Research Catalog

Title

Museum [videorecording] / [directed by] Ellen Robbins.

Publication

1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Robbins, Ellen.
• Robbins, Ellen
• Deem, George, 1932-2008.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (92 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This recital presents works choreographed by dance students; each piece is based on a painting, which is shown in a slide preceding the piece. The first and last pieces on the program were choreographed by the class's teacher, Ellen Robbins.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Dance Theater Workshop.

Subject

Child dancers

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Credits on-screen.

Event (note)

• Recorded at Dance Theater Workshop, New York City, on June 15, 1997.

Contents

School of Balthus [painting by George Deem] / choreography by Ellen Robbins; music by Cyndi Lauper; performed by the class with Kenneth Kimerling -- Green and yellow brushstrokes [painting by Roy Lichtenstein] / choreographed and performed by Anna Billibskog; music by Nils Lindberg -- Abstraction blue [painting by Georgia O'Keefe] / choreographed and performed by Hannah Stern; music by Ciaran Brennen -- The daughters of Edward D. Holt [painting by John Singer Sargent] / choreography by Cordelia Zuckerman; performed by Zuckerman, Dorothy Lee, Mikayla Nemes, Alica Tolan Mee; music by Franz Schubert -- Jasmine [painting by Judith Hudson] / choreographed and performed Annie Hudson Price; music by Ravi Shankar -- Lighthouse at two lights [painting by Edward Hopper] / choreographed and performed by Chelica Kimerling; music by Mason Daring -- Untitled [painting by Jasper Johns] / choreographed and performed Dorothy Lee; music by Chick Corea -- Orphean elegy [painting by Bridgitte Riley] / choreographed and performed by Julia Friedlander; music by Charles Ives -- The blind leading the blind [painting by Pieter Brueghel] / choreographed and performed by Chloe Kitzinger; music by Foday Musa Suso -- Golconde [painting by René Magritte] / choreographed and performed by Mikayla Nemes; music by Nina Rosta -- Starry night [painting by Vincent Van Gogh] / choreographed and performed by Clare Movshon; music by Ernst Chausson -- Oval still life-the violin [painting by Georges Braque] / choreography by Sarah Tolan Mee; performed by Sarah and Alice Tolan Mee; music by Scott Joplin -- Walk around Vermeer [paintings by Jan Vermeer] -- choreography by Ellen Robbins in collaboration with George Deem; performed by the class.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1596

OCLC

NYPG06-F514

Title

Museum [videorecording] / [directed by] Ellen Robbins.

Imprint

1997.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Recorded at Dance Theater Workshop, New York City, on June 15, 1997.

Local Subject

Child choreographers.

Added Author

Robbins, Ellen. Director

Robbins, Ellen, choreographer.

Deem, George, 1932-2008. Artist

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1596