Inside Sam [and] Pieces of String

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Title

Inside Sam [and] Pieces of String

Collection

Claudia Gitelman Archive

Names

Gitelman, Claudia (Choreographer)
Gitelman, Claudia (Dancer)
Ragland, Patrick (Costume designer)
Garcia, Frank (Costume designer)
Otte, Gerald (Sound designer)
Martin, Randy (Dancer)
Croft-Murray, Rosalind (Dancer)
Diamond, Eric (Dancer)
Szablak, Christine (Dancer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1988-04-29

Table Of Contents

Inside Sam (1977) (15 min.) / costumes, Patrick Ragland ; sound, Gerald Otte ; dancers, Eric Diamond, Randy Martin -- Pieces of String (premiere) (36 min.) / music, Gerald Otte, John Barker, Franz Schubert, Daniel Goode, Scott Joplin, Hans-Joachim Rodelius and Dieter Moebius, Pauline Oliveros ; masks and costumes, Frank Garcia ; dancers, Rosalind Croft-Murray, Christine Szablak, Claudia Gitelman.

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2475

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Statement Of Responsibility: choreography by Claudia Gitelman.
Venue: Videotaped in rehearsal/performance at the Nikolais/Louis ChoreoSpace, New York, N.Y., 1988 April 29.
Acquisition: Gift; Alix I., Hillary, and Lisa Gitelman; 2013.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (52 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 903261464
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20528568
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b9c26850-9e87-0132-4a7a-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Inside Sam [and] Pieces of String" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1988. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b9c26850-9e87-0132-4a7a-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1988). Inside Sam [and] Pieces of String Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b9c26850-9e87-0132-4a7a-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Inside Sam [and] Pieces of String" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b9c26850-9e87-0132-4a7a-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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