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Bach, Handel and the dance

Title: Bach, Handel and the dance [electronic resource] / presented by the New York Baroque Dance Company with Concert Royal in association with the French Institute/Alliance Française ; choreography, Catherine Turocy.
Publication: c1994.

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Description

2 streaming video files (NTSC) (89 min.) : sd., col.

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Historical re-creations.

Note

Recording made possible by the cooperation of the French Institute/Alliance Française, The New York Baroque Dance Company, Concert Royal, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.

Access (note)

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

Credits (note)

Artistic director, The New York Baroque Dance Company, Catherine Turocy ; artistic director, Concert Royal, James Richman ; company stock costumes, Marie Anne Chiment and Marilyn Skow ; additional costumes, The Juilliard School costume shop ; masks, Jane Stein ; lighting designer and stage manager, Stephen Cowles.

Performer (note)

Danced by The New York Baroque Dance Company: Patricia Beaman, Derek Clifford, Carlos Fittante, Rachel List, Keith Michael, Catherine Turocy, and Ani Udovicki.
Musicians: Concert Royal Orchestra, conductor, James Richman.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at Florence Gould Hall at the French Institute/Alliance Française, New York, on October 28, 1994, by Penny Ward.

Funding (note)

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Contents

Reel 1. Orchestral suite no. 1 in C major, BWV 1066 (ca. 25 min.) / music, Johann Sebastian Bach ; cast: Ouverture, performed by the orchestra -- Courante, performed by Carlos Fittante -- Gavotte I and II, performed by Ani Udovicki, Keith Michael, and Derek Clifford -- Forlane, performed by Michael -- Menuet I and II, performed respectively by the company and by Rachel List, Patricia Beaman, and Udovicki -- Bourrée I and II, performed respectively by List and Beaman and by Fittante, Michael, and Clifford -- Passepied I and II, performed by the company. Souvenirs from the eighteenth century.
Concerto grosso in G minor, Opus 6, no. 6 (ca. 15 min.) / music, Georg Friedrich Handel ; Largo affettuoso, A tempo giusto, Musette, Allegro, Allegro, performed by Catherine Turocy. A rehearsal studio in the Opera House.
Reel 2. Orchestral suite no. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (ca. 23 min.) / music, Bach ; cast: Ouverture, performed by the orchestra -- Rondeau, performed by Catherine Turocy and Carlos Fittante -- Sarabande, performed by Fittante -- Bourrée I and II, performed by Patricia Beaman and Keith Michael -- Polonaise, performed by Turocy, Fittante, Beaman, and Michael -- Menuet, performed by Turocy and Fittante -- Badinerie, performed by Turocy, Fittante, Michael, and Beaman. An evening in a salon.
Water music chamber suite (ca. 24 min.) / music, Handel ; cast: Air, performed by the orchestra -- Menuet I, performed by the company -- Boree I, performed by Ani Udovicki and Derek Clifford -- Hornpipe, performed by Keith Michael and Patricia Beaman [the Hornpipe and Boree I are erroneously listed in reverse order in credits] -- Menuet II and III, performed by Catherine Turocy and Carlos Fittante -- Country dance, performed by Turocy and Fittante -- Air lentement, performed by the company -- Boree II, performed by the company -- Coro, performed by the company. A picnic on the banks of the Thames.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 2334

OCLC

NYPY95-F458

Title

Bach, Handel and the dance [electronic resource] / presented by the New York Baroque Dance Company with Concert Royal in association with the French Institute/Alliance Française ; choreography, Catherine Turocy.

Imprint

c1994.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Danced by The New York Baroque Dance Company: Patricia Beaman, Derek Clifford, Carlos Fittante, Rachel List, Keith Michael, Catherine Turocy, and Ani Udovicki.

Musicians: Concert Royal Orchestra, conductor, James Richman.

Credits

Artistic director, The New York Baroque Dance Company, Catherine Turocy ; artistic director, Concert Royal, James Richman ; company stock costumes, Marie Anne Chiment and Marilyn Skow ; additional costumes, The Juilliard School costume shop ; masks, Jane Stein ; lighting designer and stage manager, Stephen Cowles.

Event

Videotaped in performance at Florence Gould Hall at the French Institute/Alliance Française, New York, on October 28, 1994, by Penny Ward.

Funding

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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 9-4663.

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Local Subject

Baroque dancing.

Choreography -- Reconstruction.

Mask dances.

Social dancing -- 18th century.

Added Author

Turocy, Catherine, choreographer.

Turocy, Catherine. Director

Turocy, Catherine, dancer.

Beaman, Patricia, dancer.

Clifford, Derek, dancer.

Fittante, Carlos, dancer.

List, Rachel, dancer.

Michael, Keith, dancer.

Udovicki, Ani, dancer.

Richman, James. Conductor

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Composer

Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Composer

Cowles, Stephen. Lighting designer

Chiment, Marie Anne. Costume designer

Skow, Marilyn. Costume designer

Stein, Jane Alois. Costume designer

Ward, Penny, videographer.

New York Baroque Dance Company.

Concert Royal (Musical group : U.S.)

French Institute/Alliance Française (U.S.)

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 2334

*MGZIC 9-4663 (former)

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