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Get down!: Benefit for Performance Space 122

Title: Get down!: Benefit for Performance Space 122 [electronic resource]
Publication: 1988.

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Description

3 streaming video files (NTSC) (135 min.) : sd., col.

Uniform Title

Force of circumstance (Choreographic work : Skaggs)
Cross body ride (Choreographic work : McMahon)
Barcarolle and nocturne (Choreographic work : Varone)
State of darkness (Choreographic work : Fenley)

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Note

Videotaped in performance by Video D Studios for Dance Theater Workshop's Dance/Video Access project at Performance Space 122, New York, on February 5, 1988 (8 p.m.). Host: Carmelita Tropicana.
Lighting: David Ferri.

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

Contents

CONTENTS: Reel 1 (approx. 62 min.): [Music, stilt dancing, torch dance/juggling], perf. by Ninth Street Theater and Lam Street Band. -- [Comedy act], perf. by the Alien Comic (Tom Murrin). -- Force of circumstance, chor/perf. by Sarah Skaggs. -- Cross body ride [film]. Director/camera/editor: Jeff McMahon. Score: Charles Nieland. Perf. on film by David Zambrano and Donald Fleming. -- Nocturne in D flat major. Chor/perf: Doug Varone. Mus: Frédéric Chopin. -- [Performance piece], perf. by Holly Hughes. -- Reel 2 (approx. 61 min.): The hell dances: excerpt from a work-in-progress. Chor/perf: Bebe Miller. Mus: Saqqara Dogs. -- Raffle drawing, with Pat Oleszko in goose costume. -- The avant garde breaks into midtown [video of a performance at the Equitable Tower, New York, on October 1, 1987], perf. by David Leslie with kung fu artists from New York Wu Shu Academy. -- Speech by Mark Russell, executive director of Performance Space 122. -- State of darkness, chor/perf. by Molissa Fenley. Mus: Igor Stravinsky (The rite of spring). -- [Musical piece], perf. by Guy Yarden, Chris Cochrane, George Cartwright, and Paul Hoskin. -- Reel 3 (approx. 12 min.): [Don't tell us]: excerpt from a work-in-progress. Chor: Wendy Perron. Mus: Bosho [musical group]. Perf. by Lisa Bush and Kumiko Kimoto.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 2812

OCLC

NYPY936049976-F

Title

Get down!: Benefit for Performance Space 122 [electronic resource]

Imprint

1988.

Restricted Access

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

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-3718.

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Local Subject

Benefit performances.

Arts fund raising.

Television. Get down!

Local Subject

Music -- United States.

Stilt dancing.

Cinedance.

Torch dances.

Jugglers and juggling.

Kung-fu.

Added Author

Russell, Mark, 1954- speaker.

Tropicana, Carmelita. Host

Murrin, Tom. Performer

Skaggs, Sarah, choreographer, dancer.

Zambrano, David. Performer

Fleming, Donald. Performer

Varone, Doug, choreographer, dancer.

Hughes, Holly. Performer

Miller, Bebe, choreographer, dancer.

Leslie, David, performance artist.

Fenley, Molissa, choreographer, dancer.

Yarden, Guy. Musician

Cochrane, Chris. Musician

Cartwright, George. Musician

Hoskin, Paul. Musician

Oleszko, Pat. Performer

Bush, Lisa, choreographer, dancer.

Hwang, Koosil-ja, 1960- dancer.

Nieland, Charles. Composer

McMahon, Jeff, film director.

McMahon, Jeff, director of photography.

McMahon, Jeff, editor of a moving image work.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Composer

Ferri, David. Lighting designer

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Composer

Perron, Wendy, choreographer.

Performance Space 122.

Ninth Street Theater (Company)

Bosho (Musical group)

Video D Studios.

Added Title

Force of circumstance (Choreographic work : Skaggs)

Cross body ride (Choreographic work : McMahon)

Barcarolle and nocturne (Choreographic work : Varone)

State of darkness (Choreographic work : Fenley)

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-3718 (former)

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