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Richard Alston

Title: Richard Alston [electronic resource]
Publication: 1982.

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Description

1 streaming video file (PAL) (52 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

Documentary on Richard Alston, resident choreographer of Ballet Rambert, who discusses his background and approach to choreography. His comments are illustrated with footage of his works Night music, The rite of spring, Soda lake, Rainbow ripples, and Bellezza flash (the last commissioned by the South Bank Show). He is also seen rehearsing Bellezza flash with Tom Jobe, Siobhan Davies, and Michael Clark.

Uniform Title

Night music (Choreographic work : Alston)
Soda lake (Choreographic work : Alston)
Rainbow ripples (Choreographic work : Alston)
Rite of spring (Choreographic work : Alston)
Bellezza flash (Choreographic work : Alston)
South Bank show (Television program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Note

Subtitle: Working with bodies. Telecast on London Weekend Television's The South Bank Show on March 14, 1982. Producer/director: Tony Cash. Executive producer: Nick Elliott. Host: Melvyn Bragg.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding (note)

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Contents

DANCE CONTENTS: Night music: Excerpt. Music: W. A. Mozart. Scenery: Howard Hodgkin. Danced by Lucy Burge, Frances Carty, and Jkky Maas. -- The rite of spring: Excerpt. Music: Igor Stravinsky (version for piano duet, revised 1947). Scenery/lighting: Peter Mumford. Costumes: Anne Guyon. Danced by Carty, Siobhan Davies, and Burge. -- Soda lake. Performed in silence. Sculpture: Nigel Hall. Danced by Michael Clark. -- Rainbow ripples: Excerpt. Score: Charles Amirkhanian. Scenery: David Buckland. Danced by Clark, Maas, and Carty. -- Bellezza flash. Music: Claudio Monteverdi. Danced by Tom Jobe, Davies, and Clark.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 8585

OCLC

NYPY916038157-F

Title

Richard Alston [electronic resource]

Imprint

1982.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-2542.

Additional Copy 1: None.

Additional Copy 2: 3/4" videocassette (PAL), copied from A.O., 3/90; in Princeton ReCAP Regular Storage; was vid. viewing copy until 9/2017.

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Local Subject

Television. Richard Alston.

Added Author

Alston, Richard, 1948- choreographer. Commentator

Jobe, Tom, dancer.

Davies, Siobhan, 1950- dancer.

Clark, Michael, 1962- dancer.

Burge, Lucy, dancer.

Carty, Frances, dancer.

Maas, Jkky, dancer.

Hodgkin, Howard, 1932-2017. Designer

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Composer

Amirkhanian, Charles. Composer

Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Composer

Buckland, David. Designer

Guyon, Anne. Costume designer

Mumford, Peter, 1946- Set designer

Mumford, Peter, 1946- Lighting designer

Hall, Nigel, 1943- Sculptor

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Composer

Cash, Tony, 1933- producer.

Cash, Tony, 1933- director.

Ballet Rambert.

Added Title

Night music (Choreographic work : Alston)

Soda lake (Choreographic work : Alston)

Rainbow ripples (Choreographic work : Alston)

Rite of spring (Choreographic work : Alston)

Bellezza flash (Choreographic work : Alston)

South Bank show (Television program)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 8585

*MGZIC 9-2542 (former)

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