Research Catalog

Title

[Choreography by Joel Schnee] [videorecording]

Publication

1987-1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schnee, Joel
• Oldfield, Mike, 1953-
• Czerniawski, Jerzy.
• Vermehren, Karin.
• Cage, John.
• Carte Blanche (Dance company)
• Würzburg (Germany). Stadttheater. Ballet.
• Osnabrück (Germany). Städtische Bühne. Ballet.
• Juilliard Dance Ensemble.

Description

2 videocassettes (VHS, PAL) (129 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Compilation of four dance works by Joel Schnee, an American-born, Juilliard-trained choreographer who has spent much of his career in Europe, particularly Germany.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Joel Schnee.

Uniform Title

• Back against the wall (Choreographic work : Schnee)
• Sofas (Choreographic work : Schnee)
• Four seasons (Choreographic work : Schnee)
• Miscellaneous combinations (Choreographic work : Schnee)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Program data provided by Joel Schnee.

Contents

• Cassette 1. Back against the wall (ca. 21 min.) / recorded at the premiere performance in Bergen, Norway, in 1991 or 1992; music, Mike Oldfield, Joel Schnee; commissioned and danced by Carte Blanche; dance soloist, Tommy Håkansson.
• Sofas (ca. 59 min.) / recorded at the premiere performance in Würzburg, Germany, in 1999; music collage, Will Meisel (Tausend Rote Rosen), Hector Zazou (Chez le commandeur), Sofia Gubaidulina (Quartet no. 2), Duke Ellington (Drop me off in Harlem, Black and tan fantasy, The sergeant was shy), John Cage (Amores no. 1 and no. 4), John Zorn (Mexico), John Oswald (Spectre-Short story no. 3), Louis Hardin (Synchrony), Elliott Sharp (Short story no. 1), Will Meisel (Tausend Rote Rosen); set, Jiri Janecek; costumes, Barbara Schwarzenberger; performed by the Ballettensemble of the Würzburg Stadttheater: Claudia Aki, Saskia Bartels, Pia Eitner, Nene Kitagawa, Anna Kosmider, Viola Michel, Takuya Sawa, Maxim Simonetti, Roman Slomski, Sebastian Wagner, Petr Zahradnicek, Ivo van Zwieten.
• Cassette 2. Ein Wintermärchen, from Vier Jahreszeiten [A winter's tale, from Four seasons] (ca. 26 min.) / recorded in dress rehearsal onstage at the Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück, Germany, in March 1984; music, Paul Hindemith (Der Dämon); scenery, Jerzy Czerniawski, Joel Schnee; costumes, Karin Vermehren; dramaturgy, Reingard Fröhlich; danced by the Tanztheater Osnabrück: Tommy Håkansson (Herr Winter), Beatrice Scherz (a woman), Ronald Rubey (a man), Badr el Ramah (man in an overcoat), Nicole Howard-Williams (ice skater), Vivien Lai (a woman), Enzo Fornaro (elegant woman), Doris Spühler and James Isbell (her servants), Lisa Kohl (mother), Miriam Schwartz (child). The date 06-06-00 on frame refers to the tape's re-recording.
• Miscellaneous combinations (ca. 23 min.) / recorded at the Juilliard Theater, New York, N.Y., on Mar. 30, 1987; video documentation, ARC Videodance; directed by Nancy Scattergood Jordan; music, John Cage; danced by the Juilliard Dance Ensemble: George Callahan, Kimberly Chapman, Marisol Figueroa, Owen Taylor, with Steven Beckon, Duane Cyrus, Diana Fantano, Linda Fung, Christina Gabriel, Jonathan Kane, Micah Lewis, Peter London, Margaret Pihl, Rebecca Stenn. For better visual quality and additional credits, see *MGZIA 4-7601 Miscellaneous combinations.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7749

OCLC

NYPY04-F317

Title

[Choreography by Joel Schnee] [videorecording]

Imprint

1987-1999.

Added Author

Schnee, Joel, choreographer. Composer. Set designer

Oldfield, Mike, 1953- Composer

Czerniawski, Jerzy. Set designer

Vermehren, Karin. Costume designer

Cage, John. Composer

Carte Blanche (Dance company)

Würzburg (Germany). Stadttheater. Ballet.

Osnabrück (Germany). Städtische Bühne. Ballet.

Juilliard Dance Ensemble.

Added Title

Back against the wall (Choreographic work : Schnee)

Sofas (Choreographic work : Schnee)

Four seasons (Choreographic work : Schnee)

Miscellaneous combinations (Choreographic work : Schnee)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7749