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Balanchine Celebration 1993 May 4 [Close shot]

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Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation

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George Balanchine Celebration

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Balanchine Celebration 1993 May 4 [Close shot]

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Title
Balanchine Celebration 1993 May 4 [Close shot]
Additional title: Serenade (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
Additional title: Concerto barocco (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
Additional title: Four temperaments (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
Names
New York Public Library. Dance Division (Producer)
Hlinka, Nichol (Dancer)
Saland, Stephanie (Dancer)
White, Diana (Dancer)
Fischer, Lindsay (Dancer)
Fugate, Judith (Dancer)
Nichols, Kyra (Dancer)
Lüders, Adam (Dancer)
Calvert, Stacey (Dancer)
Karz, Zippora (Dancer)
Tracey, Kathleen, 1969- (Dancer)
Whelan, Wendy (Dancer)
Edwards, Jeffrey (Dancer)
Higgins, Arch (Dancer)
Huys, Ben (Dancer)
Martins, Nilas (Dancer)
Soto, Jock (Dancer)
Fiorato, Hugo (Conductor)
Figueroa, Guillermo (Instrumentalist)
Danielson, Nick (Instrumentalist)
Zimmerman, Jerry (Instrumentalist)
Balanchine, George (Choreographer)
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 (Composer)
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 (Composer)
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 (Composer)
Karinska, Barbara (Costume designer)
Bates, Ronald (Lighting designer)
Stanley, Mark (Lighting designer)
Millard, Jay (Videographer)
New York City Ballet (Performer)
School of American Ballet (Performer)
George Balanchine Trust (Associated name)
New York Public Library. Dance Collection (Associated name)
Collection

Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation

George Balanchine Celebration

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1993-05-04
Table of Contents
[Polonaise and Happy birthday song] (ca. 5 min.) / performed by students of the School of American Ballet. |||| Serenade [excerpt] (ca. 23 min.) / music, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (Serenade in C major for string orchestra) ; costumes, Karinska ; original lighting, Ronald Bates ; performed by students of the School of American Ballet and Nichol Hlinka, Stephanie Saland, Diana White, Lindsay Fischer, with Yvonne Borree, Miriam Mahdaviani, Jenifer Ringer, Kathleen Tracey, and Jennifer Fuchs, Lydia Harmsen, Romy Karz, Margo Krody, Sherri LeBlanc, Andrea Long, Janey McGeary, Rebecca Metzger, Teresa Reyes, Catherine Ryan, Santhe Tsetsilas, Melissa Walter, Deborah Wingert. |||| Concerto barocco: First movement (ca. 4 min.) / music, Johann Sebastian Bach (Double violin concerto in D minor) ; performed by Judith Fugate and Kyra Nichols, with Tatiana Garcia-Stefanovich, Michele Gifford, Lydia Harmsen, Romy Karz, Teresa Reyes, Jenifer Ringer, Catherine Ryan, Jennifer Tinsley ; first violin, Guillermo Figueroa ; second violin, Nicolas Danielson. |||| The four temperaments [excerpt] (ca. 12 min.) / music, Paul Hindemith ; cast: Third variation, Phlegmatic / performed by Adam Lüders with Jade Adams, Dana Hanson, Melissa Walter, and Deborah Wingert -- Fourth variation, Choleric / performed by Diana White, Stacey Calvert, Zippora Karz, Kathleen Tracey, Wendy Whelan, Jeffrey Edwards, Arch Higgins, Ben Huys, Lüders, Nilas Martins, Jock Soto, with Jade Adams, Samantha Allen, Wendy Drapala, Jennifer Fuchs, Michele Gifford, Dana Hanson, Isabel Kimmel, Dena Kinstlinger, Andrea Long, Miriam Mahdaviani, Jennifer Tinsley, Pascale van Kipnis, Melissa Walter, Deborah Wingert; piano soloist, Jerry Zimmerman..
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 9-4252B
Topics
Balanchine, George
New York City Ballet
Balanchine Celebration (1993 : New York City Ballet)
Ballet
Child dancers
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Notes
Statement of responsibility: [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine.
Content: Recording made possible by the cooperation of New York City Ballet, The George Balanchine Trust, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.
Creation/production credits: Lighting, Mark Stanley.
Performers: Performed by New York City Ballet, with students of the School of American Ballet ; Conductor: Hugo Fiorato.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on May 4, 1993, during New York City Ballet's Balanchine Celebration, by Jay Millard. Close shot version ; for wide shot, see *MGZIC 9-4252A.
Funding: Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (U-matic SP) (58 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Description
First part of the opening night program of the Balanchine Celebration. The ballets are interspersed with brief video segments on George Balanchine's life and work. For the final ballet on this program, see *MGZIC 9-4253A and 9-4253B Symphony in C.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12328700
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 88e63390-e36a-0130-8476-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
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.

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Balanchine Celebration 1993 May 4 [Close shot]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1993. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8de80900-e36a-0130-480e-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Balanchine Celebration 1993 May 4 [Close shot]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8de80900-e36a-0130-480e-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1993). Balanchine Celebration 1993 May 4 [Close shot] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8de80900-e36a-0130-480e-3c075448cc4b

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Balanchine Celebration 1993 May 4 [Close shot]