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City Dance

Title: City Dance [videorecording]
Publication: 1981.

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Description

1 videocassette. 69 min. : sd. color NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Performances by seven dance companies from Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Maryland Public Television.

Uniform Title

Casual moments (Choreographic work : Choo San Goh)

Subjects

Note

Videotaped in performance at the fifth City Dance Festival, presented by Washington Performing Arts Society at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, D.C., in 1981. Telecast by WETA/Washington, D.C. Producer: Jackson Frost. Director: Jay Zabriskie. Host: J. C. Hayward.
Festival staff: Artistic director: Carol Wonsavage. Production designer/lighting: Neil Fleitell.

Contents

CONTENTS: If my friends could see me now. Chor: Carol Watkins Foster. Mus: C. Coleman, D. Fields. Costumes: Janet Ricks. Perf. by D. C. Youth Ensemble (artistic director: Carol Watkins Foster). -- Stravinsky quartet. Chor: Daniel West. Mus: Igor Stravinsky (Concertino for string quartet). Perf. by Hoffman Dance Consort (artistic director: Addison Hoffman). -- Casual moments. Chor: Choo San Goh. Mus: Witold Lutoslawski (Dance preludes). Cos: Carol Vollet Garner. Perf. by Kacy O'Brien and Malcolm Grant of the Washington Ballet (artistic director: Mary Day). -- Joint venture. Chor: Hannah Kahn. Mus: Johannes Brahms (Piano quartet no. 2 in A, Op. 26). Cos: Greta Marsh Owens. Perf. by Maryland Dance Theater (artistic director: Larry Warren). -- Zapateado de la garrocha. Chor/cos: Raquel Peña. Musical direction: Fernando Sirvent. Perf. by Raquel Peña Spanish Dance Company. -- The divided self. Chor: Pola Nirenska. Mus: Roger Goeb (Symphony no. 4). Perf. by Cheryl Koehler and Jan Tievsky of Glen Echo Dance Theater (artistic director: Jan Tievsky). -- Chiwara. Chor: Melvin Deal. Mus: Abdou Kounta and the ensemble. Cos: Wilhelmina Joseph Moore. Perf. by the African Heritage Dancers and Drummers (founder/director: Melvin Deal). This dance is interrupted at approx. 58 min. into the tape, then repeats from the beginning.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-475

OCLC

NYPY936018159-F

Title

City Dance [videorecording]

Imprint

1981.

Local Subject

Television. City Dance.

Harvest dances.

Added Author

O'Brien, Kacy, dancer.

Grant, Malcolm, dancer.

Peña, Raquel, choreographer. cst, dancer.

Tievsky, Jan, dancer.

Koehler, Cheryl, dancer.

Lutosławski, Witold, 1913-1994. Composer

Kahn, Hannah, choreographer.

Nirenska, Pola, choreographer.

West, Daniel, choreographer.

Deal, Melvin, choreographer.

Foster, Carol Watkins, choreographer.

Zabriskie, Jay. Director

Wonsavage, Carol. Director

Fleitell, Neil. Designer

Goh, Choo San, choreographer.

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Composer

Ricks, Janet. Costume designer

Garner, Carol Vollet. Costume designer

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Composer

Goeb, Roger, 1914-1997. Composer

Owens, Greta Marsh. Costume designer

Kounta, Abdou. Composer

Moore, Wilhelmina Joseph. Costume designer

D. C. Youth Ensemble.

Hoffman Dance Consort.

Washington Ballet (Washington, D.C.)

Raquel Peña Spanish Dance Company.

Glen Echo Dance Theater.

African Heritage Dancers and Drummers.

Washington Performing Arts Society.

Maryland Dance Theater (Company)

City dance festival (Washington, D.C.)

Added Title

Casual moments (Choreographic work : Choo San Goh)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-475

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