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Confronting the model a retreat for mid-career artists

Title: Confronting the model [videorecording] : a retreat for mid-career artists / sponsored by Dance Theater Workshop.
Publication: c1995.

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Description

6 videocassettes (U-matic, NTSC) (325 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Summary

Documentation of a meeting of choreographers, company managers, and other arts administrators, who discuss artistic, economic, and practical concerns of choreographers today. Artists were selected for "mid-career" status; i.e., ten to twenty years of work in the field. In addition to the general sessions, the participants met in smaller "breakout sessions," which were not taped.

Subject

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Accompanied by agenda, list of discussion topics, and list of participants.
Recording made possible by the cooperation of the participants, Dance Theater Workshop, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.

Event (note)

Videotaped at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, on June 17 and 18, 1995, by Penny Ward.

Funding (note)

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Contents

Cassette 1 (ca. 61 min.). Opening general session, June 17, 1995 (9:00AM). Introductory speeches by organizers Jacqueline Wein, Tia Tibbitts Levinson, Pam Quinn, Bebe Miller, and David R. White. Participants introduce themselves.
Cassette 2 (ca. 62 min.). Continuation of introductions -- Afternoon general session, June 17, 1995 (5:15PM). Reports on the first three breakout sessions: I, Why we work and why we do the things we do; II, Once work exists, what do you do with it?; III, Company model, project-based work model, and alternatives. Topics include motivations and vision for choreography; advantages and disadvantages of the predominant single-choreographer company model, compared with other models; implications of considering a work as ephemeral or permanent; balancing family responsibilities and artistic exigencies; contrasting the traditional non-institutional nature of the dance field with unionization and its benefits and drawbacks; the need for more communication between artists and other communities; the artist's share in educating the public to take interest in dance.
Cassette 3 (ca. 59 min.). Continuation of afternoon general session, June 17, 1995 (5:15PM).
Cassette 4 (ca. 46 min.). Midday general session, June 18, 1995 (1:15PM). Reports on the fourth and fifth breakout sessions: IV, Life and work; V, Addressing a community. Topics include choreographers' need for recognition as serious professionals; maintaining or denying the bohemian image of the artist; the problems that arise when mid-career coincides with mid-life; broadening the circles reached by dance; making works relevant to the audience.
Cassette 5 (ca. 53 min.). Closing general session, June 18, 1995 (4:45PM). Reports and general discussion on the sixth breakout session: VI, Create a model. Participants suggest ways to improve the current situations of choreographers, including different modes of employing choreographers and dancers, ideas for marketing and public education, use of new technology such as the Internet; establishment of centers to serve as meeting places and clearinghouses for information; ideas for exchanges between artists and the community.
Cassette 6 (ca. 44 min.). Continuation of closing general session. Cynthia Mayeda and Bonnie Brooks discuss the current status of the National Endowment for the Arts; participants discuss future projects, including more activism among artists.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-4934

OCLC

NYPY96-F458

Title

Confronting the model [videorecording] : a retreat for mid-career artists / sponsored by Dance Theater Workshop.

Imprint

c1995.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Videotaped at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, on June 17 and 18, 1995, by Penny Ward.

Performer

Participants: Janis Brenner, Art Bridgman, Neal Brilliant, Bonnie Brooks, Donald Byrd, Suzanne Callahan, Ann Carlson, Catlin Cobb, Terry Creach, David Dorfman, Nancy Duncan, Douglas Dunn, Susan Fait-Meyers, Meg Fry, Ryan Gilliam, Laura Greer, Kelly James, Risa Jaroslow, Debra Sue Keller, Christina King, Stephan Koplowitz, Phyllis Lamhut, Tia Tibbitts Levinson, Amy Lieberman, Deborah Lim, Fiona Marcotty, Victoria Marks, Susan Marshall, Cynthia Mayeda, Bebe Miller, Tere O'Connor, Myrna Packer, Peggy Peloquin, Sandra Perez, Wendy Perron, Carla Peterson, Tricia Pierson, Claire Porter, Elizabeth Powers, Peter Pucci, Pam Quinn, Tamar Rogoff, Bryony Romer, Diane Rosenblatt, Mark Russell, Danial Shapiro, Linda Shelton, Ellen Sinopli, Sarah Skaggs, Toni Smith, Joanie Smith, Merián Soto, Janet Stapleton, Ivan Sygoda, Eddie Taketa, Muna Tseng, Laurie Uprichard, Nellesa Walthour, Martin Wechsler, Jacqueline Wein, Micki Wesson, David White, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.

Facilitators: Bonnie Brooks, Amy Lieberman, Ivan Sygoda, Laurie Uprichard.

Funding

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Added Author

Wein, Jacqueline. Speaker

Quinn, Pam. Speaker

Miller, Bebe. Speaker

White, David R. Speaker

Brooks, Bonnie. Speaker

Lieberman, Amy. Speaker

Sygoda, Ivan. Speaker

Uprichard, Laurie. Speaker

Mayeda, Cynthia. Speaker

Ward, Penny, videographer.

National Endowment for the Arts.

Dance Theater Workshop.

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-4934

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