Escaras

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Title

Escaras

Collection

Manuel Alum Video Archive

Names

Bruce, Christopher (Dancer)
Blaikie, Julia (Dancer)
Burge, Lucy (Dancer)
Williams, Marilyn (Dancer)
Yamada, Sylvia (Dancer)
Brown, Blake (Dancer)
Hodiak, Keith (Dancer)
Scoglio, Joseph (Dancer)
Alum, Manuel (Choreographer)
Krauze, Zygmunt (Composer)
Szalonek, Witold (Composer)
Anderton, John (Lighting designer)
Ballet Rambert (Performer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1974
Place: London

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 9635
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 9-4864 (former)

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Statement Of Responsibility: choreography and design by Manuel Alum ; music by Zygmunt Krauze (Polychromie) and Witold Szalonek (Improvisations sonoristiques).
Source Note: Title from information provided by donor.
Reproduction: Image copied from a video monitor; numerous technical problems (poor focus, darkness, tracking flaws, jumpiness) occur on that monitor and cannot be corrected.
Performers: Danced by Ballet Rambert: Christopher Bruce, Julia Blaikie, Lucy Burge, Marilyn Williams, Sylvia Yamada, Blake Brown, Keith Hodiak, and Joseph Scoglio.
Venue: First segment (ca. 22 min.): videotaped in stage rehearsal, partly in costume and partly in rehearsal clothes, with lighting, at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England, in November 1974.
Venue: Second segment (ca. 38 min.): videotaped in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, in London, England, in November 1974.
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) (60 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4 in

Abstract

Two rehearsals of a work first performed by Ballet Rambert at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, England, on November 7, 1974. In the studio rehearsal, the sections are rehearsed out of sequence, and some are repeated.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY96-F62
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12392963
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d4a9f910-7a18-0135-17ea-5b71bba0c56f

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Escaras" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1974. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d4a9f910-7a18-0135-17ea-5b71bba0c56f

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1974). Escaras Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d4a9f910-7a18-0135-17ea-5b71bba0c56f

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Escaras" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d4a9f910-7a18-0135-17ea-5b71bba0c56f

Wikipedia citation

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