Research Catalog

Limón Dance Company

Title: Limón Dance Company [videorecording] / presented by the José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc. in association with the Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. ; founders, José Limón and Doris Humphrey ; artistic director, Carla Maxwell ; artistic mentor, Donald McKayle ; artistic associate, Nina Watt ; music director, David LaMarche.
Publication: c2002, 2001.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Moving image	Use in library	*MGZIA 4-5445	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Details

Additional Authors

Description

1 videocassette (76 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Uniform Title

Invention (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
Roads to hell (Choreographic work : King)
Short story (Choreographic work : Varone)
Isle (Choreographic work : Louis)
Moor's pavane (Choreographic work : Limón)

Note

Accompanied by house program.
Recording made possible by the cooperation of the Limón Dance Company, the Joyce Theater Foundation, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, N.Y., on November 24, 2001 (matinee) ; videography, Evann E. Siebens, Jonathon Beck ; sound, Kristian Dimitri Borysevicz ; editing, Mathieu Aleksandr Borysevicz.

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

Invention (ca. 15 min.) / choreography, Doris Humphrey ; staging and direction, Betty Jones ; rehearsal direction, Nina Watt ; music, Norman Lloyd ; costumes, Pauline Lawrence, recreated by Marion Williams ; lighting, Ted Sullivan ; danced by Robert Regala, Kristen Foote, Kimiye Corwin ; pianist, David LaMarche.
Excerpts from Roads to hell: Envy, Wrath (ca. 8 min.) / choreography, Eleanor King ; music, Geneviève Pitot ; lighting, Barry R. Gawinski, executed by Ted Sullivan ; danced by Risa Steinberg ; pianist, David LaMarche.
Short story (ca. 6 min.) / choreography, Doug Varone ; music, Sergei Rachmaninoff (Prelude in C sharp minor) ; costumes, Rachel Carr ; lighting, Ted Sullivan ; danced by Nina Watt, Doug Varone ; pianist, David LaMarche.
Isle (from an ancient legend) (ca. 23 min.) / choreography, Murray Louis ; music, Scott Killian (commissioned score) ; costumes, Frank Garcia ; lighting, Murray Louis and Alberto Del Saz, executed by Ted Sullivan ; danced by Roxane D'Orléans Juste and Dante Puleio, Francisco Ruvalcaba, Jonathan Riedel, Raphaël Boumaïla.
The moor's pavane (Variations on the theme of Othello) (ca. 22 min.) / choreography, José Limón ; direction, Carla Maxwell ; music, Henry Purcell, arr. by Simon Sadoff ; costumes, Pauline Lawrence ; lighting, Steve Woods ; danced by Francisco Ruvalcaba (the Moor) ; Raphaël Boumaïla (his friend) ; Mary Ford (his friend's wife) ; Roxane d'Orléans Juste (the Moor's wife). Dance work inspired by the play by William Shakespeare.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5445

OCLC

NYPY02-F47

Title

Limón Dance Company [videorecording] / presented by the José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc. in association with the Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. ; founders, José Limón and Doris Humphrey ; artistic director, Carla Maxwell ; artistic mentor, Donald McKayle ; artistic associate, Nina Watt ; music director, David LaMarche.

Imprint

c2002, 2001.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, N.Y., on November 24, 2001 (matinee) ; videography, Evann E. Siebens, Jonathon Beck ; sound, Kristian Dimitri Borysevicz ; editing, Mathieu Aleksandr Borysevicz.

Performer

Danced by the Limón Dance Company.

Guest artists: Risa Steinberg, Doug Varone.

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

Regala, Robert, dancer.

Foote, Kristen, dancer.

Corwin, Kimiye, dancer.

Steinberg, Risa, dancer.

Watt, Nina, dancer.

Varone, Doug, dancer, choreographer.

Juste, Roxane d'Orleans, dancer.

Puleio, Dante, dancer.

Ruvalcaba, Francisco, dancer.

Riedel, Jonathan, dancer.

Boumaïla, Raphaël, dancer.

Ford, Mary, dancer.

LaMarche, David. Musician

Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958, choreographer.

King, Eleanor, 1906-1991, choreographer.

Louis, Murray, choreographer.

Limón, José, choreographer.

Lloyd, Norman, 1909-1980. Composer

Jones, Betty, 1926-2020. Director

Lawrence, Pauline. Costume designer

Sullivan, Ted.

Pitot, Genevieve, 1901-1980. Composer

Gawinski, Barry R.

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943. Composer

Carr, Rachel. Costume designer

Killian, Scott. Composer

Garcia, Frank. Costume designer

Del Saz, Alberto.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Composer

Sadoff, Simon. Arranger

Maxwell, Carla. Director

Woods, Steve.

Siebens, Evann.

Beck, Jonathon.

José Limón Dance Company.

José Limón Dance Foundation.

Joyce Theater Foundation.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.

Added Title

Invention (Choreographic work : Humphrey)

Roads to hell (Choreographic work : King)

Short story (Choreographic work : Varone)

Isle (Choreographic work : Louis)

Moor's pavane (Choreographic work : Limón)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5445

View in Legacy Catalog