Research Catalog

Title

[Xoregos Performing Company of San Francisco] [electronic resource]

Publication

1975.

Details

Additional Authors

• Xoregos, Shela
• Lathrop, Welland
• Pinska, Klarna
• Gilmore, Jeannie
• Lincoln, Kim
• Heffelfinger, Elizabeth
• Clare, Paula
• Gruber, Janice
• Berrier, Diane
• St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968
• Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972
• Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958
• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
• Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972
• Xoregos Dance Company (San Francisco, Calif.)
• DHCA.

Description

1 streaming video file (NTSC) (22 min.) : sd., b&w

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Shela Xoregos.

Uniform Title

• Partita (Choreographic work : Lathrop)
• Sonata pathétique (Choreographic work : St. Denis and Humphrey)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Title from information provided by donor.

Access (note)

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

Performer (note)

• Performed by the Xoregos Performing Company of San Francisco.
• Introduced by Shela Xoregos, company director.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in San Francisco, California, in May 1975.

Funding (note)

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

Contents

• Demonstration of the women's costume for Partita (ca. 3 min.) / recorded onstage ; choreography and costumes, Welland Lathrop. Dancer Jeannie Gilmore demonstrates the different ways in which costume is draped for the various sections of the work, and performs characteristic steps. Lathrop provides a voice-over description of the costume, and appears briefly on camera.
• Discussion of Denishawn dances (ca. 11 min.) / by Klarna Pinska, who demonstrates movements from Ruth St. Denis's Nautch dance, Ted Shawn's Two-part invention [also titled Bach], and the single scarf techniques developed by Pinska after Doris Humphrey. Dancer Kim Lincoln demonstrates some of the single scarf movements.
• Sonata pathètique (ca. 11 min.) / recorded in the studio, in rehearsal clothes ; choreography, Ruth St. Denis and Doris Humphrey, restaged by Klarna Pinska ; music, Beethoven ; performed by Betsy Heffelfinger with Jeannie Gilmore, Paula Clare, Janice Gruber, Kim Lincoln, Vickie Zunika (?), and Diane Berrier. In her introduction, Pinska calls this work Sonata tragica.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 9736

OCLC

NYPY95-F550

Title

[Xoregos Performing Company of San Francisco] [electronic resource]

Imprint

1975.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Performed by the Xoregos Performing Company of San Francisco.

Introduced by Shela Xoregos, company director.

Event

Videotaped in San Francisco, California, in May 1975.

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 9-4431.

Additional Copy 1: 1 3/4" videocassette, copied from A.O., 9/94; in Princeton ReCAP Regular Storage.

Additional Copy 2: 1 3/4" videocassette, copied from A.O., 9/94; in Princeton ReCAP Regular Storage; was vid. viewing copy until 4/2017.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Choreography -- Reconstruction.

Denishawn dances, Revivals of.

Added Author

Xoregos, Shela. Speaker

Lathrop, Welland, choreographer. Costume designer. Commentator

Pinska, Klarna. cmm, dancer. Restager

Gilmore, Jeannie, dancer.

Lincoln, Kim, dancer.

Heffelfinger, Elizabeth, dancer.

Clare, Paula, dancer.

Gruber, Janice, dancer.

Berrier, Diane, dancer.

St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968, choreographer.

Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972, choreographer.

Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958, choreographer.

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Composer

Xoregos Dance Company (San Francisco, Calif.)

DHCA.

Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972. Two part invention, no 4.

Added Title

Partita (Choreographic work : Lathrop)

Sonata pathétique (Choreographic work : St. Denis and Humphrey)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 9736

*MGZIC 9-4431 (former)