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Vers la flamme Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title: Vers la flamme [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication: 1999.

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Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (80 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This program features a panel discussion on Martha Clarke's Vers la flamme, interspersed with performances of excerpts from the work. Clarke discusses adapting the work from several of Anton Chekhov's short stories, including The darling, Enemies, The grasshopper, The lady with the lap dog, and A nervous breakdown. Clarke also discusses the choice of compositions by Aleksandr Scriabin to accompany each piece. O'Riley discusses the music in greater detail, and Clarke talks about her process, from casting to improvisatory collaboration with the dancers to working with the designers. Film clips of three excerpts from Vers la flamme are screened, and a fourth is performed live. The recording ends abruptly, before the program is completed.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 121.

Uniform Title

Vers la flamme (Choreographic work : Clarke). Selections.
Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Video.
Dance.
Music.

Credits (note)

Performance excerpts directed and choreographed by Martha Clarke.

Event (note)

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Sept. 12, 1999.

Funding (note)

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Biography (note)

Vers la flamme debuted at the American Dance Festival at Duke University in Durham, N.C., in June 1999.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1122

OCLC

86084779

Title

Vers la flamme [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

1999.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 121.

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Credits

Performance excerpts directed and choreographed by Martha Clarke.

Performer

Excerpts performed by George de la Pena and Paola [Polly] Styron. Pianist: Christopher O'Riley. Panelists: Martha Clarke and Christopher O'Riley. Moderator: Harlow Robinson.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Sept. 12, 1999.

Funding

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Biography

Vers la flamme debuted at the American Dance Festival at Duke University in Durham, N.C., in June 1999.

Added Author

Clarke, Martha. Director

Clarke, Martha, choreographer.

Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915. Composer

De la Pena, George, dancer.

Styron, Polly, dancer.

O'Riley, Christopher, 1956- Instrumentalist

Clarke, Martha. Interviewee

O'Riley, Christopher, 1956- Interviewee

Robinson, Harlow. Moderator

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Added Title

Vers la flamme (Choreographic work : Clarke). Selections.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1122

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