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Atlas

Title
Atlas [videorecording] / choreography, direction, music, Meredith Monk.
Publication
1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Monk, Meredith
  • Arévalo, Carlos.
  • Bogdan, Thomas.
  • Boomsma, Victoria.
  • Brenner, Janis.
  • Chen, Shizheng.
  • Easter, Allison.
  • Een, Robert.
  • Emerson, Dina.
  • Eyre, Emily.
  • Geissinger, Katie.
  • Gonzalez, Ching.
  • Gross, Sally.
  • Hanchard, Dana.
  • Hill, Wendy.
  • Kalm, Stephen.
  • Osborne, Robert.
  • Pauley, Wilbur.
  • Wong, Randall K.
  • Yabara, Yoshio.
  • Cohen, Debby Lee.
  • Emmons, Beverly
  • Geary, David.
  • Robison, Mark (Cameraman)
  • Vela, Pablo.
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music. Next Wave Festival.
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  • House Foundation for the Arts.
Description
4 videodiscs (NTSC) (193 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Uniform Title
Atlas (Choreographic work : Monk)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Note
  • Opera in three parts, inspired by the life and writings of explorer Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969).
  • Presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music in association with The House Foundation for the Arts.
Access (note)
  • Permission required.
Credits (note)
  • Associate direction, Pablo Vela; musical direction/conductor, Wayne Hankin; scenario, Monk in collaboration with Yoshio Yabara and Vela; text, Monk, Vela, and members of ensemble; art direction/costumes, Yoshio Yabara; scenery, Debby Lee Cohen and Yabara; film, David Gearey; lighting, Beverly Emmons.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in performance by Mark Robison of Character Generators/Video at the Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, on May 15, 1992.
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.
Contents
  • Disc 1 (ca. 60 min.): Part I, Personal climate: Overture. Home scenes (1) and travel dream song. Home scenes (2). The call (future quest). Future quest film. Rite of passage A. Choosing companions. Airport. -- Part II, Night travel: Night travel. Agricultural community.
  • Disc 2 (ca. 24 min.): Part II, Night travel: Night travel. Agricultural community. [The first 15 min. of this cassette duplicates footage on cassette 1.]
  • Disc 3 (ca. 61 min.): Two worlds (loss song). Campfire/hungry ghost. Father's hope. Long shadows/Arctic bar/ice demons. Lesson/explorers' procession. Lonely spirit. Forest questions. Desert tango. Treachery (Temptation). Possibility of destruction [incomplete].
  • Disc 4 (ca. 41 min.): Treachery. Possibility of destruction. [These sections appear twice on this cassette. The first 4 min. of this cassette duplicate footage on cassette 3.] -- Part III, Invisible light: Out of body. Other worlds revealed. Explorers' junctures. Earth seen from above. Rite of passage B. Returning to earth and conclusion.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-622
OCLC
NYPY936048099-F
Title
Atlas [videorecording] / choreography, direction, music, Meredith Monk.
Imprint
1992.
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
Credits
Associate direction, Pablo Vela; musical direction/conductor, Wayne Hankin; scenario, Monk in collaboration with Yoshio Yabara and Vela; text, Monk, Vela, and members of ensemble; art direction/costumes, Yoshio Yabara; scenery, Debby Lee Cohen and Yabara; film, David Gearey; lighting, Beverly Emmons.
Performer
Performed by Carlos Arévalo, Thomas Bogdan, Victoria Boomsma, Janis Brenner, Chen Shizheng, Allison Easter, Robert Een, Dina Emerson, Emily Eyre, Katie Geissinger, Ching Gonzalez, Sally Gross, Dana Hanchard, Wendy Hill, Stephen Kalm, Meredith Monk, Robert Osborne, Wilbur Pauley, and Randall Wong.
Partial cast (in order of appearance): Part I, Personal climate: Hill (mother), Bogdan (father), Emerson (Alexandra at 13), Gonzalez and Easter (guides), Monk (Alexandra from 25-45), Chen (Cheng Qing), Kalm (Franco Hartmann), Een (Erik Magnussen). Part II, Night travel: Gonzalez and Easter (guides); Geissinger, Arévalo, and ensemble (agricultural community); Brenner and Osborne (hungry ghost); Monk and Een (long shadows); Hanchard, Arévalo, and Brenner (Arctic bar dancers); Osborne (bartender); Emerson (waitress); Hanchard (explorer #5 - Gwen St. Clair); Wong, Boomsma, Geissinger, and Hill (ice demons); Wong (lonely spirit); Osborne (ancient man). Part III, Invisible light: Osborne, Wong, and Boomsma (out of body); Monk, Chen, Kalm, and Hanchard (explorers); Gonzalez and Easter (guides); Gross (Alexandra at 60).
Event
Videotaped in performance by Mark Robison of Character Generators/Video at the Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, on May 15, 1992.
Restricted Access
Permission required.
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 9-3635.
Local Subject
Television. Atlas.
Added Author
Monk, Meredith, director.
Monk, Meredith, choreographer.
Monk, Meredith, composer.
Monk, Meredith, librettist.
Monk, Meredith, performer.
Arévalo, Carlos. Performer
Bogdan, Thomas. Performer
Boomsma, Victoria. Performer
Brenner, Janis. Performer
Chen, Shizheng. Performer
Easter, Allison. Performer
Een, Robert. Performer
Emerson, Dina. Performer
Eyre, Emily. Performer
Geissinger, Katie. Performer
Gonzalez, Ching. Performer
Gross, Sally. Performer
Hanchard, Dana. Performer
Hill, Wendy. Performer
Kalm, Stephen. Performer
Osborne, Robert. Performer
Pauley, Wilbur. Performer
Wong, Randall K. Performer
Yabara, Yoshio. Scenarist. Costume designer. Designer
Cohen, Debby Lee. Designer
Emmons, Beverly, lighting designer.
Geary, David. Cinematographer
Robison, Mark (Cameraman), videographer.
Vela, Pablo. Director. Scenarist
Brooklyn Academy of Music. Next Wave Festival.
Brooklyn Academy of Music.
House Foundation for the Arts.
Added Title
Atlas (Choreographic work : Monk)
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-622
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