Research Catalog

Title

Appalachian spring [excerpts] [videorecording] / [presented by] the Martha Graham Dance Company ; choreography by Martha Graham.

Publication

1975.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993
• Graham, Martha
• Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.
• Kimura, Yuriko
• Parkes, Ross
• Eilber, Janet
• Mitchell, Lucinda
• Homsey, Bonnie Oda
• Chao, Jessica
• Monte, Elisa
• Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009
• Carter, William, 1936-1988
• Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.
• Gilfond, Edythe
• Rosenthal, Jean, 1912-
• Fitzgerald, Gerald
• Graham, Martha
• Martha Graham Dance Company

Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (12 min.) : si., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Excerpts from the modern dance work set to the music of Aaron Copland. The tape combines footage from two performances by Rudolf Nureyev in the role of the Preacher, danced with two different casts. At the end of the recording, Nureyev appears in bows with both casts. In the footage recorded at the company's "Americana Evening" gala on December 16, 1975, Martha Graham and Aaron Copland also appear for bows.

Series Statement

Gerald Fitzgerald Collection.

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Motion pictures.
• Video.

Note

• Originally filmed on Super 8mm.
• Date from original film box.

Credits (note)

• Set, Isamu Noguchi; costumes after Edythe Gilfond (credited to Martha Graham in 1977); lighting, Jean Rosenthal.

Performer (note)

• December 16, 1975: Yuriko Kimura (the bride); Ross Parkes (the husbandman); Janet Eilber (the pioneering woman); Rudolf Nureyev (the revivalist); Lucinda Mitchell, Bonnie Oda Homsey, Jessica Chao, Elisa Monte (the followers).
• [May 1977?]: Pearl Lang (the bride); William Carter (the husbandman); Janet Eilber (the pioneering woman); Rudolf Nureyev (the revivalist); others.
• Conductor on December 16, 1975: Aaron Copland.

Event (note)

• Filmed in performance at the Mark Hellinger Theater, New York, N.Y., as part of the Martha Graham Dance Company's Americana Evening on December 16, 1975, and at another performance (possibly at the Mark Hellinger Theater, New York, in May 1977); camera, Gerald Fitzgerald.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5541

OCLC

NYPY01-F1025

Title

Appalachian spring [excerpts] [videorecording] / [presented by] the Martha Graham Dance Company ; choreography by Martha Graham.

Imprint

1975.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Gerald Fitzgerald Collection.

Event

Filmed in performance at the Mark Hellinger Theater, New York, N.Y., as part of the Martha Graham Dance Company's Americana Evening on December 16, 1975, and at another performance (possibly at the Mark Hellinger Theater, New York, in May 1977); camera, Gerald Fitzgerald.

Credits

Set, Isamu Noguchi; costumes after Edythe Gilfond (credited to Martha Graham in 1977); lighting, Jean Rosenthal.

Performer

Danced by the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Guest artist: Rudolf Nureyev.

Cast

December 16, 1975: Yuriko Kimura (the bride); Ross Parkes (the husbandman); Janet Eilber (the pioneering woman); Rudolf Nureyev (the revivalist); Lucinda Mitchell, Bonnie Oda Homsey, Jessica Chao, Elisa Monte (the followers).

[May 1977?]: Pearl Lang (the bride); William Carter (the husbandman); Janet Eilber (the pioneering woman); Rudolf Nureyev (the revivalist); others.

Conductor on December 16, 1975: Aaron Copland.

Added Author

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer.

Graham, Martha, choreographer.

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Appalachian spring.

Kimura, Yuriko, dancer.

Parkes, Ross, dancer.

Eilber, Janet, dancer.

Mitchell, Lucinda, dancer.

Homsey, Bonnie Oda, dancer.

Chao, Jessica, dancer.

Monte, Elisa, dancer.

Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009, dancer.

Carter, William, 1936-1988, dancer.

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988. Designer

Gilfond, Edythe. Costume designer

Rosenthal, Jean, 1912- Designer

Fitzgerald, Gerald.

Martha Graham Dance Company.

Graham, Martha. Appalachian spring

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5541