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Musign

Title: Musign [videorecording] / choreography/direction, Rita Corey.
Publication: 1984.

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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 5-2683 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 5-2683 disc 2	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 3	Moving image	Use in library	*MGZIDVD 5-2683 disc 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

3 videodiscs (NTSC) (122 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Dance theater works by a company of deaf performers working in music, dance, and American Sign Language. Members of Hands On, a producer of sign-interpreted performances, join the cast for a discussion (much of it in American Sign Language) with the audience at the end of cassette 2. Hands On staff: Candace Brecker, Janis Cole, Janet Harris, and Beth Prevor.

Alternative Title

New ventures

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Presented by Dance Theater Workshop during the Winter Events 1984.
The butterbean and the blockhead in Silent movie performed by Lynn Mason.

Credits (note)

Lighting, Scott Laird.

Event (note)

Videotaped by Video D Studios for the Dance/Video Access project at the Bessie Schönberg Theater, New York, in performance on April 18 (?), 1984 (cassettes 1 and 2), and in dress rehearsal, under work lights, on April 9, 1984 (cassette 3).

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 (38 min.): Good vibrations: Hello hooray / music, Alice Cooper -- What I should've done tonight / music, Musical Chair -- I'm shakin' / music, Blasters -- Love hurts / music, Nazareth -- Nothing / music, excerpt from A chorus line -- Main title / music, Silent movie -- On Interstate 15 / music, Wall of Voodoo -- Be good Johnny / music, Men at work -- Butterbean / music, B52's -- That's good / music, Devo.
Disc 2 (45 min.): Burnin' rubber II (30 min.): Say man / music, Bo Diddley -- Train to nowhere / contributing choreographer, John Pasqualetti ; music, The Champs -- My boy Elvis / music, Janis Martin -- Up on the mountain / music, Flash Cadillac -- Tell him no / music, Flash Cadillac -- Chantilly lace / music, Sha Na Na -- At the hop / contributing choreographer, Crispin Pierce ; music, Danny and the Juniors -- Lover never say goodbye / music, Sha Na Na -- Rock 'n' roll is here to stay / music, Sha Na Na -- Discussion (15 min.).
Disc 3 (38 min.): Same program as disc 1.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2683

OCLC

NYPY936056298-F

Title

Musign [videorecording] / choreography/direction, Rita Corey.

Imprint

1984.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Credits

Lighting, Scott Laird.

Performer

Performed by Musign: Rita Corey, Bob Hiltermann, and Ed Chevy, with Lynn Mason.

Event

Videotaped by Video D Studios for the Dance/Video Access project at the Bessie Schönberg Theater, New York, in performance on April 18 (?), 1984 (cassettes 1 and 2), and in dress rehearsal, under work lights, on April 9, 1984 (cassette 3).

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 9-3832.

Local Subject

Sign-interpreted performances.

Added Author

Corey, Rita, dancer.

Corey, Rita, choreographer.

Corey, Rita. Director

Hiltermann, Bob, dancer.

Chevy, Ed, dancer.

Mason, Lynn, dancer.

Laird, Scott. Lighting designer

Brecker, Candace.

Cole, Janis.

Harris, Janet.

Prevor, Beth.

Pasqualetti, John, choreographer.

Pierce, Crispin, choreographer.

Bo Diddley, 1928-2008. Composer

Martin, Janis, 1940- Composer

Musign Theatre Company.

Hands On (Organization)

Alice Cooper (Musical group)

Blasters (Musical group)

Nazareth (Musical group)

Wall of Voodoo (Musical group)

B-52's (Musical group)

Devo (Musical group)

Champs (Musical group)

Flash Cadillac (Musical group)

Sha Na Na (Musical group)

Danny & the Juniors.

Dance Theater Workshop.

Video D Studios.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2683

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