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Homer Avila [excerpt] challenging challenges.

Title
Homer Avila [excerpt] [videorecording] : challenging challenges.
Publication
2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Avila, Homer
  • Weeks, Edisa
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (23 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Homer Avila presents work created in the year since losing his leg to cancer. The full performance includes the premiere of Alonzo King's Pas.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Patricia Paludanus.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Note
  • Full performance (53 min.) is available on the Kennedy Center website's Millennium Stage Performance Archive at URL: http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/archive.html.
  • Homer Avila was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2001 and had surgery to remove his right leg and hip. Avila died on Apr. 25, 2004.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in performance at Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage, Washington, D.C. on Aug. 10, 2002.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Contents
Introduction (ca. 2 min.) / by unidentified female speaker with sign language interpreter -- Duet with Edisa Weeks [video from before surgery] (ca. 8 min.) -- Solo (ca. 4 min.) -- Solo (ca. 4 min.) -- Instrumental solo (ca. 6 min.) / Performed by unidentified musician.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-2428
OCLC
NYPY06-F219
Title
Homer Avila [excerpt] [videorecording] : challenging challenges.
Imprint
2002.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
System Details
DVD.
Performer
Danced by Homer Avila and Edisa Weeks.
Event
Videotaped in performance at Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage, Washington, D.C. on Aug. 10, 2002.
Added Author
Avila, Homer, dancer.
Avila, Homer, choreographer.
Weeks, Edisa, dancer.
Paludanus, Patricia. Donor
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-2428
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