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Martha Graham

Title: Martha Graham [videorecording] / co-produced by Caméras Continentales and La Sept Theatre and Music Department, Guillaume Gronier ; BBC presentation, Bob Lockyer ; director, Peter Mumford ; producer, Fiona Morris.
Publication: United Kingdom : British Broadcasting Corporation, c1991.

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Description

1 videocassette (102 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Documentary on the life and work of Martha Graham, who is seen in recorded interviews and archival footage of her solos Lamentation and Frontier. Additional commentaries are provided by her former dancers Bonnie Bird (also seen in archival footage, demonstrating Graham technique), Jane Dudley, and Robert Cohan. Five dances, representing different periods in Graham's life, are shown in performances recorded at the Opéra de Paris-Garnier in November 1991.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Bob Lockyer, BBC.

Uniform Title

Steps in the street (Choreographic work : Graham)

Subject

Graham, Martha

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Biographies.
Documentaries and factual films and programs.

Credits (note)

Executive producers, Takis Candilis, Helen Asquith, and Ron Protas ; choreography, Martha Graham.

Performer (note)

Host: Judith Mackrell.
Performed by the Martha Graham Dance Company: Takako Asakawa, Camille Brown, Kathy Buccellato, Terese Capucilli, Christine Dakin, Joyce Herring, Laura Jimenez, Debra Kantor, Theresa Maldonado, Miki Orihara, Maxine Sherman, Daniela Stasi, Kim Stroud, Denise Vale, Myra Woodruff, Lyndon Branaugh, Mario Camacho, Duane Cyrus, Floyd Flynn, Donlin Foreman, Peter London, Pascal Rioult, Tancredo Tavares, Kenneth Topping, and Young-ha Yoo.

Event (note)

Telecast on the BBC series Dancemakers ; date of telecast not identified.

Contents

Dance contents: Lamentation [excerpts] / music, Zoltán Kodály ; performed by Graham.
Steps in the street / music, Wallingford Riegger ; costumes, Graham ; lighting, David Finley ; performed by Vale with Brown, Buccellato, Herring, Jimenez, Kantor, Maldonado, Orihara, Sherman, Stasi, Stroud, and Woodruff.
Frontier [excerpt] (b&w) / music, Louis Horst ; scenery, Isamu Noguchi ; performed by Graham.
El penitente / music, Horst ; scenery, Noguchi ; costumes, Graham ; lighting, Jean Rosenthal ; performed by Topping (penitent), Rioult (Christ figure), and Herring (Mary).
Demonstration of early Graham technique (b&w) / performed by Bird.
Diversion of angels / music, Norman Dello Joio ; costumes, Graham ; lighting, Rosenthal ; performed by Maldonado and Camacho (couple in yellow), Buccellato and Cyrus (couple in red), Sherman and Foreman (couple in white), with Yoo, Jimenez, Orihara, Woodruff, and Stasi.
Herodiade / music, Paul Hindemith ; scenery, Noguchi ; costumes, Graham ; lighting, Rosenthal ; performed by Asakawa (a woman) and Dakin (her attendant).
Maple leaf rag / music, Scott Joplin, arranged by Christopher Landriau ; costumes, Calvin Klein ; lighting, Finley ; performed by Capucilli, Brown, Buccellato, Herring, Jimenez, Maldonado, Orihara, Sherman, Stasi, Stroud, Vale, Woodruff, Flynn, Branaugh, Camacho, Cyrus, London, Rioult, Tavares, Topping, and Yoo.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1945

OCLC

NYPY94-F99

Title

Martha Graham [videorecording] / co-produced by Caméras Continentales and La Sept Theatre and Music Department, Guillaume Gronier ; BBC presentation, Bob Lockyer ; director, Peter Mumford ; producer, Fiona Morris.

Imprint

United Kingdom : British Broadcasting Corporation, c1991.

Country of Producing Entity

U.K.?

Performer

Host: Judith Mackrell.

Performed by the Martha Graham Dance Company: Takako Asakawa, Camille Brown, Kathy Buccellato, Terese Capucilli, Christine Dakin, Joyce Herring, Laura Jimenez, Debra Kantor, Theresa Maldonado, Miki Orihara, Maxine Sherman, Daniela Stasi, Kim Stroud, Denise Vale, Myra Woodruff, Lyndon Branaugh, Mario Camacho, Duane Cyrus, Floyd Flynn, Donlin Foreman, Peter London, Pascal Rioult, Tancredo Tavares, Kenneth Topping, and Young-ha Yoo.

Credits

Executive producers, Takis Candilis, Helen Asquith, and Ron Protas ; choreography, Martha Graham.

Event

Telecast on the BBC series Dancemakers ; date of telecast not identified.

Local Subject

Television. Dancemakers.

Modern dance -- Technique -- Graham.

Added Author

Graham, Martha, choreographer.

Graham, Martha, dancer.

Graham, Martha. Costume designer

Graham, Martha. Interviewee

Bird, Bonnie, dancer. Commentator

Dudley, Jane. Commentator

Cohan, Robert. Commentator

Mackrell, Judith. Host

Vale, Denise, dancer.

Topping, Kenneth, dancer.

Rioult, Pascal, dancer.

Herring, Joyce, dancer.

Maldonado, Theresa, dancer.

Camacho, Mario, dancer.

Buccellato, Kathy, dancer.

Cyrus, Duane, dancer.

Sherman, Maxine, dancer.

Foreman, Donlin, dancer.

Capucilli, Terese, dancer.

Stroud, Kim, dancer.

Kodály, Zoltán, 1882-1967. Composer

Riegger, Wallingford, 1885-1961. Composer

Finley, David. Designer

Horst, Louis. Composer

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988. Designer

Rosenthal, Jean, 1912- Designer

Dello Joio, Norman, 1913-2008. Composer

Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963. Composer

Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917. Composer

Klein, Calvin, 1942- Costume designer

Landriau, Christopher. Arranger

Protas, Ron. Producer

Morris, Fiona. Producer

Mumford, Peter, 1946- Director

Lockyer, Bob. Producer

Martha Graham Dance Company.

Caméras Continentales (Firm)

SEPT (Television station : France)

British Broadcasting Corporation.

DHCA.

Graham, Martha. Diversion of angels

Graham, Martha. Frontier

Graham, Martha. Lamentation

Graham, Martha. Penitente

Graham, Martha. Maple leaf rag

Graham, Martha. Hérodiade

Added Title

Steps in the street (Choreographic work : Graham)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1945

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