bard" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1999. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8621dab0-8a9a-0131-cae5-58d385a7bbd0

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Four by Bard" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8621dab0-8a9a-0131-cae5-58d385a7bbd0

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1999). Four by Bard Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8621dab0-8a9a-0131-cae5-58d385a7bbd0

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Four by Bard