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Nijinsky by Béjart

Title: Nijinsky by Béjart [videorecording] / WCBS-TV ; produced by Artium Summa, Belgium, for Camera Three ; produced and directed by Merrill Brockway ; choreography by Maurice Béjart.
Publication: New York, N.Y. : WCBS-TV, 1971.

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Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (58 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Performance excerpts, some sections with voice-overs by Maurice Béjart, and a conversation between Béjart and Faubion Bowers.

Uniform Title

Nijinsky, clown of God (Choreographic work : Béjart)

Subject

Nijinsky, Vaslav, 1890-1950 > Drama

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Credits (note)

Music, Pierre Henry and Peter Tchaikovsky (excerpts from Symphony no. 6, "Pathètique").

Event (note)

Telecast in two parts by WCBS-TV on the series Camera three, on November 21 and 28, 1971.

System Details (note)

DVD, transferred from Digital Betacam cassette.

Contents

Part one: Excerpts from Nijinsky, clown of God, filmed in the sports stadium of the Forest-National Theatre, Brussels, three days before premiere -- Conversation between Maurice Béjart and Faubion Bowers -- Part two: Conversation continued -- Continuation of performance excerpts.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5613

OCLC

NYPY797054752-F

Title

Nijinsky by Béjart [videorecording] / WCBS-TV ; produced by Artium Summa, Belgium, for Camera Three ; produced and directed by Merrill Brockway ; choreography by Maurice Béjart.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : WCBS-TV, 1971.

System Details

DVD, transferred from Digital Betacam cassette.

Event

Telecast in two parts by WCBS-TV on the series Camera three, on November 21 and 28, 1971.

Credits

Music, Pierre Henry and Peter Tchaikovsky (excerpts from Symphony no. 6, "Pathètique").

Performer

Performed by the Ballet du XXe Siècle: Jorge Donn (Nijinsky, clown of god), Pierre Dobrievich (Diaghilev), Menia Martínez (Ballerina), Paolo Bortoluzzi (Spectre de la rose), Daniel Lommel (Golden slave), Jörg Lanner (Faun), Micha Van Hoecke (Petrouchka), Suzanne Farrell (Girl in pink), Dyane Gray-Cullert (Madness), Victor Ullate (Auguste), Jaleh Kerendi (Society lady?), Angèle Albrecht (Nymph?/Serpent), Hitomi Asakawa (Doll?), Robert Denvers (Clown in blue?), Paul Mejia (Clown in pink?), Guy Brasseur, Lise Pinet, and others.

Speaker: Laurent Terzieff.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-92.

Local Subject

Television. Camera three.

Ballet in television. Nijinsky, clown of God.

Ballet in television. Nijinsky by Béjart.

Added Author

Béjart, Maurice, choreographer, interviewee.

Bowers, Faubion, 1917-1999, interviewer.

Albrecht, Angèle, dancer.

Asakawa, Hitomi, dancer.

Brasseur, Guy, dancer.

Bortoluzzi, Paolo, 1938- dancer.

Denvers, Robert, dancer.

Dobrievich, Pierre, dancer.

Donn, Jorge, dancer.

Farrell, Suzanne, 1945- dancer.

Gray-Cullert, Dyane, dancer.

Hoecke, Micha van, dancer.

Kerendi, Jaleh, dancer.

Lanner, Jörg, dancer.

Lommel, Daniel, dancer.

Martínez, Menia, dancer.

Mejia, Paul, dancer.

Pinet, Lise, dancer.

Ullate, Victor, dancer.

Henry, Pierre, 1927- Composer

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Composer

Brockway, Merrill. Producer

Brockway, Merrill. Director

Ballet du XXe siècle (Belgium)

CBS Television Network.

Added Title

Nijinsky, clown of God (Choreographic work : Béjart)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5613

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