Research Catalog

Title

The horse's mouth greets the new millennium, Interview session 2 [videorecording]

Publication

c2000.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Wolin-Manker, Roberta.
• Kinney, Sharon.
• Wenta, Stefan.
• Blake, Laurence.
• Gunn, Nicholas, 1947-
• Lewett, Linda.
• New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

Description

1 videocassette (44 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Interviews with four of the dancer-choreographers who performed in the Los Angeles performance of The horse's mouth greets the new millennium. For a recording of the performance itself, see *MGZIA 4-4700.

Subjects

• Interviews
• Dance
• Choreographers > United States > 20th century
• Dancers > United States > 20th century
• Video
• Horse's mouth greets the new millennium (Choreographic work : Croll and Cunningham)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Interviews.
• Video.

Note

• Recording made possible by the cooperation of Tina Croll/James Cunningham, Japan America Theater, Dance Kaleidoscope, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.

Performer (note)

• Interviewees (in order of appearance): Roberta Wolin-Manker, Sharon Kinney, Stefan Wenta, Laurence Blake.
• Interviewer: Nicholas Gunn.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Japan America Theater, Los Angeles, Calif., on July 20, 2000 ; video producer/camera, Linda Lewett.

Funding (note)

• This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
• Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Contents

• Roberta Wolin-Manker (ca. 8 min.) / topics include: her dance company, founded with Robert Whidbee in 1987 and active for eight years ; her use of choreographic themes dealing with exclusion, injustice, inequality and other social problems ; her recent move to themes of spirituality and transformation ; recent work with her mentor Marion Scott on the Spirit Dances project.
• Sharon Kinney (ca. 12 min.) / topics include: working with Paul Taylor's company ; balancing motherhood and a performing career ; her current work as a filmmaker, including a documentary about The horse's mouth project (see *MGZIA 4-3999 "From the horse's mouth," the documentary).
• Stefan Wenta (ca. 14 min.) / topics include: his performing career in his native Poland and in France, where he danced with the Théâtre d'Art du Ballet in works staged by Vitale Fokine, and with Leonide Massine's Ballets Européens ; his work as a playwright, which brought him to Los Angeles ; teaching and choreographing in Los Angeles.
• Laurence Blake (ca. 9 min.) / topics include: his early dance training ; dancing with the Joffrey Ballet, whose varied repertory appealed to him ; teaching and choreographing in Los Angeles.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4705

OCLC

NYPY01-F136

Title

The horse's mouth greets the new millennium, Interview session 2 [videorecording]

Imprint

c2000.

Event

Videotaped at the Japan America Theater, Los Angeles, Calif., on July 20, 2000 ; video producer/camera, Linda Lewett.

Performer

Interviewees (in order of appearance): Roberta Wolin-Manker, Sharon Kinney, Stefan Wenta, Laurence Blake.

Interviewer: Nicholas Gunn.

Funding

This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

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

Added Author

Wolin-Manker, Roberta. Interviewee

Kinney, Sharon. Interviewee

Wenta, Stefan. Interviewee

Blake, Laurence. Interviewee

Gunn, Nicholas, 1947- Interviewer

Lewett, Linda. Producer

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4705