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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Title: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 2014 December 18 / artistic director, Robert Battle.
Publication: 2015.

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Description

1 streaming video file (87 min.) : sound, color.

Uniform Title

Uprising (Choreographic work : Shechter)
Suspended women (Choreographic work : Buglisi)
Odetta (Choreographic work : Rushing)

Alternative Title

Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.

Note

Widescreen.
Title from opening video credits.
The recording of this work was made possible by the cooperation of ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER, NEW YORK CITY CENTER, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

Founder, Alvin Ailey ; Artistic Director Emerita, Judith Jamison ; video producer, François Bernadi ; camera operators, Jonathan Weaver, Paul Reuter ; editor, François Bernadi.

Funding (note)

This archival recording is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works.
The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Contents

Uprising (2006, Ailey premere 2014) (27 min.) / choreography by Hofesh Shechter ; music by Hofesh Shechter and Vex'd ; restaging by Bruno Guillore ; lighting by Lee Curran ; danced by Jeroboam Bozeman, Antonio Douthit-Boyd, Kirvin [Kirven] Douthit-Boyd, Yannick Lebrun, Jamar Roberts, Jermaine Terry, Marcus Jarrell Willis.
Suspended Women (2000, Ailey premiere 2014) (18 min.) / choreography by Jacqulyn Buglisi ; music by Maurice Ravel ; music interpolations composed and performed by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) ; costumes by A. Christina Giannini ; lighting by Clifton Taylor ; rehearsal director, Helen Hansen French ; danced by Linda Celeste Sims, Rachael McLaren, Megan Jakel, Belen Pereyra, Hope Boykin, Sarah Daley, Jacquelin Harris, Akua Noni Parker, Demetia Hopkins Greene, Ghrai Devore, Danica Paulos, Glenn Allen Sims, Jamar Roberts, Antonio Douthit-Boyd, Samuel Lee Roberts.
Odetta (2014) (42 min.) / choreography by Matthew Rushing ; assistants to the choreographer, Renee Robinson, Michael Jackson, Jr. ; music by various artists ; music performed by Odetta ; sound design by Russell J. Cowans IV ; costumes by Dante Baylor ; lighting by Andre Vasquez ; scenic design by Travis George ; original artwork by Stephen Alcorn ; dancers, Hope Boykin & the company (This little light of mine) ; Belen Pereyra & the company (Ox driver song) ; Renaldo Maurice (John Henry) ; Rachael McLaren, Marcus Jarrell Willis (A hole in the bucket) ; Hope Boykin & the company (Motherless children) ; Kanji Segawa (Sometimes I feel like a motherless child) ; Sarah Daley, Jermaine Terry (Cool water) ; Michael Francis McBride, Danica Paulos and the company (Masters of war) ; Megan Jakel (Glory, Glory) ; Hope Boykin, Sarah Daley, Megan Jakel, Renaldo Maurice, Michael Francis McBride, Rachael McLaren, Danica Paulos, Belen Pereyra, Kanji Segawa, Jermaine Terry, Marcus Jarrell Willis (Freedom trilogy).

Call Number

*MGZIDF 4104

OCLC

963977655

Title

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 2014 December 18 / artistic director, Robert Battle.

Production

2015.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file streaming H.264

Access

Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits

Founder, Alvin Ailey ; Artistic Director Emerita, Judith Jamison ; video producer, François Bernadi ; camera operators, Jonathan Weaver, Paul Reuter ; editor, François Bernadi.

Performer

Dancers, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (company members): Hope Boykin, Jeroboam Bozeman, Sean Aaron Carmon, Elisa Clark, Sarah Daley, Ghrai DeVore, Antonio Douthit-Boyd, Kirvin [Kirven] Douthit-Boyd, Samantha Figgins, Vernard J. Gilmore, Jacqueline Green, Daniel Harder, Jacquelin Harris, Collin Heyward, Demetia Hopkins Greene, Megan Jakel, Yannick Lebrun, Alicia Graf Mack, Renaldo Maurice, Michael Francis McBride, Rachael McLaren, Akua Noni Parker, Danica Paulos, Belen Pereyra, Jamar Roberts, Samuel Lee Roberts, Kanji Segawa, Glenn Allen Sims, Linda Celeste Sims, Jermaine Terry, Fana Tesfagiorgis, Marcus Jarrell Willis ; rehearsal director and guest artist, Matthew Rushing.

Event

Videotaped in performance at New York City Center, New York, N.Y., 2014 December 18.

Funding

This archival recording is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works.

The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Jerome Robbins Foundation.

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Added Author

Battle, Robert, artistic director.

Shechter, Hofesh, choreographer.

Shechter, Hofesh, composer.

Guillore, Bruno, choreographer.

Curran, Lee, lighting designer.

Buglisi, Jacqulyn, choreographer.

Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937, composer.

Roumain, Daniel Bernard, composer.

Giannini, Christina, costume designer.

Taylor, Clifton, lighting designer.

French, Helen Hansen, teacher.

Rushing, Matthew, 1973- choreographer.

Odetta, 1930-2008, singer.

Cowans, Russell J., sound designer.

Baylor, Dante, costume designer.

Vasquez, Andre, lighting designer.

George, Travis, set designer.

Alcorn, Stephen, designer.

Bozeman, Jeroboam, dancer.

Douthit, Antonio, dancer.

Boyd, Kirven J., dancer.

Lebrun, Yannick, dancer.

Roberts, Jamar, dancer.

Terry, Jermaine, dancer.

Willis, Marcus Jarrell, dancer.

Sims, Linda Celeste, dancer.

McLaren, Rachael, dancer.

Jakel, Megan, dancer.

Pereyra, Belen, dancer.

Boykin, Hope, dancer.

Daley, Sarah, dancer.

Green, Jacqueline (Dancer), dancer.

Clark, Elisa, dancer.

Harris, Jacquelin, dancer.

Parker, Akua Noni, dancer.

Hopkins, Demetia, dancer.

DeVore, Ghrai, dancer.

Paulos, Danica, dancer.

Sims, Glenn A. (Glenn Allen), dancer.

Roberts, Samuel L., dancer.

Gardner, Renaldo, dancer.

Segawa, Kanji, dancer.

McBride, Michael Francis, dancer.

Bernadi, François, editor of moving image work.

Bernadi, François, producer.

Weaver, Jonathan, videographer.

Reuter, Paul, videographer.

Vexed (Musical group), composer.

New York City Center, presenter.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, dancer.

New York Public Library. Dance Division, presenter.

Added Title

Container of (work): Uprising (Choreographic work : Shechter)

Container of (work): Suspended women (Choreographic work : Buglisi)

Container of (work): Odetta (Choreographic work : Rushing)

Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 4104

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