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Air for the G string

Title: Air for the G string [videorecording] / presented by the National Doris Humphrey Society in collaboration with Princeton Book Company, Publishers, Momenta Performing Arts Company, Ernestine Stodelle and Reusch Dance Video ; artistic direction and coaching commentaries by Ernestine Stodelle ; video director, Amy Reusch ; project director, Stephanie Clemens ; choreography by Doris Humphrey (1928) ; music by Johann Sebastian Bach ("Air" from Suite no. 3 in D major)
Publication: Pennington, N.J. : Princeton Book Company, Publishers, c1997.

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Description

1 videocassette (91 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Ernestine Stodelle, a former member of the Humphrey-Weidman Company, coaches students in Doris Humphrey's Air for the G string, a work for five dancers. Analyzing the choreography section by section, she clarifies and refines its details, with attention to shape, timing, dynamics, and motivation. Key concepts are identified in subtitles. A b&w film of the work, recorded in 1934 with Doris Humphrey as the central dancer, is screened in full at the beginning and end of the coaching session, and excerpts from this film precede each section. A full performance of the work, recorded in 1995, concludes the tape. This tape is not intended as a means of learning the choreography, nor as a replacement for the notation score or a coach. All works by Doris Humphrey are copyrighted, and permission to perform them must be obtained from her son Charles Humphrey Woodford.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Amy Reusch.

Series Statement

Source experience: enriching the Humphrey legacy.

Uniform Title

Air for the G string (Choreographic work : Humphrey)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.

Note

A Dance Horizons Video.
Project made possible by a grant from the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD), a project underwritten by the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

Preparatory coaching, Gail Corbin ; final coaching, Ernestine Stodelle.

Event (note)

Videotaped in rehearsal at the Doris Humphrey Memorial Theater, Academy of Movement and Music, Oak Park, Ill., during the 5th and 6th annual Doris Humphrey Technique Workshops coordinated by the National Doris Humphrey Society in August 1994 and 1995. Preceded by b&w film performance by Doris Humphrey and dancers, recorded in 1934. Concluding performance, by the Silo Chamber Dancers, videotaped at La Guardia High School for Music and Dance and Performing Arts, New York, as part of Doris Humphrey: a centennial celebration, on October 22, 1995 ; videographer, Johannes Holub.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3011

OCLC

NYPY98-F2906

Title

Air for the G string [videorecording] / presented by the National Doris Humphrey Society in collaboration with Princeton Book Company, Publishers, Momenta Performing Arts Company, Ernestine Stodelle and Reusch Dance Video ; artistic direction and coaching commentaries by Ernestine Stodelle ; video director, Amy Reusch ; project director, Stephanie Clemens ; choreography by Doris Humphrey (1928) ; music by Johann Sebastian Bach ("Air" from Suite no. 3 in D major)

Imprint

Pennington, N.J. : Princeton Book Company, Publishers, c1997.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Source experience: enriching the Humphrey legacy.

Performer

Danced in 1934 film by Doris Humphrey, Cleo Atheneos, Ernestine Stodelle, Hyla Rubin, Dorothy Lathrop.

Danced in coaching session by Raphael Ziemba, Regina Wilken, Stephanie Clemens, Jeanne Warner, Maya Joseph.

Danced in concluding performance by the Silo Chamber Dancers: Siobhan Simisky, Katherine Blalock, Sandra Kaufman, Catherine Connal, Lydia Saad ; artistic director, Ernestine Stodelle.

Credits

Preparatory coaching, Gail Corbin ; final coaching, Ernestine Stodelle.

Event

Videotaped in rehearsal at the Doris Humphrey Memorial Theater, Academy of Movement and Music, Oak Park, Ill., during the 5th and 6th annual Doris Humphrey Technique Workshops coordinated by the National Doris Humphrey Society in August 1994 and 1995. Preceded by b&w film performance by Doris Humphrey and dancers, recorded in 1934. Concluding performance, by the Silo Chamber Dancers, videotaped at La Guardia High School for Music and Dance and Performing Arts, New York, as part of Doris Humphrey: a centennial celebration, on October 22, 1995 ; videographer, Johannes Holub.

Local Subject

Choreography -- Reconstruction.

Dance workshops and workshop performances.

Added Author

Stodelle, Ernestine. cmm, dancer.

Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958, choreographer.

Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958, dancer.

Atheneos, Cleo, dancer.

Rubin, Hyla, dancer.

Lathrop, Dorothy, dancer.

Ziemba, Raphael, dancer.

Wilken, Regina, dancer.

Clemens, Stephanie, dancer.

Warner, Jeanne, dancer.

Joseph, Maya, dancer.

Simisky, Siobhan, dancer.

Blalock, Katherine, dancer.

Kaufman, Sandra, dancer.

Connal, Cathy, dancer.

Saad, Lydia, dancer.

Corbin, Gail.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Composer

Reusch, Amy. Director

Clemens, Stephanie. Director

Holub, Johannes.

Silo Concert Dancers.

Doris Humphrey Society.

Princeton Book Company.

Momenta (Dance company)

Reusch Dance Video (Firm)

National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

International Doris Humphrey Centennial Celebration (1995 : New York, N.Y.)

DHCA.

Added Title

Air for the G string (Choreographic work : Humphrey)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3011

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