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Karole Armitage, wild ballerina

Title
Karole Armitage, wild ballerina [videorecording] / co-produced by Les Films d'Ici and La Sept ARTE in association with RM Associates and France Supervision, with the participation of Le Centre National de la Cinématographie ; directed by Mark Kidel ; produced by Serge Lalou.
Publication
1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Armitage, Karole
  • Armitage, Karole.
  • Sommer, Sally R.
  • Salle, David, 1952-
  • Lacroix, Christian, 1951-
  • Kidel, Mark.
  • Lalou, Serge.
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
  • Maggiodanza.
  • Films d'ici (Firm)
  • SEPT (Television station : France)
  • Association relative à la télévision européenne.
  • Reiner Moritz Associates.
  • France Supervision (Firm)
  • Centre national de la cinématographie (France)
  • DHCA.
Description
1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Profile of dancer-choreographer Karole Armitage, much of it in her own words. The program begins with a discussion of her evening-length work The predators' ball: hucksters of the soul, which she presented in several versions between 1994 and 1996. Looking back upon her career, Armitage describes her beginnings as a ballet dancer, and her discovery of the work of Merce Cunningham, whose company she joined. She discusses her own choreography and its aims, her establishment of her own company in the 1980s, her move to France, and her appointment to the directorship of MaggioDanza in Florence, and compares audience and critical reactions to her innovations in the U.S. and Europe. Additional insights are offered by her friend Joan Juliet Buck; dance historian Sally Sommer; Armitage's husband, the painter David Salle; and fashion designer Christian Lacroix.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Les Films d'Ici.
Uniform Title
  • Predators' ball (Choreographic work : Armitage)
  • Vertige (Choreographic work : Armitage)
  • Watteau duets (Choreographic work : Armitage)
  • Gogo ballerina (Choreographic work : Armitage)
  • Elizabethan phrasing of the late Albert Ayler (Choreographic work : Armitage)
  • Anges ternis (Choreographic work : Armitage)
  • Weather of reality (Choreographic work : Armitage)
  • Channels/Inserts (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Note
  • Letterbox format.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewees: Karole Armitage, Joan Juliet Buck, Sally Sommer, David Salle, Christian Lacroix.
Language (note)
  • In English; brief sections in French with English subtitles.
Contents
Dance excerpts: Depicted in performance excerpts are Armitage's works The predators' ball (1996) and its earlier incarnation Hucksters of the soul (1993), Vertige (1980), The Watteau duets (1985), Gogo ballerina (1988), The Elizabethan phrasing of the late Albert Ayler (1986), The tarnished angels (1987), and Weather of reality (1997), as well as Merce Cunningham's Channels/Inserts (1981).
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3033
OCLC
NYPY98-F3021
Title
Karole Armitage, wild ballerina [videorecording] / co-produced by Les Films d'Ici and La Sept ARTE in association with RM Associates and France Supervision, with the participation of Le Centre National de la Cinématographie ; directed by Mark Kidel ; produced by Serge Lalou.
Imprint
1998.
Performer
Interviewees: Karole Armitage, Joan Juliet Buck, Sally Sommer, David Salle, Christian Lacroix.
Language
In English; brief sections in French with English subtitles.
Added Author
Armitage, Karole, choreographer.
Armitage, Karole. Interviewee
Sommer, Sally R. Interviewee
Salle, David, 1952- Interviewee
Lacroix, Christian, 1951- Interviewee
Kidel, Mark. Director
Lalou, Serge. Producer
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Maggiodanza.
Films d'ici (Firm)
SEPT (Television station : France)
Association relative à la télévision européenne.
Reiner Moritz Associates.
France Supervision (Firm)
Centre national de la cinématographie (France)
DHCA.
Added Title
Predators' ball (Choreographic work : Armitage)
Vertige (Choreographic work : Armitage)
Watteau duets (Choreographic work : Armitage)
Gogo ballerina (Choreographic work : Armitage)
Elizabethan phrasing of the late Albert Ayler (Choreographic work : Armitage)
Anges ternis (Choreographic work : Armitage)
Weather of reality (Choreographic work : Armitage)
Channels/Inserts (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3033
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