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Watermill [and] The concert [excerpts] rehearsals.

Title: Watermill [and] The concert [excerpts] [videorecording] : rehearsals. May 24, 1990 / choreography by Jerome Robbins; music by Teiji Ito and Frédéric Chopin.
Publication: 1990.

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Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (70 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Jerome Robbins, assisted by ballet master Jean Pierre Frohlich, directs a rehearsal of Watermill. Edward Villella, who danced the main role in this production, is not present in this rehearsal. The beginning and end of the ballet, and Villella's solos, are not rehearsed; all other sections of the ballet are rehearsed.
Jerome Robbins, assisted by ballet master Christine Redpath, directs a rehearsal of a pas de deux (Prelude, op. 28, nicknamed the "mad ballerina" pas de deux) from The concert. Robbins gives corrections and demonstrates choreography.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of New York City Ballet.

Uniform Title

Watermill (Choreographic work : Robbins)
Concert (Choreographic work : Robbins)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Dance rehearsals.

Event (note)

Videotaped in New York City Ballet studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, in New York City, on May 24, 1990.

System Details (note)

DVD.

Biography (note)

Watermill and The concert were performed as part of New York City Ballet's festival of Jerome Robbins' ballets in June, 1990, with Edward Villella appearing as a guest artist in Watermill.

Contents

Watermill (55 min.) -- The concert (15 min.)

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-531

OCLC

NYPG05-F10644

Title

Watermill [and] The concert [excerpts] [videorecording] : rehearsals. May 24, 1990 / choreography by Jerome Robbins; music by Teiji Ito and Frédéric Chopin.

Imprint

1990.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Watermill. Rehearsed by members of New York City Ballet, including Brian Reeder, Diana White, Edward Liang, Nilas Martins, Laurence Matthews, Paul Boos, Robert Lyon, Peter Naumann, Christopher Boehmer, Jerome Kipper, Gordon Stevens, Russell Kaiser, William Otto, Tracy Bennett, Kipling Houston, Ethan Stiefel, Carole Divet, Allison Brown, Teresa Reyes, and others.

The concert. Rehearsed by Darci Kistler and Carlo Marlo.

Event

Videotaped in New York City Ballet studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, in New York City, on May 24, 1990.

System Details

DVD.

Biography

Watermill and The concert were performed as part of New York City Ballet's festival of Jerome Robbins' ballets in June, 1990, with Edward Villella appearing as a guest artist in Watermill.

Added Author

Robbins, Jerome, choreographer. Director

Frohlich, Jean Pierre. Director

Reeder, Brian, dancer.

White, Diana (Ballet dancer), dancer.

Liang, Edward, dancer.

Kipper, Jerome, dancer.

Naumann, Peter Carl, dancer.

Houston, Kipling, dancer.

Matthews, Laurence, dancer.

Boos, Paul, dancer.

Stiefel, Ethan, dancer.

Reyes, Teresa (Ballet dancer), dancer.

Lyon, Robert, 1968- dancer.

Otto, William, 1958- dancer.

Boehmer, Christopher, dancer.

Divet, Carole, dancer.

Brown, Allison, dancer.

Stevens, Gordon, 1966- dancer.

Bennett, Tracy, dancer.

Martins, Nilas, dancer.

Kaiser, Russell, dancer.

Redpath, Christine. Director

Kistler, Darci, 1964- dancer.

Merlo, Carlo, dancer.

Itō, Teiji. Composer

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Composer

New York City Ballet.

Added Title

Watermill (Choreographic work : Robbins)

Concert (Choreographic work : Robbins)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-531

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