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[Bessie Schönberg choreography workshop]

Title
[Bessie Schönberg choreography workshop] [videorecording]
Publication
[199-?]

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Additional Authors
  • Schönberg, Bessie.
  • Wright, Charles Brooks, 1951-
  • Sojkowski, Gary.
  • Jacob's Pillow School of the Dance.
Description
1 videocassette (122 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Compilation of a lecture-demonstration and two showings (the second incomplete) presented as part of a choreography workshop directed by Bessie Scḧőnberg, with Charles Wright as movement coordinator and Gary Sojkowski as music director and accompanist.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of the Estate of Bessie Schönberg.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped at Jacob's Pillow, Lee, Mass.
Contents
  • [Lecture-demonstration] (ca. 49 min.) / recorded outdoors on the Inside/Out stage ; speaker, Charles Wright ; accompanist, Gary Sojkowski. Workshop participants perform an abridged version of a typical warm-up, and examples of movement exercises done in class. Bessie Schönberg appears in the audience.
  • [Showing] (ca. 53 min.) / recorded in the studio ; speaker, Bessie Schönberg. Schönberg begins by introducing Charles Wright and Gary Sojkowski, and describing their roles in the workshop. She explains the assignments behind the various modern dance studies in the showing, which were choreographed by workshop participants. Among the performers are eight dancers from Dance Theatre of Harlem.
  • [Showing] (ca. 20 min.) / recorded in the studio ; speaker, Bessie Schönberg. As in the preceding footage, Schönberg begins by introducing Charles Wright and Gary Sojkowski, and describing their roles in the workshop. The tape ends before the conclusion of the program.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-4697
OCLC
NYPY00-F974
Title
[Bessie Schönberg choreography workshop] [videorecording]
Imprint
[199-?]
Event
Videotaped at Jacob's Pillow, Lee, Mass.
Local Subject
Choreographic workshops.
Dance workshops and workshop performances.
Open air performances -- United States.
Lecture-demonstrations.
Added Author
Schönberg, Bessie. Speaker
Wright, Charles Brooks, 1951- Speaker
Sojkowski, Gary. Instrumentalist
Jacob's Pillow School of the Dance.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-4697
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