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Title

Legacy [videorecording] : (for Pola) / Danspace Project presents Schandelmeier & Co. ; choreography by Laura Schandelmeier ; choreography for Exuberance by Pola Nirenska.

Publication

1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nirenska, Pola
• Schandelmeier, Laura
• Rufty, Eleanor.
• Robins, Reed.
• Flowers, Roma.
• Gruenke, Jae
• Hedewig, Guta
• Mahler, Barbara
• Odo, Rachel
• Danspace Project (New York, N.Y.)

Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (41 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Modern dance work created as an homage to Polish-born dancer-choreographer Pola Nirenska (1910-1992).

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Dance Theater Workshop.

Uniform Title

Legacy (Choreographic work : Schandelmeier)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Tape also includes credits for a second work, A Holocaust tetralogy, which does not appear on this recording.
• Additional data from house program.

Credits (note)

• Costumes, Eleanor Rufty ; sound design, Reed Robins ; lighting, Roma Flowers [credited to Emily Stork on house program].

Event (note)

• Videotaped in performance at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York, N.Y., as part of A tribute to Pola Nirenska, in Feb. 1994.

Contents

[The sections of the work are:] My Spanish skirt / music, Maurice Ravel (Concerto for piano and orchestra, 2nd movement, Adagio assai); danced by Laura Schandelmeier -- Fledgling / music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Divertimento in B flat major, K 287, Adagio); danced by Jae Gruenke, Guta Hedewig, Barbara Mahler, Rachel Odo -- Exuberance / choreography, Pola Nirenska (1986) for Laura Schandelmeier; music, J.S. Bach ("Little" Fugue in G minor); danced by Laura Schandelmeier -- Feast / music, Viennese waltzes and polkas played on antique music boxes; danced by Jae Gruenke, Guta Hedewig, Barbara Mahler, Rachel Odo, Laura Schandelmeier -- Scrapbook / music, Maurice Ravel (sections from Valses nobles et sentimentales); danced by Jae Gruenke, Guta Hedewig, Barbara Mahler, Rachel Odo, Laura Schandelmeier -- Acquiescence / music, Maurice Ravel (Pavane pour une Infante de?funte); danced by Jae Gruenke, Guta Hedewig, Barbara Mahler, Rachel Odo, Laura Schandelmeier.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-8123

OCLC

NYPY05-F10056

Title

Legacy [videorecording] : (for Pola) / Danspace Project presents Schandelmeier & Co. ; choreography by Laura Schandelmeier ; choreography for Exuberance by Pola Nirenska.

Imprint

1994.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Credits

Costumes, Eleanor Rufty ; sound design, Reed Robins ; lighting, Roma Flowers [credited to Emily Stork on house program].

Performer

Danced by Schandelmeier & Co.: Laura Schandelmeier, Jae Gruenke, Guta Hedewig, Barbara Mahler, Rachel Odo.

Event

Videotaped in performance at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York, N.Y., as part of A tribute to Pola Nirenska, in Feb. 1994.

Added Author

Nirenska, Pola, choreographer. Honoree

Schandelmeier, Laura, choreographer, dancer.

Rufty, Eleanor. Costume designer

Robins, Reed. Production personnel

Flowers, Roma. Lighting designer

Gruenke, Jae, dancer.

Hedewig, Guta, dancer.

Mahler, Barbara, dancer.

Odo, Rachel, dancer.

Danspace Project (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Legacy (Choreographic work : Schandelmeier)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-8123