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Dance on: Alwin Nikolais

Title
Dance on: Alwin Nikolais [videorecording] / producer, Billie Mahoney ; director, Jon Hutcheson.
Publication
1982.

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Additional Authors
  • Nikolais, Alwin.
  • Mahoney, Billie.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (28 min.) : sd., b&w; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Billie Mahoney interviews Alwin Nikolais, who was her first dance teacher at Colorado College. They discuss his beginnings as a professional musician and accompanist for dance, his interest in percussion music which subsequently led him to study dance, the influence of Mary Wigman and Hanya Holm, study at Bennington College, his notation system, teaching at Connecticut [actually Colorado] College, his European tours, his association with Murray Louis, teaching at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France, and his ballet Schema, produced by the Paris Opéra.
Series Statement
Dance on: With Billie Mahoney.
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Interviews.
  • Video.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewer: Billie Mahoney.
  • Interviewee: Alwin Nikolais.
Event (note)
  • Telecast on February 21, 1982 by Manhattan Cable and Teleprompter Cable Television.
System Details (note)
  • DVD, transferred from Digital Betacam cassette.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-5652
OCLC
  • 54541945
  • NYPY827034276-F
Title
Dance on: Alwin Nikolais [videorecording] / producer, Billie Mahoney ; director, Jon Hutcheson.
Imprint
1982.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Dance on: With Billie Mahoney.
System Details
DVD, transferred from Digital Betacam cassette.
Performer
Interviewer: Billie Mahoney.
Interviewee: Alwin Nikolais.
Event
Telecast on February 21, 1982 by Manhattan Cable and Teleprompter Cable Television.
Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-305.
Local Subject
Television. Dance on: with Billie Mahoney.
Added Author
Nikolais, Alwin. Interviewee
Mahoney, Billie. Producer. Interviewer
DHCA.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-5652
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