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West Side story suite [excerpts] rehearsal.

Title: West Side story suite [excerpts] [videorecording] : rehearsal. Mar. 29, 1995 / choreography by Jerome Robbins; music by Leonard Bernstein; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Publication: 1995.

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Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (115 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Jerome Robbins, assisted by ballet masters Jean-Pierre Frohlich, Victor Castelli and James Moore, directs a rehearsal of West Side story suite. In this session sections of the ballet are rehearsed by first and second casts and covers.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of New York City Ballet.

Uniform Title

West Side story suite (Choreographic work : Robbins)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.

Event (note)

Videotaped in New York City Ballet studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, in New York City, on Mar. 29, 1995.

System Details (note)

DVD.

Biography (note)

West Side story suite had its New York City Ballet premiere on May 18, 1995, with guest artists Nancy Ticotin and Natalie Toro.

Contents

Disc 1. Dance at the gym / rehearsed by Robert La Fosse, Yvonne Borree, Nikolaj Hübbe, Jock Soto, Nancy Ticotin and others (32 min.) -- Prologue / rehearsed by Nikolaj Hübbe, Robert La Fosse, Christopher Wheeldon, Russell Kaiser, Sébastien Marcovici, Jock Soto, Arch Higgins, Alex Ritter, Tom Gold, Sant'gria Bello, Edward Liang, Christopher Macdougall, and others (8 min.) -- Somewhere ballet / rehearsed by Robert La Fosse, Yvonne Borree, Tom Gold, and others (9 min.) -- America / rehearsed by Nancy Ticotin, Andrea Long, Michele Gifford, Kristina Fernandez, Riolama Lorenzo (7 min.) -- Rumble / rehearsed by Nikolaj Hübbe, Jock Soto, Robert La Fosse, and others (4 min.)
Disc 2. Rumble (cont'd from disc 1) (4 min) -- Prologue / rehearsed by Ethan Stiefel, Philip Neal, James Fayette, William Otto, Richard Marsden, Christopher Macdougall, Sant'gria Bello, Tom Gold and others (20 min.) -- Somewhere ballet / rehearsed by Elena Diner, Philip Neal, Alex Ritter, Michele Gifford, Christopher Macdougall, Sébastien Marcovici, Edward Liang and others (13 min.) -- Rumble / rehearsed by Ethan Stiefel, James Fayette, Philip Neal, and others (12 min.) -- America / rehearsed by Helene Alexopoulos, Amanda Edge, Samantha Allen, Deanna McBrearty (6 min.)

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-507

OCLC

NYPG05-F10379

Title

West Side story suite [excerpts] [videorecording] : rehearsal. Mar. 29, 1995 / choreography by Jerome Robbins; music by Leonard Bernstein; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Imprint

1995.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Rehearsed by members of New York City Ballet, including Robert La Fosse (Tony), Philip Neal (Tony, 2nd cast), Yvonne Borree (Maria), Elena Diner (Maria, 2nd cast) Jock Soto (Bernardo), James Fayette (Bernardo, 2nd cast), Nancy Ticotin (Anita), Helene Alexopoulos (Anita, 2nd cast), Nikolaj Hübbe (Riff), Ethan Stiefel (Riff, 2nd cast), and Michele Gifford, Jennifer Tinsley, Kristina Fernandez, Samantha Allen, Amanda Edge, Lydia Harmsen, Riolama Lorenzo, Andrea Long, Deanna McBrearty, Rachel Rutherford, Emily Coates, Pauline Golbin, Christopher Wheeldon, Sébastien Marcovici, Russell Kaiser, Arch Higgins, Tom Gold, Edward Liang, Alexander Ritter, Sant'gria Bello, Peter Hansen, Andrew Robertson, Christopher Macdougall, Richard Marsden, Benjamin Bowman, Espen Giljane, Robert Wersinger, William Otto, and others.

Event

Videotaped in New York City Ballet studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, in New York City, on Mar. 29, 1995.

System Details

DVD.

Biography

West Side story suite had its New York City Ballet premiere on May 18, 1995, with guest artists Nancy Ticotin and Natalie Toro.

Added Author

Robbins, Jerome, choreographer. Director

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. West Side story.

Sondheim, Stephen. Lyricist

Frohlich, Jean Pierre. Director

Castelli, Victor. Director

Moore, James, 1930 Dec. 12- Director

La Fosse, Robert, dancer.

Neal, Philip, 1968- dancer.

Borree, Yvonne, dancer.

Soto, Jock, dancer.

Ticotin, Nancy, dancer. Singer

Hübbe, Nikolaj, dancer. Singer

Stiefel, Ethan, dancer. Singer

Diner, Elena, dancer.

Fayette, James, dancer.

Alexopoulos, Helene, dancer. Singer

Wheeldon, Christopher, dancer.

Marcovici, Sébastien, 1975- dancer.

Kaiser, Russell, dancer.

Higgins, Arch, dancer.

Gold, Tom, dancer.

Liang, Edward, dancer.

Ritter, Alexander, dancer.

Bello, Sant'gria, dancer.

Long, Andrea, 1966- dancer.

McBrearty, Deanna, dancer.

Edge, Amanda, dancer.

Allen, Samantha, dancer.

Gifford, Michele, dancer.

Tinsley, Jennifer, dancer.

Fernández, Kristina, dancer.

Harmsen, Lydia, dancer.

Lorenzo, Riolama, dancer.

Hansen, Peter, dancer.

Robertson, Andrew, dancer.

Macdougall, Christopher, dancer.

Marsden, Richard, dancer.

Rutherford, Rachel, dancer.

Bowman, Benjamin, dancer.

Otto, William, 1958- dancer.

Wersinger, Robert, dancer.

Giljane, Espen, dancer.

Coates, Emily, dancer.

Golbin, Pauline, dancer.

New York City Ballet.

Added Title

West Side story suite (Choreographic work : Robbins)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-507

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