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The life and art of Isadora Duncan with author Peter Kurth and solo dance artist Lori Belilove

Title
The life and art of Isadora Duncan [videorecording] : with author Peter Kurth and solo dance artist Lori Belilove / presented by Chicago Public Library ; a production of the Office of Municipal Television, Chicago Arts 49, in cooperation with Chicago Public Library ; directed for Municipal Television by Ken Davis ; artistic direction by Lori Belilove ; choreography after Isadora Duncan.
Publication
2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Kurth, Peter.
  • Belilove, Lori
  • Clemens, Stephanie
  • Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927
  • Chicago Public Library.
  • Harold Washington Library Center (Chicago Public Library)
Description
1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (21 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
In a presentation combining the spoken word and dance, Peter Kurth discusses and reads excerpts from his biography Isadora Duncan: a sensational life (2001), and dancer Lori Belilove performs examples of Duncan's choreography. The examples include Water study (1910), Nocturne (1910), Death and the maiden (1915), Dance of the Furies and tormented souls (1904), Mother (1921-1925), Revolutionary (Ode to the oppressed) (1921-1925), and The blue Danube (1902).
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Lori Belilove.
Subject
Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Credits (note)
  • Staging and costumes, Lori Belilove; lighting, Mike Dutka.
Performer (note)
  • Speaker: Peter Kurth.
Event (note)
  • Recorded at the Harold Washington Library, Chicago, Ill., on March 13, 2002.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-7222
OCLC
NYPY03-F585
Title
The life and art of Isadora Duncan [videorecording] : with author Peter Kurth and solo dance artist Lori Belilove / presented by Chicago Public Library ; a production of the Office of Municipal Television, Chicago Arts 49, in cooperation with Chicago Public Library ; directed for Municipal Television by Ken Davis ; artistic direction by Lori Belilove ; choreography after Isadora Duncan.
Imprint
2002.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Event
Recorded at the Harold Washington Library, Chicago, Ill., on March 13, 2002.
Credits
Staging and costumes, Lori Belilove; lighting, Mike Dutka.
Performer
Speaker: Peter Kurth.
Dancer: Lori Belilove.
Special guest artist: Stephanie Clemens.
Local Subject
Duncan dancing.
Added Author
Kurth, Peter. Author. Speaker
Belilove, Lori, dancer.
Clemens, Stephanie, dancer.
Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927, choreographer.
Chicago Public Library.
Harold Washington Library Center (Chicago Public Library)
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-7222
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