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The nutcracker

Title: The nutcracker [videorecording] / conception/direction/choreography, Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Publication: 1976.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 1	Moving image	Use in library	*MGZIDVD 5-1856 disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 2	Moving image	Use in library	*MGZIDVD 5-1856 disc 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (90 min.) : sd., b&w; 4 3/4 in.

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Credits (note)

Choreography for "Waltz of the snowflakes", Vasily Vainonen; music, Peter Tchaikovsky; scenery, Boris Aronson; costumes, Frank Thompson; lighting, Jennifer Tipton.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the Opera House, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., on Dec. 28, 1976.

Funding (note)

This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System Details (note)

DVD.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1856

OCLC

NYPY906021275-F

Title

The nutcracker [videorecording] / conception/direction/choreography, Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Imprint

1976.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Credits

Choreography for "Waltz of the snowflakes", Vasily Vainonen; music, Peter Tchaikovsky; scenery, Boris Aronson; costumes, Frank Thompson; lighting, Jennifer Tipton.

Performer

Performed by members of American Ballet Theatre: cast, Natalia Makarova (Clara), Mikhail Baryshnikov (Nutcracker-prince), Alexander Minz (Drosselmeyer); Act I: Miguel Sanchez (Harlequin), Rebecca Wright (Doll), George de la Peña (Moor), Marcos Paredes (King of mice), and others; Act II: Jolinda Menendez and Clark Tippet (Spanish dance), Hilda Morales and Peter Fonseca (Chinese dance), Aurea Hammerli and Warren Conover (Shepherds), de la Peña and Brian Adams (Russian dance), and others.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Opera House, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., on Dec. 28, 1976.

Funding

This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System Details

DVD.

Local Note

Former classmark: *MGZIC 9-1495.

Slight tape damage. Filter and bells used to restrict taping.

Added Author

Makarova, Natalia, 1940- dancer.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- choreographer.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- dancer.

Minz, Alexander, dancer.

Wright, Rebecca, 1947-2006, dancer.

De la Pena, George, dancer.

Paredes, Marcos, dancer.

Menendez, Jolinda, dancer.

Morales, Hilda, dancer.

Fonseca, Peter, dancer.

Hammerli, Aurea, dancer.

Conover, Warren, dancer.

Sanchez, Miguel, dancer.

Tippet, Clark, dancer.

Adams, Brian, dancer.

Vaĭnonen, V., choreographer.

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Composer

Aronson, Boris, 1900-1980, set designer.

Thompson, Frank L., 1920-1977, costume designer.

Tipton, Jennifer, lighting designer.

American Ballet Theatre.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- Nutcracker.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1856

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