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Artists in exile a story of modern dance in San Francisco

Title: Artists in exile [videorecording] : a story of modern dance in San Francisco / Rapt Productions ; directed, produced, and edited by Austin Forbord and Shelley Trott.
Publication: c2000.

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Description

1 videocassette (86 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Documentary on 20th-century dance in San Francisco and the Bay Area, focusing on groundbreaking choreographers and companies. Interviews with the choreographers and artistic directors, along with their colleagues and contemporaries, explore their goals, achievements, impact, and influence on others. Also discussed is the unique creative atmosphere of the West Coast: its closeness to nature, openness to experimentalism and new work, tolerance for unconventional lifestyles and political activism. The interviewees, however, also voice frustrations with the lack of recognition and respect suffered by West Coast artists. The program is profusely illustrated with dance excerpts by the artists discussed and others ; additional information on many of these works appear in the end credits.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Joanna Harris.

Uniform Title

Parades and changes (Choreographic work : Halprin)
Deeply there (Choreographic work : Goode)
Versions by turns (Choreographic work : Jenkins)
Shelf life (Choreographic work : Jenkins)
Fault (Choreographic work : Jenkins)
Woman window square (Choreographic work : Jenkins)
Laundry cycle: the long and the short (Choreographic work : Way)
Revolutionary Nutcracker sweetie (Choreographic work : Fichter and Keefer)
Without a place (Choreographic work : Goode)
Mira (Choreographic work : Mann)
Mira, cycle 2 (Choreographic work : Mann)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Documentaries and factual films and programs.
Video.

Credits (note)

Director of photography, Austin Forbord ; recordist, Shelley Trott ; original score, Albert Mathias.

Performer (note)

Interviewees: Janice Ross, Terry Sendgraff, Theresa Dickinson, Ruth Zaporah, Byron Brown, Joe Goode, Amelia Rudolph, Krissy Keefer, John LeFan, Keith Hennessy, Sara Shelton Mann, K.T. Nelson, Rhodessa Jones, Mercy Sidbury, David Wood, Marni Wood, Margaret Jenkins, Della Davidson, Wayne Hazzard, Brenda Way, Robert Henry Johnson, Joanna Haigood, Stephanie Maher, Kim Epifano, José Maria Francos, Jo Kreiter, Stephen Pelton, Liz Burritt, Rita Felciano, Cid Pearlman, Shannon McGuire, Jesselito Bie, Remy Charlip, Jules Beckman, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Albert Mathias, Frank Shawl.

Contents

[Program sections:] Anna Halprin -- Mangrove -- Tumbleweed -- Margaret Jenkins -- ODC/San Francisco -- The Dance Brigade -- Joe Goode -- Artists in exile -- Sara Shelton Mann/Contraband.
[Dance excerpts:] City dance / choreography, Anna Halprin -- Parades and changes / choreography, Anna Halprin -- Experiments in the environment -- Deeply there / choreography, Joe Goode -- Cross roads / choreography, Sara Shelton Mann -- The body project / choreography, Jo Kreiter -- Versions by turns / direction, Margaret Jenkins -- Shelf life / direction, Margaret Jenkins -- Fault / direction, Margaret Jenkins, Ellie Klopp -- Woman window square / direction, Margaret Jenkins -- Natural causes / choreography, Brenda Way -- Garden tour / choreography, Brenda Way -- Weird weather / choreography, Brenda Way -- Laundry cycles / choreography, Brenda Way -- On the loose / choreography, K.T. Nelson -- Pandora's box / choreography, Dance Brigade, Krissy Keefer -- Queen of Sheba / choreography, Krissy Keefer -- Bring the war home / choreography, Dance Brigade -- Revolutionary Nutcracker sweetie / choreography, Dance Brigade, Krissy Keefer, Nina Fichter -- Widows / choreography, Joe Goode and Company -- Take place / choreography, Joe Goode and Company -- Gender heroes / choreography, Joe Goode and Company -- Without a place / choreography, Joe Goode and Company -- 29 effeminate gestures / choreography, Joe Goode -- Remembering the pool at the Best Western / choreography, Joe Goode and Company -- Mira I / choreography, Sara Shelton Mann -- Mira II / choreography, Sara Shelton Mann -- Evol / choreography, Sara Shelton Mann.
[Dance excerpts, continued:] Religare / choreography, Sara Shelton Mann -- Oracle / choreography, Sara Shelton Mann. Some excerpts not identified on frame.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5783

OCLC

49558367
NYPY02-F491

Title

Artists in exile [videorecording] : a story of modern dance in San Francisco / Rapt Productions ; directed, produced, and edited by Austin Forbord and Shelley Trott.

