Research Catalog

Title

Sachiyo Ito & Company [electronic resource] : classical and contemporary Japanese dance.

Publication

c1998.

Details

Additional Authors

• Ito, Sachiyo
• Richards, Terry
• Hurkin-Torres, Jean
• Ishimura, Misako
• Kineya, Shōjirō, 1803-
• Steiner, Charles.
• Vagabond Video.
• New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
• DHCA.

Description

1 streaming video file (NTSC) (49 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

Program of classical and contemporary Japanese dances, each introduced orally. The final piece on the program, Sakura, was not recorded.

Uniform Title

• Ayame (Choreographic work : Ito)
• Kagero (Choreographic work : Ito)
• Mai ohgi (Choreographic work : Ito)

Subject

• Dance > Japan
• Court dancing > Okinawa

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Accompanied by house program.
• Recording made possible by the cooperation of Sachiyo Ito & Company, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 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.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York, on May 2, 1998. The dance Mai ohgi was videotaped on May 3, 1998. Video produced by Vagabond Video ; camera and editing, Charles Steiner.

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

• Ayame (Iris flowers) / choreography and performance, Sachiyo Ito ; music, Yamato Gaku music.
• Hanagasa no dan (Flower hats dance) / excerpt from Kyoganoko musume dojoji (The woman and Dojoji Temple) ; original choreography (first produced in 1753), Tomijuro Nakamura I ; music, traditional nagauta music ; danced by Terry Richards and Jean Hurkin-Torres.
• Kagero (Mirage) / choreography and performance, Sachiyo Ito ; music, Aki Fukakusa (Shinkin [Ancient Chinese koto]).
• Mai ohgi (Dancing fan) / Kabuki-style dance ; choreography, Sachiyo Ito ; music, Shojiro Kineya ; lyrics, Gohei Namiki ; danced by Misako Ishimura.
• Takadera manzai / Okinawan court dance from the opera Manzai tekiuchi (The revenge of the troubadours) ; danced by Sachiyo Ito.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 2438

OCLC

NYPY98-F2883

Title

Sachiyo Ito & Company [electronic resource] : classical and contemporary Japanese dance.

Imprint

c1998.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York, on May 2, 1998. The dance Mai ohgi was videotaped on May 3, 1998. Video produced by Vagabond Video ; camera and editing, Charles Steiner.

Performer

Danced by Sachiyo Ito & Company.

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 9-5647.

Connect to:

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Added Author

Ito, Sachiyo, choreographer.

Ito, Sachiyo, dancer.

Richards, Terry, dancer.

Hurkin-Torres, Jean, dancer.

Ishimura, Misako, dancer.

Kineya, Shōjirō, 1803- Composer

Steiner, Charles. Videographer

Vagabond Video.

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

DHCA.

Added Title

Ayame (Choreographic work : Ito)

Kagero (Choreographic work : Ito)

Mai ohgi (Choreographic work : Ito)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 2438

*MGZIC 9-5647 (former)