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Chorica excerpts from Greek drama

Title: Chorica [videorecording] : excerpts from Greek drama / produced by Kalamata International Dance Centre [in association with?] National Cultural Network of Cities, Ministry of Culture, and Kalamata's Municipal Organization for Cultural Advancement ; video director, Takis Chatzopoulos (Takis Hadjopoulos) ; artistic direction and choreography by ZouZou Nikoloudi.
Publication: Greece : Kalamata International Dance Centre, c1995.

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Description

1 videocassette (66 min.) : sd., col. PAL; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

For the accompanying leaflet in Greek and English, containing synopses, a brief biography of ZouZou Nikoloudi, and an essay by Nikoloudi on the re-creation of the chorus in ancient Greek drama, see *MGZR Nicoloudi, ZouZou. [Clippings].

Event (note)

Recorded in performance onstage.

Source (note)

ZouZou Nicoloudi.

Language (note)

Titles in Greek with some English translations. Transliterated names vary slightly on frame and on wrapper; alternate transliterations given in parentheses.

Contents

Agamemnon [excerpts] (ca. 16 min.) / play by Aeschylus ; modern Greek translation, Vassilis Rotas ; music, Nikiforos Rotas ; costumes, Maria Gazi ; performed by Yanna Philipopoulou (Yianna Filippopoulou) (Cassandra), Olga Tournaki (voice of Cassandra), and ensemble.
Characters from the Oresteia (translated on wrapper as Figures from the Oresteia) [excerpts] (ca. 14 min.) / music, Nikiforos Rotas ; costumes, Maria Gazi ; performed by Valia Papachristou (Electra), Stayroula (Stavrola) Siamou (Clytemnestra), Dimitri (Dimitris) Sotiriou (Aegistus), and Yiannis Giaples (Orestes).
The Eumenides [excerpts] (ca. 9 min.) / play by Aeschylus ; modern Greek translation, Yannis (Yiannis) Gryparis ; music, Nikiforos Rotas ; costumes, Maria Gazi ; performed by Stayroula (Stavroula) Siamou (the ghost of Clytemnestra), Elsa Vergi (voice of Clytemnestra), and ensemble.
The Bacchae [excerpts] (ca. 12 min.) / play by Euripides ; modern Greek translation, George Chimonas (Giorgos Heimonas) ; music, George (Giorgios) Kouroupos ; costumes, Yiannis Mentzikof ; performed by Eleni Tzarou (leader of the chorus), Andrianna Papanikolaou (Agave), and ensemble.
The birds [excerpts] (ca. 15 min.) / play by Aristophanes ; modern Greek translation, Vasilis Rotas ; music, Manos Hatzidakis (Hadjidakis) ; song, George Moutsios ; costumes, Maria Gazi ; performed by Lily Triantari (Lili Triadari) (Procne [Nightingale]), Dimitri Sotiriou (Epops [Hoopoe]), and ensemble.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-2315

OCLC

NYPY96-F539

Title

Chorica [videorecording] : excerpts from Greek drama / produced by Kalamata International Dance Centre [in association with?] National Cultural Network of Cities, Ministry of Culture, and Kalamata's Municipal Organization for Cultural Advancement ; video director, Takis Chatzopoulos (Takis Hadjopoulos) ; artistic direction and choreography by ZouZou Nikoloudi.

Imprint

Greece : Kalamata International Dance Centre, c1995.

Country of Producing Entity

Greece.

Performer

Performed by Chorica Dance Theatre Company.

Event

Recorded in performance onstage.

Language

Titles in Greek with some English translations. Transliterated names vary slightly on frame and on wrapper; alternate transliterations given in parentheses.

Source

Gift; ZouZou Nicoloudi.

Local Subject

Incidental dances.

Incidental dances. Agamemnon.

Greek dancing, Revivals of.

Drama and dance.

Added Author

Nicoloudi, ZouZou, choreographer.

Aeschylus. Author

Euripides. Author

Aristophanes. Author

Rōtas, Vasilēs. Translator

Rōtas, Nikēphoros. Composer

Gryparēs, I. N. (Iōannēs N.), 1870-1942. Translator

Cheimōnas, Giōrgos. Translator

Moutsios, Giōrgos. Composer

Kouroupos, Georg, 1942- Composer

Menzikof, Yiannis. Costume designer

Chatzidakēs, Manos, 1925- Composer

Chorica Dance Theatre Company.

Kalamata International Dance Centre.

Nicoloudi, ZouZou. Donor

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-2315

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