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Letter to the world (Motion picture)

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Description

1 reel. 57 min. 2053 ft. : sd. b&w.; 16 mm.

Note

Filmed in rehearsal on December 5, 1973 for the Jerome Robbins Film Archive by Compton-Ardolino Films, inc. with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Choreography: Martha Graham. Music: Hunter Johnson. Pianists: Stanley Sussman and Lewis Stewart. Sets: Arch Lauterer. Costumes after designs by Edythe Gilfond. Title and lines of the Speaker from the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
Performed by members of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Cast: Pearl Lang (One who dances), Jean Erdman (One who speaks), William Carter (Lover), Armgard von Bardeleben (Ancestress), David Hatch Walker (March), Phyllis Gutelius (Fairy queen), Takako Asakawa (Young girl), Judith Hogan and Yuriko Kimura (Two children), and Lucinda Mitchell, Peter Sparling, Mario Delano, Holly Cavrell, Bonnie Oda, Eric Newton, and Tim Wengerd.

Call Number

*MGZHB 20-1252

OCLC

NYPY757034435-F

Title

Letter to the world (Motion picture)

Imprint

1973.

Local Subject

Motion pictures. Letter to the world.

Added Author

Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009, dancer.

Erdman, Jean, dancer.

Carter, William, 1936-1988, dancer.

Von Bardeleben, Armgard, dancer.

Walker, David Hatch, dancer.

Gutelius, Phyllis, dancer.

Asakawa, Takako, dancer.

Hogan, Judith, dancer.

Kimura, Yuriko, dancer.

Graham, Martha, choreographer.

Johnson, Hunter, 1906-1998, composer.

Compton, Gardner.

Lauterer, Arch, 1904-1957. Designer

Gilfond, Edythe. Costume designer

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Author

Martha Graham Dance Company.

Graham, Martha. Letter to the world.

Research Call Number

*MGZHB 20-1252