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Antigone/Rites for the dead

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (85 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Cinedance based on Sophocles' plays Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Agnes de Mille.

Note

An Eclipse Production. Re-released in 1990 by Mystic Fire Video, New York under the title Antigone/Rites of passion.
Producer/director/screenplay: Amy Greenfield. Directors of photography: Hilary Harris, Judy Irola.
Choreography: Amy Greenfield. Music: Glenn Branca, Diamanda Galas, David Van Tieghem, Elliott Sharp, Paul Lemos.
Performed by Bertram Ross (Oedipus/Creon), Janet Eilber (Ismene), Amy Greenfield (Antigone), Sean McElroy (Haemon), Henry Montes (Polynices), Silvio Facchin (Eteocles), and others. Voices: Bertram Ross (Oedipus/Creon), Maeve Kinkead (Ismene), Alan Howard (Haemon/Polynices), Amy Greenfield (Antigone).

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1388

ISBN

1561762318

OCLC

NYPY926053101-F

Title

Antigone/Rites for the dead [videorecording]

Imprint

c1989.

Local Subject

Motion pictures. Antigone/Rites for the dead.

Added Author

Greenfield, Amy, choreographer, dancer. Producer. Director. Screenwriter

Ross, Bertram, 1920-2003, dancer.

Eilber, Janet, dancer.

McElroy, Sean, dancer.

Montes, Henry, dancer.

Facchin, Silvio, dancer.

Sophocles. Author

Branca, Glenn, 1948-2018, composer.

Galás, Diamánda. Composer

Van Tieghem, David, composer.

Sharp, Elliott. Composer

Lemos, Paul. Composer

Harris, Hilary. Photographer

Irola, Judy. Photographer

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1388