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Dayton Contemporary Dance Company

Title: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company [electronic resource] / founder and artistic director, Jeraldyne Blunden.
Publication: c1996.

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Description

1 streaming video file (NTSC) (85 min.) : sd., col.

Uniform Title

Tango vitrola (Choreographic work : Cervera)
Desenamoradas (Choreographic work : Pomare)
Growth (Choreographic work : Rhoden)
Things I have not forgotten (Choreographic work : Miller)
Come and get the beauty of it hot (Choreographic work : Beatty)

Subject

Argentine tango (Dance)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Accompanied by house program.
Recording made possible by the cooperation of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, the Joyce Theater, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.

Access (note)

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

Performer (note)

Danced by Dayton Contemporary Dance Theater.
Guest dancer: Isaiah Davis.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, on October 20, 1996 (matinee), by Juan Barrera of Sathya Production Services.

Funding (note)

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Contents

Tango vitrola (ca. 26 min.) / choreography, Alejandro Cervera ; music, traditional ; costume execution, Elizabeth Scheyd ; lighting, John Rensel ; danced by Angela Reid, Monnette Bariel, Isiaih Davis, Terence Greene, Jeffrey Crawford, Jerome Stigler, Maria Berman, Gina Gardner, Shana Bloodsaw, and Gerard Alexander.
Las desenamoradas (ca. 20 min.) / choreography, set, costumes, Eleo Pomare ; choreographer's assistant, Kathy Mariea Thomas ; music, John Coltrane ; costume execution, Terri Reed ; lighting, Ken Keith ; danced by DeShona Pepper (the mother) ; daughters: Gina Gardner (fiancée), Greer Reed (loved), Sheri Williams (deformed), Shana Bloodsaw (watchful), Angela Reid (defiant) ; Allen Gartrell (suitor) ; Jeffrey Crawford, Terence Greene, Jerome Stigler (the imagined). Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's drama The house of Bernarda Alba.
Growth (a part of a bigger picture) (ca. 8 min.) / choreography, Dwight Rhoden ; music, Steve Reich ; costume execution, Lowell A. Mathwich ; lighting, Collier Woods ; danced by Sheri Williams.
Things I have not forgotten (ca. 20 min.) / choreography and costumes, Bebe Miller ; music, Fred Frith ; costume execution, Margaret Havens ; lighting, John Rensel ; danced by Sheri Williams with G.D. Harris, Shana Bloodsaw, Angela Reid, and Maria Berman.
Congo tango palace [excerpt from Come and get the beauty of it hot] (ca. 10 min.) / choreography, Talley Beatty ; music, Miles Davis ; costume execution, Lowell A. Mathwich ; lighting, John Rensel ; danced by Maria Berman, Monnette Bariel, Allen Gartell, G.D. Harris, Terence Greene, Shana Bloodsaw, Gina Gardner, Angela Reid, Jerome Stigler, and Jeffrey Crawford.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 2400

OCLC

NYPY97-F12

Title

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company [electronic resource] / founder and artistic director, Jeraldyne Blunden.

Imprint

c1996.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Danced by Dayton Contemporary Dance Theater.

Guest dancer: Isaiah Davis.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, on October 20, 1996 (matinee), by Juan Barrera of Sathya Production Services.

Funding

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

Restricted Access

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

Funding

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-5259.

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Local Subject

Drama and dance.

Added Author

Alexander, Girrard, dancer.

Bariel, Monnette M., dancer.

Berman, Maria, dancer.

Bloodsaw, Shana, dancer.

Crawford, Jeffrey, dancer.

Gardner, Gina, dancer.

Gartrell, Allen D., dancer.

Greene, Terence, dancer.

Harris, G. D., dancer.

Pepper, DeShona, dancer.

Reed, Greer, dancer.

Reid, Angela, dancer.

Stigler, Jerome, dancer.

Williams, Sheri, dancer.

Davis, Isiaih, dancer.

Blunden, Jeraldyne. Director

Cervera, Alejandro Carlos, choreographer.

Rensel, John. Lighting designer

Pomare, Eleo, choreographer. Designer. Costume designer

Coltrane, John, 1926-1967. Composer

Keith, Ken. Lighting designer

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. Author

Rhoden, Dwight, choreographer.

Reich, Steve, 1936- Composer

Woods, Collier. Lighting designer

Miller, Bebe, choreographer. Costume designer

Frith, Fred. Composer

Beatty, Talley, choreographer.

Davis, Miles. Composer

Barrera, Juan. Videographer

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.

Sathya Production Services (Firm)

Joyce Theater (New York, N.Y.)

DHCA.

Added Title

Tango vitrola (Choreographic work : Cervera)

Desenamoradas (Choreographic work : Pomare)

Growth (Choreographic work : Rhoden)

Things I have not forgotten (Choreographic work : Miller)

Come and get the beauty of it hot (Choreographic work : Beatty)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 2400

*MGZIC 9-5259 (former)

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