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Charles Weidman - a celebration

Title: Charles Weidman - a celebration [electronic resource]
Publication: 1975.

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2 streaming video files (NTSC) (105 min.) : sd., b&w.

Uniform Title

Visualization, or From a farm in New Jersey (Choreographic work : Weidman)
Spanish dance (Choreographic work : Nagrin)
Strange hero (Choreographic work : Nagrin)
Lynchtown (Choreographic work : Weidman)
Atavisms (Choreographic work : Weidman)
Fables for our time (Choreographic work : Weidman)
Glyph (Choreographic work : Litz)
Brahms waltzes, opus 39 (Choreographic work : Weidman)

Subject

Weidman, Charles

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Note

Videotaped by Johannes Holub during a performance at the Majestic Theatre, New York, on October 6, 1975. Program produced by Linda Mann Reed and directed by Donald Saddler. Introduction and commentaries by Walter Terry.

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

Contents

CONTENTS. - Reel 1. Introduction by Walter Terry. Warm up, a choreographed technique class by Peter Hamilton, performed by members of Charles Weidman Theatre Dance Company. Marian Seldes recites piece by Charles Weidman titled "My vocation", written when he was in the ninth grade in Lincoln, Nebraska. Speech by Martha Hill about Weidman and the early Bennington years. Excerpt from Visualization, or From a farm in New Jersey (chor: Weidman; mus: Saint-Saëns) performed by Janet Towner. Brief remarks by Alfred Drake about Weidman and his kinetic pantomime. Two works choreographed and performed by Daniel Nagrin: Spanish dance (mus: Geneviève Pitot) and Strange hero (mus: Stan Kenton and Pete Rugolo). Shakers (chor: Doris Humphrey) performed by members of José Limón Dance Company. - Reel 2. Letter from Martha Graham about Weidman, read by Walter Terry. Brief remarks by Linda Mann Reed. Lynchtown (from Atavisms; chor: Weidman, directed by Beatrice Seckler; mus: Lehman Engel) performed by members of Charles Weidman Theatre Dance Company. The moth and the star (from Fables for our time; chor: Weidman; mus: Freda Miller) performed by Jim Auwae and Rick Ornellas of the Mary Anthony Dance Theatre. Fix me, Jesus (from Revelations; chor: Alvin Ailey) performed by Daniela Malusardi and Josiah Young of the Alvin Ailey Repertory Workshop. The glyph (mus: Lou Harrison) choreographed and performed by Katherine Litz. Brahms
waltzes, opus 39 (chor: Weidman) performed by members of Charles Weidman Theatre Dance Company.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 3056

OCLC

NYPY877001417-F

Title

Charles Weidman - a celebration [electronic resource]

Imprint

1975.

Restricted Access

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

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 5-549.

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Local Subject

Television. Visualization, or From a farm in New Jersey.

Television Spanish dance.

Television. Strange hero.

Television. The Shakers.

Television. Lynchtown.

Television. Atavisms.

Television. Fables for our time.

Television. Revelations.

Television. The glyph.

Television. Brahms waltzes, opus 39.

Television. Charles Weidman - a celebration.

Added Author

Terry, Walter. Commentator

Seldes, Marian, speaker.

Hill, Martha. Speaker

Towner, Janet, dancer.

Drake, Alfred, 1914-1992. Speaker

Nagrin, Daniel, choreographer, dancer.

Reed, Linda Mann. Producer. Speaker

Auwae, Jim, dancer.

Ornellas, Rick, dancer.

Malusardi, Daniela, dancer.

Young, Josiah, dancer.

Litz, Katherine, -1978, choreographer, dancer.

Holub, Johannes. Videographer

Saddler, Donald, director.

Hamilton, Peter, choreographer.

Weidman, Charles, choreographer.

Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921. Composer

Pitot, Genevieve, 1901-1980. Composer

Kenton, Stan. Composer

Rugolo, Pete, 1915- Composer

Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958, choreographer.

Seckler, Beatrice. Director

Engel, Lehman, 1910-1982. Composer

Miller, Freda D. Composer

Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003. Composer

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Composer

Ailey, Alvin, choreographer.

Charles Weidman Dance Theatre.

José Limón Dance Company.

Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958. Shakers.

Ailey, Alvin. Revelations

Added Title

Visualization, or From a farm in New Jersey (Choreographic work : Weidman)

Spanish dance (Choreographic work : Nagrin)

Strange hero (Choreographic work : Nagrin)

Lynchtown (Choreographic work : Weidman)

Atavisms (Choreographic work : Weidman)

Fables for our time (Choreographic work : Weidman)

Glyph (Choreographic work : Litz)

Brahms waltzes, opus 39 (Choreographic work : Weidman)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 3056

*MGZIC 5-549 (former)

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