Medea

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Title

Medea

Collection

Danspace Project Video Archive

Names

Papoulis, Ann (Director)
King, John, 1953 November 28- (Composer)
Schnabl, Katrin (Costume designer)
Sumac, Yma (Singer)
Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842 (Composer)
Mullins, Carol (Lighting designer)
Richards, Peter (Videographer)
Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995 (Author)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1990-09-25

Table Of Contents

Cassette 1 (ca. 42 min.) -- Cassette 2 (ca. 36 min.).

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 7681
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 9-4009 (former)

Subjects

Danspace Project (New York, N.Y.)

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Creation/Production Credits: presented by the Danspace Project ; direction and performance by Ann Papoulis.
Creation/Production Credits: Original songs, John King ; music, Yma Sumac, Cherubini, Laibach, Russian and Yugoslavian folk music ; text, Heiner Müller (Despoiled shore, Medeamaterial, Landscape with Argonauts) and an anonymous Yugoslavian writer ; costume, Katrin Schnabl ; lighting, Carol Mullins.
Venue: Videotaped in performance for the Danspace Video Archival Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York, on September 25, 1990, by Peter Richards.
Funding: Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Physical Description

Extent: 2 videocassettes (U-matic) (78 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY946040108-F
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12175803
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a46ca4f0-7b9c-0135-35b0-00356329ae75

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Medea" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1990. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a46ca4f0-7b9c-0135-35b0-00356329ae75

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1990). Medea Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a46ca4f0-7b9c-0135-35b0-00356329ae75

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Medea" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 14, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a46ca4f0-7b9c-0135-35b0-00356329ae75

Wikipedia citation

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