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Conversations about the dance

Title: Conversations about the dance [videorecording].
Publication: 1977.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 2	Moving image	Use in library	*MGZIDVD 5-1821 disc 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
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Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (63 min.) : sd., b&w; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Rehearsal for the first half of Agnes de Mille's lecture-demonstration Conversations about the dance, an overview of dance in the United States. De Mille's voice can be heard from off-camera, speaking the narration and directing the dancers, but her words are not always intelligible. Some of the dances include repetitions and false starts.

Donor/Sponsor

Agnes de Mille Collection.

Uniform Title

Conversations about the dance (Choreographic work)
Rodeo (Choreographic work : De Mille)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Original tapes accompanied by typewritten note giving date and list of contents.

Event (note)

Videotaped in studio rehearsal at City Center, New York, in rehearsal clothes with piano accompaniment, in Nov. 1977.

Funding (note)

This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System Details (note)

DVD.

Contents

Disc 1 (33 min.): Exercises for dynamics -- Exercises for dramatic mime -- Rodeo [excerpt] / choreography, Agnes de Mille ; music, Aaron Copland ; danced by Russell Sultzbach and men's ensemble -- Jacobean dances: Step Stately [English country dance], Galliarde, Volta -- Square dance -- Minuet / music, Exaudet.
Disc 2 (30 min.): Rigaudon / music, Rameau ; danced by Francesca Corkle -- African dance / man's solo danced by Mel Tomlinson ; woman's solo danced by Cynthia Penn ; also includes slaves' quintet and cakewalk -- Irish jig / danced by James Jamieson (seated) -- Ragtime / danced by Mel Tomlinson and two men, probably Jeffery Ferguson and Wesley Robinson -- [Tap dance solo] / danced by Honi Coles.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1821

OCLC

NYPY97-F6

Title

Conversations about the dance [videorecording].

Imprint

1977.

Performer

Danced by members of the Joffrey Ballet.

Guest artists: Honi Coles, Mel Tomlinson.

Narrator [off-camera]: Agnes de Mille.

Event

Videotaped in studio rehearsal at City Center, New York, in rehearsal clothes with piano accompaniment, in Nov. 1977.

Funding

This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System Details

DVD.

Local Note

Former classmark: *MGZIC 5-1821.

Local Subject

Square, round and contra dancing.

Galliard (Dance)

Volta (Dance)

Rigaudon (Dance)

Added Author

De Mille, Agnes, choreographer.

De Mille, Agnes, narrator.

Coles, Honi, 1911-1992, dancer.

Corkle, Francesca, dancer.

Sultzbach, Russell, dancer.

Penn, Cynthia, dancer.

Tomlinson, Mel, dancer.

Jamieson, James, dancer.

Ferguson, Jeffery, dancer.

Robinson, Wesley, -1993, dancer.

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Composer

Exaudet, André Joseph, approximately 1710-1762. Composer

Rameau, Jean Philippe, 1683-1764. Composer

Joffrey Ballet.

DHCA.

Added Title

Conversations about the dance (Choreographic work)

Rodeo (Choreographic work : De Mille)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1821

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