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Dance Theatre of Harlem

Title: Dance Theatre of Harlem [videorecording] / artistic director, Arthur Mitchell.
Publication: c2001.

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Description

1 videocassette (75 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Part of Dance Theatre of Harlem's 2001 New York season, which was dedicated to Zelda Wynn.

Uniform Title

New Bach (Choreographic work : Garland)
Passion of the blood (Choreographic work : Van Heerden)
Dougla (Choreographic work : Holder)

Note

Accompanied by house program.
Recording made possible by the cooperation of Dance Theatre of Harlem, City Center, American Guild of Musical Artists (A.G.M.A.), American Federation of Musicians, Local 802, the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.), Local One, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at City Center, New York, N.Y., on October 5, 2001 ; video documentation directed by Robert Shepard ; edited by François Bernadi.

Funding (note)

This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Contents

New Bach (ca. 19 min.) / choreography, Robert Garland ; music, Johann Sebastian Bach (Violin concerto in A minor, BWV 1041) ; costumes, Pamela Allen-Cummings ; lighting, Roma Flowers ; cast: I, Allegro moderato / danced by Caroline Rocher and Eric Underwood, with William Smith, Antonio Douthit, Orlando Pagan, Iyun Harrison, Dionne Figgins, Leanne Codrington, Raintree Halpern, Amy Johnson -- II, Andante / danced by the entire cast -- III, Allegro assai / danced by the entire cast. Violinist, Deborah Wong.
Passion of the blood (ca. 32 min.) / choreography, Augustus van Heerden ; music, Jesús Villa Rojo (Cello concierto no. 2), Francisco Tárrega (Capricho arabe), Isaac Albéniz (Sevillanas from Suite española, Op. 47) ; scenario based on the play Bodas de sangre [Blood wedding] by Federico García Lorca ; costumes, Pamela Allen-Cummings ; set and forest projection, Maxine Willi Klein ; lighting, Roma Flowers ; danced by Ahmed Farouk (the groom) ; Chandra Moss (his mother) ; Ramon Thielen (Rafael) ; Caroline Rocher (his wife) ; Lenore Pavlakos (her mother) ; Kellye A. Saunders (the bride) ; James Washington (her father) ; Leanne Codrington (her maid) ; others. Cellist, Eugene Moye ; guitarist, Scott Kuney.
Dougla (ca. 22 min.) / choreography, music, and costumes, Geoffrey Holder, assisted by Avind Harum ; music arranged by Tania Léon ; costume execution, Zelda Wynn ; lighting, Paul Sullivan ; danced by Mark Burns and Paunika Jones, with Kevin Thomas, James Washington, Orlando Pagan, Eric Underwood, Claudio Sandoval, William Smith, Ramon Thielen, Antonio Douthit, Ahmed Farouk, Preston Dugger, Ikolo Griffin, Iyun Harrison, Akua Parker, Leanne Codrington, Melissa Morrissey, Lynda Sing, Jarina Carvalho, Christiane Cristo, Raintree Halpern, Rejane Duarte, Chandra Moss, Nicole Stoner, Amy Johnson, Ebony Haswell, Dionne Figgins, Naimah Willoughby (Dougla people) ; Lenore Pavlakos (woman in green), with Claudio Sandoval, William Smith, Orlando Pagan, Preston Dugger, Antonio Douthit, Eric Underwood ; Mark Burns and Paunika Jones (pas de deux) ; Rejane Duarte, Christiane Cristo, Nicole Stoner (women in black) ; Kevin Thomas, Ramon Thielen (acrobats) ; James Washington (stickman).

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5435

OCLC

NYPY02-F359

Title

Dance Theatre of Harlem [videorecording] / artistic director, Arthur Mitchell.

Imprint

c2001.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Videotaped in performance at City Center, New York, N.Y., on October 5, 2001 ; video documentation directed by Robert Shepard ; edited by François Bernadi.

Performer

Performed by Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Conductor: Joseph E. Fields.

Funding

This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

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

Added Author

Rocher, Caroline, dancer.

Underwood, Eric, dancer.

Farouk, Ahmad, dancer.

Moss, Chandra, dancer.

Thielen, Ramon, dancer.

Pavlakos, Lenore, dancer.

Saunders, Kellye A., dancer.

Washington, James, dancer.

Codrington, Leanne, dancer.

Burns, Mark, dancer.

Jones, Paunika, dancer.

Duarte, Rejane, dancer.

Cristo, Christiane, dancer.

Stoner, Nicole, dancer.

Thomas, Kevin (Dancer)

Fields, Joseph E., conductor.

Moye, Eugene, instrumentalist.

Kuney, Scott, instrumentalist.

Garland, Robert (Dancer), choreographer.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, composer.

Allen-Cummings, Pamela, costume designer.

Flowers, Roma, lighting designer.

Van Heerden, Augustus, choreographer.

Villa Rojo, Jesús, composer.

Tárrega, Francisco, 1852-1909, composer.

Albéniz, Isaac, 1860-1909, composer.

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936.

Klein, Maxine W., designer.

Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014, choreographer.

Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014, composer.

Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014, costume designer.

Harum, Eivind.

León, Tania, arranger of music.

Valdes, Zelda Wynn, costume designer.

Sullivan, Paul, lighting designer.

Mitchell, Arthur, 1934-2018, director.

Shepard, Bobby, director.

Bernadi, François, filmmaker.

Dance Theatre of Harlem.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.

Added Title

New Bach (Choreographic work : Garland)

Passion of the blood (Choreographic work : Van Heerden)

Dougla (Choreographic work : Holder)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5435

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