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Conversations about the dance
- Title
- Conversations about the dance [videorecording].
- Publication
- 1977.
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Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 5-1821 disc 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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 5-1821 disc 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 2 videodiscs (NTSC) (63 min.) : sd., b&w; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Rehearsal for the first half of Agnes de Mille's lecture-demonstration Conversations about the dance, an overview of dance in the United States. De Mille's voice can be heard from off-camera, speaking the narration and directing the dancers, but her words are not always intelligible. Some of the dances include repetitions and false starts.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Agnes de Mille Collection.
- Uniform Title
- Conversations about the dance (Choreographic work)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Note
- Original tapes accompanied by typewritten note giving date and list of contents.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in studio rehearsal at City Center, New York, in rehearsal clothes with piano accompaniment, in Nov. 1977.
- 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 (33 min.): Exercises for dynamics -- Exercises for dramatic mime -- Rodeo [excerpt] / choreography, Agnes de Mille ; music, Aaron Copland ; danced by Russell Sultzbach and men's ensemble -- Jacobean dances: Step Stately [English country dance], Galliarde, Volta -- Square dance -- Minuet / music, Exaudet.
- Disc 2 (30 min.): Rigaudon / music, Rameau ; danced by Francesca Corkle -- African dance / man's solo danced by Mel Tomlinson ; woman's solo danced by Cynthia Penn ; also includes slaves' quintet and cakewalk -- Irish jig / danced by James Jamieson (seated) -- Ragtime / danced by Mel Tomlinson and two men, probably Jeffery Ferguson and Wesley Robinson -- [Tap dance solo] / danced by Honi Coles.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-1821
- OCLC
- NYPY97-F6
- Title
- Conversations about the dance [videorecording].
- Imprint
- 1977.
- Performer
- Danced by members of the Joffrey Ballet.Guest artists: Honi Coles, Mel Tomlinson.Narrator [off-camera]: Agnes de Mille.
- Event
- Videotaped in studio rehearsal at City Center, New York, in rehearsal clothes with piano accompaniment, in Nov. 1977.
- 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 5-1821.
- Local Subject
- Square, round and contra dancing.Galliard (Dance)Volta (Dance)Rigaudon (Dance)
- Added Author
- De Mille, Agnes, choreographer.De Mille, Agnes, narrator.Coles, Honi, 1911-1992, dancer.Corkle, Francesca, dancer.Sultzbach, Russell, dancer.Penn, Cynthia, dancer.Tomlinson, Mel, dancer.Jamieson, James, dancer.Ferguson, Jeffery, dancer.Robinson, Wesley, -1993, dancer.Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. ComposerExaudet, André Joseph, approximately 1710-1762. ComposerRameau, Jean Philippe, 1683-1764. ComposerJoffrey Ballet.DHCA.De Mille, Agnes. Rodeo.
- Added Title
- Conversations about the dance (Choreographic work)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-1821