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Jerome Robbins Dance Division

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Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation

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Breath

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Title
Breath
Additional title: Breath (Choreographic work : Eiko and Koma)
Names
New York Public Library. Dance Division (Producer)
Pantzer, Jerry (Videographer)
Poitras, Scott (Lighting designer)
Yokobosky, Matthew (Curator)
Eiko and Koma (Choreographer)
Eiko and Koma (Performer)
Eiko and Koma (Designer)
Whitney Museum of American Art (Event place)
National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (Funder)
Collection

Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1998-06-08
Date Created: 1998-06-15
Place: New York, NY
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 7150 ; *MGZIDVD 5-5346 (former)
Topics
Installations (Art) -- New York (State) -- New York (N.Y.)
Butō
Genres
Filmed performances
Notes
Creation/production credits: [choreographed and performed] by Eiko & Koma.
Version identification: Cinematic version.
Version identification: For another edit of this performance, see *MGZIC 9-5964 Breath.
Creation/production credits: Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, curated by Matthew Yokobosky ; environment and video, Eiko & Koma ; lighting, Eiko & Koma, Scott Poitras ; assistants to Eiko & Koma, Kozue Oshiro, Tetsuma Shimizu.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, on June 8 and 15, 1998 ; video photographed and directed by Jerry Pantzer ; editing, Jerry Pantzer and Eiko & Koma, with AVID supervising editor François Bernadi. Videotaped for the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.
Funding: This project was made possible by a grant from the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), a program under the umbrella SAVE AS: DANCE, underwritten by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Funding: The assistance of New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (Betacam SP) (19 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Description
Work originally presented as a "living" installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art, from May 28 through June 21, 1998.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY99-F925
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14302123
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 642e7b40-05e0-0135-397a-114bdb38d812
Rights Statement
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Breath" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1998 - 1998. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90811e5e-f0aa-46b8-a6d6-c6b86087e9bd

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Breath" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90811e5e-f0aa-46b8-a6d6-c6b86087e9bd

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1998 - 1998). Breath Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90811e5e-f0aa-46b8-a6d6-c6b86087e9bd

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Breath