Imprint

c2000.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Credits

Director of photography, Austin Forbord ; recordist, Shelley Trott ; original score, Albert Mathias.

Performer

Interviewees: Janice Ross, Terry Sendgraff, Theresa Dickinson, Ruth Zaporah, Byron Brown, Joe Goode, Amelia Rudolph, Krissy Keefer, John LeFan, Keith Hennessy, Sara Shelton Mann, K.T. Nelson, Rhodessa Jones, Mercy Sidbury, David Wood, Marni Wood, Margaret Jenkins, Della Davidson, Wayne Hazzard, Brenda Way, Robert Henry Johnson, Joanna Haigood, Stephanie Maher, Kim Epifano, José Maria Francos, Jo Kreiter, Stephen Pelton, Liz Burritt, Rita Felciano, Cid Pearlman, Shannon McGuire, Jesselito Bie, Remy Charlip, Jules Beckman, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Albert Mathias, Frank Shawl.

Local Subject

Contact improvisation

Postmodern dance -- California.

Dance -- Political aspects -- United States.

Homosexuality and dance.

Feminism and dance.

AIDS (Disease) and the arts.

Open air performances -- United States.

Aerial dancing.

Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- United States.

Added Author

Halprin, Anna, choreographer.

Halprin, Anna, interviewee.

Ross, Janice. Interviewee

Sendgraff, Terry. Interviewee

Dickinson, Theresa. Interviewee

Zaporah, Ruth, 1936- Interviewee

Brown, Byron. Interviewee

Goode, Joe. ive, choreographer, dancer.

Rudolph, Amelia. Interviewee

Keefer, Krissy. ive, choreographer.

LeFan, John. Interviewee

Hennessy, Keith. Interviewee

Mann, Sara Shelton. ive, choreographer.

Nelson, K. T. ive, choreographer.

Jones, Rhodessa. Interviewee

Sidbury, Mercy. Interviewee

Wood, David, 1925-2002. Interviewee

Wood, Marni. Interviewee

Jenkins, Margaret. ive, choreographer.

Davidson, Della. Interviewee

Hazzard, Wayne. Interviewee

Way, Brenda. ive, choreographer.

Johnson, Robert Henry. Interviewee

Haigood, Joanna. Interviewee

Maher, Stephanie. Interviewee

Epifano, Kim. Interviewee

Francos, José Maria. Interviewee

Kreiter, Jo. ive, choreographer.

Pelton, Stephen. Interviewee

Burritt, Elizabeth. Interviewee

Felciano, Rita. Interviewee

Pearlman, Cid. Interviewee

McGuire, Shannon. Interviewee

Bie, Jessilito Cocjin. Interviewee

Charlip, Remy. Interviewee

Beckman, Jules. Interviewee

Hermesdorf, Kathleen. Interviewee

Mathias, Albert. Interviewee. Composer

Shawl, Frank. Interviewee

Forbord, Austin. Producer. Director. Film editor

Trott, Shelley. Producer. Director. Film editor

Klopp, Ellie, choreographer.

Fichter, Nina, choreographer.

Mangrove (Company)

Tumbleweed (Company)

Margaret Jenkins Dance Company.

ODC/San Francisco (Company)

Dance Brigade (Company)

Wallflower Order Dance Collective.

Joe Goode Performance Group.

Contraband (Company)

Flyaway Productions.

Rapt Productions.

Added Title

Parades and changes (Choreographic work : Halprin)

Deeply there (Choreographic work : Goode)

Versions by turns (Choreographic work : Jenkins)

Shelf life (Choreographic work : Jenkins)

Fault (Choreographic work : Jenkins)

Woman window square (Choreographic work : Jenkins)

Laundry cycle: the long and the short (Choreographic work : Way)

Revolutionary Nutcracker sweetie (Choreographic work : Fichter and Keefer)

Without a place (Choreographic work : Goode)

Mira (Choreographic work : Mann)

Mira, cycle 2 (Choreographic work : Mann)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5783

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