Research Catalog

Title

Tania Isaac Dance [videorecording] : standpipe / choreography, Tania Isaac ; original music, Grisha Coleman ; [presented by] Bates Dance Festival.

Publication

2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Isaac, Tania
• Cisneros, Zoia
• Davis, Chloe (Dancer)
• Brentley, Nicholas
• Jackson, Eisa
• Smith, Miko Doi
• Madsen, Tara
• Chisena, Melissa
• Pollard, Trebien
• Faure, Laura.
• Whittenberg, Rodney.
• Coleman, Grisha.
• Richards, Peter.
• Tania Isaac Dance.
• Bates College (Lewiston, Me.)
• Bates Dance Festival.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (81 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Tania Isaac is originally from St. Lucia, West Indies. Her company Tania Isaac Dance is currently based in Philadelphia, Penn. where she continues to explore the esthetic, kinesiologic, cultural, political bases of contemporary dance.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Laura Faure, Bates Dance Festival.

Uniform Title

Standpipe (Choreographic work : Isaac)

Subjects

• Video
• Isaac, Tania
• Dance
• Dance, Black

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Question and answer session includes a discussion of Tania Isaac's new work, Standpipe. In addition, the dancers introduce themselves and describe how they became involved with this project.

Credits (note)

• Text, Tania Isaac ; additional text, Al Hendricks (An old Jamaican woman thinks about the hereafter) ; lighting design, Madison Cario ; stage design, Aaron Hyman, Madison Cario ; costume design, Jeannique Prospere ; video, Byron Karabatsos ; sound design/collage, Rodney Whittenberg, Tania Isaac ; music, Boukman Eskperyans (Maye a gaye), Hewannora Voices (Oswe-a) (St. Lucia), Harry Belafonte (Day-o), Sherrilyne Blakey-Smith (Yhanaway hay yowna), Hun Sarath with Mark Marder (Phnom Penh lullaby), Lee "Scratch" Perry (Megaton bomb), Mad Professor, Johann Sebastian Bach (Magnificat excerpt) ; engineered and produced by Rodney Whittenberg ; video documentation, Peter Richards.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in performance at Schaeffer Theater, Bates College, Lewiston, Me., as part of the Bates Dance Festival, on July 15, 2006.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Contents

Introduction (ca. 3 min.) / by Laura Faure, director of the Bates Dance Festival -- Standpipe (ca. 57 min.) -- Q & A [Question and answer session] (ca. 21 min.) / moderator, Laura Faure; participants, Tania Isaac Dance.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2458

OCLC

NYPY06-F252

Title

Tania Isaac Dance [videorecording] : standpipe / choreography, Tania Isaac ; original music, Grisha Coleman ; [presented by] Bates Dance Festival.

Imprint

2006.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD.

Credits

Text, Tania Isaac ; additional text, Al Hendricks (An old Jamaican woman thinks about the hereafter) ; lighting design, Madison Cario ; stage design, Aaron Hyman, Madison Cario ; costume design, Jeannique Prospere ; video, Byron Karabatsos ; sound design/collage, Rodney Whittenberg, Tania Isaac ; music, Boukman Eskperyans (Maye a gaye), Hewannora Voices (Oswe-a) (St. Lucia), Harry Belafonte (Day-o), Sherrilyne Blakey-Smith (Yhanaway hay yowna), Hun Sarath with Mark Marder (Phnom Penh lullaby), Lee "Scratch" Perry (Megaton bomb), Mad Professor, Johann Sebastian Bach (Magnificat excerpt) ; engineered and produced by Rodney Whittenberg ; video documentation, Peter Richards.

Performer

Performers, Zoia Cisneros, Chloe Davis, Nicholas Brentley, Tania Isaac, Eisa Jackson, Miko Doi Smith, Tara Madsen, Melissa Chisena, Trebien Pollard.

Event

Videotaped in performance at Schaeffer Theater, Bates College, Lewiston, Me., as part of the Bates Dance Festival, on July 15, 2006.

Added Author

Isaac, Tania, choreographer.

Isaac, Tania, dancer.

Cisneros, Zoia, dancer.

Davis, Chloe (Dancer)

Brentley, Nicholas, dancer.

Jackson, Eisa, dancer.

Smith, Miko Doi, dancer.

Madsen, Tara, dancer.

Chisena, Melissa, dancer.

Pollard, Trebien, dancer.

Faure, Laura. Moderator

Whittenberg, Rodney. Recording engineer

Coleman, Grisha. Composer

Richards, Peter. Videographer

Tania Isaac Dance.

Bates College (Lewiston, Me.)

Bates Dance Festival.

Added Title

Standpipe (Choreographic work : Isaac)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2458