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Remembering Pearl [Lang]
- Title
- Remembering Pearl [Lang] [videorecording] / [presented by the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance].
- Publication
- c2009.
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Speakers discuss and pay tribute to the choreographer and dancer Pearl Lang.
- Alternative Title
- Pearl Lang memorial
- Dream voyages (Choreographic work : Lang)
- Tehillim (Choreographic work : Lang)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Filmed dance.
- Filmed performances.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Note
- Widescreen.
- Film excerpts in the introduction include Pearl Lang dancing in Martha Graham's Letter to the world, and Pearl Lang's Shirah and The possessed.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in performance during memorial at the Joyce Theater, New York, N.Y., on June 26, 2009.
- System Details (note)
- DVD.
- Source (note)
- Nancy Stevens;
- Contents
- Introduction and film excerpts (13 min.) / speakers, Ellen Graff and Martha Wiseman (Pearl Lang's step-daughter) -- Diversion of angels (red duet excerpt) (2 min.) / choreography, Martha Graham -- Mary Hinkson (3 min.) -- Denise Jefferson (8 min.) -- Virginie Mécène (3 min.) -- Class with Pearl (with film excerpts of Pearl Lang teaching) (10 min.) / dancers, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance students -- Ken Billington (6 min.) -- Nancy Stevens (8 min.) -- Dream voyages (11 min.) / choreographed by Pearl Lang in collaboration with Kevin Predmore ; dancer, Kevin Predmore? -- Ellen Graff (reading of Christine Dakin letter) (3 min.) -- Ian Betts (7 min.) -- Tehillim (7 min.) / choreography, Pearl Lang -- Ellen Graff (thank you and closing) (1 min.).
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-7014
- OCLC
- 780096037
- Title
- Remembering Pearl [Lang] [videorecording] / [presented by the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance].
- Imprint
- c2009.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- System Details
- DVD.
- Event
- Videotaped in performance during memorial at the Joyce Theater, New York, N.Y., on June 26, 2009.
- Performer
- Speakers, Ellen Graff, Martha Wiseman (Pearl Lang's step-daughter), Denise Jefferson, Mary Hinkson, Virginie Mécène (director, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance), Ken Billington (lighting designer), Nancy Stevens, Ian Betts.
- Source
- Gift; Nancy Stevens; Oct. 18, 2011. NN-PD
- Added Author
- Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009. HonoreeLang, Pearl, 1921-2009, choreographer.Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009, dancer.Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009. TeacherGraff, Ellen. SpeakerWiseman, Martha, speaker. SpeakerHinkson, Mary. SpeakerJefferson, Denise. SpeakerMécène, Virginie. SpeakerBillington, Ken, 1946- speaker.Stevens, Nancy (Dancer) SpeakerPredmore, Kevin, dancer.Betts, Ian. SpeakerMartha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.Joyce Theater (New York, N.Y.)Stevens, Nancy. DonorGraham, Martha. Diversion of angels.
- Added Title
- Dream voyages (Choreographic work : Lang)Tehillim (Choreographic work : Lang)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-7014