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Pearl Lang Dance Theater

Title: Pearl Lang Dance Theater [videorecording] / direction and choreography by Pearl Lang.
Publication: c1995.

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Description

1 videocassette (78 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Uniform Title

Cantigas ladino (Choreographic work : Lang)
Quartets (Choreographic work : Lang)
I never saw another butterfly (Choreographic work : Lang)
And again a beginning (Choreographic work : Lang)
Tehillim (Choreographic work : Lang)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Recording made possible by the cooperation of Pearl Lang Dance Theater, the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Collection, The New York Public Library.
Accompanied by house program.

Credits (note)

Lighting, John McKernon.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, New York, on January 29, 1995, by Penny Ward Video ; first camera, Penny Ward ; second camera, Jennifer Holub ; editing, Judy Lieff.

Funding (note)

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

Contents

Cantigas ladino (Judeo-Spanish songs) (ca. 15 min.) / costumes, Christina Giannini. Cast: "When King Nimrod" / danced by the Company ; sung by Raphael El Nadav -- "Eyn keloheynu" (There is none like our God) / music arr. by Alhambra ; danced by the Company ; sung by Isabelle Ganz -- "Noches noches" / guitar arrangement, Stanley Sussman ; danced by Noreen Pietri ; sung by Raphael El Nadav.
Quartets (ca. 25 min.) / music, Franz Schubert ; costumes, Leslie Myers, Aureleano Cantu. Cast: Quartet #12 / danced by Anne Tobias, Elizabeth Auclair, Leslie Myers, with Lexuri Gallastegi, Heather Harrington, Silvana Eder, Sandra Kaufmann -- Quartet #15 (first movement) / danced by the Company.
I never saw another butterfly (revival) (ca. 22 min.) / music, Henry Cowell, Igor Stravinsky, Irving Srul Glick ; set, Don Jensen ; costumes, Christina Giannini ; danced by Lexuri Gallastegi, Virginie Mécène, Cyndi Goerig, Cheryl Toby, Constanza Brncic, Chiara Spisito, Yoel Caselle, Todd Stone, Tadej Brdnic. Work in seven sections: Narrative / written by Petr Fischl -- "Only silent hunger" / music, Stravinsky ; poem, Mif -- Game dance / music, Cowell ; danced by Yoel Caselle, Tadej Brdnic -- Lullabye / music, Stravinsky -- "On a sunny evening" / music, Cowell ; poem, anonymous, written by children of barracks L318 and L417 ; danced by Cyndi Goerig -- "The butterfly" / music, Glick ; poem by Pavel Friedman -- "This evening I walked along the street of death" / music, Cowell. Excerpts from children's poems, drawings and watercolors found in the Terezin concentration camp at the end of World War II.
And again a beginning (premiere) (ca. 7 min.) / music, Aaron Copland (Flute and piano duo, first movement) ; danced by Rika Okamoto, Virginie Mécène, Kevin Predmore.
Tehillim (Psalm 150) (ca. 8 min.) / music, Steve Reich (Tehillim, fourth movement) ; costumes, Christina Giannini ; danced by Sandra Kaufmann, Elizabeth Auclair, Anne Tobias, Noreen Pietri, Leslie Myers, Silvana Eder, Cathy Moses.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3704

OCLC

NYPY00-F285

Title

Pearl Lang Dance Theater [videorecording] / direction and choreography by Pearl Lang.

Imprint

c1995.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, New York, on January 29, 1995, by Penny Ward Video ; first camera, Penny Ward ; second camera, Jennifer Holub ; editing, Judy Lieff.

Credits

Lighting, John McKernon.

Performer

Danced by Pearl Lang Dance Theater: Elizabeth Auclair, Silvana Eder, Lexuri Gallastegi, Heather Harrington, Sandra Kaufmann, Virginie Mécène, Cathy Moses, Leslie Myers, Noreen Pietri, Anne Tobias, Ian Betts, Andreas Bjørneboe, Javier Dzul, Rika Okamoto, Kevin Predmore.

Funding

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

Added Author

Auclair, Elizabeth, dancer.

Eder, Silvana, dancer.

Gallastegi, Lexuri, dancer.

Harrington, Heather, dancer.

Kaufman, Sandra, dancer.

Mécène, Virginie, dancer.

Moses, Cathy, dancer.

Myers, Leslie R., dancer.

Pietri, Noreen, dancer.

Tobias, Anne, dancer.

Betts, Ian, dancer.

Bjørneboe, Andreas, dancer.

Dzul, Javier, dancer.

Okamoto, Rika, dancer.

Predmore, Kevin, dancer.

Goerig, Cyndi, dancer.

Toby, Cheryl, dancer.

Brncic, Constanza, dancer.

Spisito, Chiara, dancer.

Caselle, Yoel, dancer.

Stone, Todd Lawrence, dancer.

Brdnic, Tadej, dancer.

Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009, choreographer.

McKernon, John. Lighting designer

Giannini, Christina. Costume designer

Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Composer

Myers, Leslie R. Costume designer

Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965. Composer

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Composer

Glick, Srul Irving, 1934- Composer

Jensen, Don. Designer

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Composer

Reich, Steve, 1936- Composer

Ward, Penny.

Holub, Jenny.

Lieff, Judith. Film editor

Pearl Lang and Company.

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

DHCA.

Added Title

Cantigas ladino (Choreographic work : Lang)

Quartets (Choreographic work : Lang)

I never saw another butterfly (Choreographic work : Lang)

And again a beginning (Choreographic work : Lang)

Tehillim (Choreographic work : Lang)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3704

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