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Bessie Schönberg looking at dance.

Title
Bessie Schönberg [videorecording] : looking at dance.
Publication
1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Schönberg, Bessie.
  • Vanover, Harmony.
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Description
1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (46 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
Norton Owen, associate director of Jacob's Pillow, introduces Bessie Schönberg to a group of interns working at Jacob's Pillow during the summer of 1986. Schönberg speaks about how to look at dance, concentrating mainly on the difficulties presented by new dance. She discusses intellectual versus kinetic aspects of dance; the titles of new dance works; the downtown New York dance scene, the Dance Theatre Workshop and Bessie Schönberg Theatre; the importance of seeing new dance works more than once. Schönberg comments on the work of Danny Buraczeski, Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Victoria Marks, all of whose works were performed at Jacob's Pillow in 1986. Schönberg recalls her experience dancing with Martha Graham and her interest in modern art during her youth in Dresden.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Genre/Form
Video.
Note
  • Title from original container.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer: Harmony Vanover.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped at Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Mass., on Aug. 21, 1986.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-6957
OCLC
NYPT04-F265
Title
Bessie Schönberg [videorecording] : looking at dance.
Imprint
1986.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Credits
Videographer: Harmony Vanover.
Performer
Speaker: Bessie Schönberg.
Event
Videotaped at Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Mass., on Aug. 21, 1986.
Local Subject
Postmodern dance.
Dance audiences.
Added Author
Schönberg, Bessie. Speaker
Vanover, Harmony. Videographer
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-6957
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