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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Title: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater [videorecording] / artistic director, Judith Jamison.
Publication: c2007.

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Description

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

Uniform Title

Gamelan gardens (Choreographic work : Armitage)
Pas de Duke (Choreographic work : Ailey)
Existence without form (Choreographic work : Sands)
Catherine wheel (Choreographic work : Tharp)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Recording made possible by the cooperation of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, City Center, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
The sections of Gamelan gardens are: Movement I: Elephant's ears -- Movement II: Stampede -- Movement III: The park.

Credits (note)

Video production crew: producer, Bobby Shepard ; editor, François Bernadi ; camera operators, Ronald Grey, Jonathan Weaver.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at City Center, New York, N.Y., on December 22, 2006.

Funding (note)

This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

System Details (note)

DVD.

Contents

Gamelan gardens (2006) (World premiere) (ca. 25 min.) / choreography by Karole Armitage ; music by Lou Harrison (Double concerto for violin, cello with Javanese gamelan) ; costume design by Peter Speliopoulos ; assistants to the choreographer, Armitage Gone! Dance ; lighting design by Clifton Taylor ; scenic design by David Salle and EJ Corrigan ; danced by Dwana Adiaha Smallwood, Clifton Brown, Linda Celeste Sims, Asha Thomas, Rosalyn Deshauteurs, Hope Boykin, Gwynenn Taylor Jones, Matthew Rushing, Jamar Roberts, Antonio Douthit, Kirven J. Boyd, Malik Le Nost.
Pas de duke (1976) (ca. 13 min.) / choreography by Alvin Ailey ; restaged by Masazumi Chaya ; music by Duke Ellington ; costumes by Rouben TerArutunian ; lighting by Chenault Spence ; danced by Linda Celeste Sims, Clifton Brown.
Existence without form (2006) (World premiere) (ca. 23 min.) / choreography by Uri Sands ; music composed by Christian Matjias (Na razie, bex Ciebie) ; costume design by Tulle & Dye ; lighting design by Al Crawford ; assistants to the choreographer, Toni Pierce-Sands & Eva Mohn ; danced by Asha Thomas, Dwana Adiaha Smallwood, Gwynenn Taylor Jones, Matthew Rushing, Glenn Allen Sims, Abdur-Rahim Jackson, Jamar Roberts.
The golden section [of The Catherine wheel] (1983) (Company premiere) (ca. 19 min.) / choreography by Twyla Tharp ; staged by Shelly Washington ; music composed and performed by David Byrne ; costume design by Santo Loquasto ; lighting design by Jennifer Tipton ; danced by Dwana Adiaha Smallwood, Linda Celeste Sims, Asha Thomas, Wendy White Sasser, Roxanne Lyst, Gwynenn Taylor Jones, Matthew Rushing, Glenn Allen Sims, Clifton Brown, Antonio Douthit, Kirven J. Boyd, Jamar Roberts, Milak Le Nost.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2993

OCLC

152628189

Title

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater [videorecording] / artistic director, Judith Jamison.

Imprint

c2007.

System Details

DVD.

Event

Videotaped in performance at City Center, New York, N.Y., on December 22, 2006.

Credits

Video production crew: producer, Bobby Shepard ; editor, François Bernadi ; camera operators, Ronald Grey, Jonathan Weaver.

Performer

Danced by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Funding

This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Added Author

Smallwood, Dwana, dancer.

Boyd, Kirven J., dancer.

Brown, Clifton, dancer.

Douthit, Antonio, dancer.

Boykin, Hope, dancer.

Jackson, Abdur-Rahim, dancer.

Jones, Gwynenn Taylor, dancer.

Le Nost, Malik, dancer.

Lyst, Roxanne, dancer.

Rushing, Matthew, 1973- dancer.

Roberts, Jamar, dancer.

Sasser, Wendy White, dancer.

Deshauteurs, Rosalyn, dancer.

Sims, Glenn A. (Glenn Allen), dancer.

Thomas, Asha, dancer.

Jamison, Judith. Director

Armitage, Karole, choreographer.

Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003. Composer

Taylor, Clifton. Lighting designer

Salle, David, 1952- Set designer

Ailey, Alvin, choreographer.

Chaya, Masazumi. Restager

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974. Composer

Ter-Arutunian, Rouben, 1920-1992. Costume designer

Spence, Chenault. Lighting designer

Sands, Uri, choreographer.

Matjias, Christian. Composer

Crawford, Al. Lighting designer

Tharp, Twyla, choreographer.

Washington, Shelley. Restager

Byrne, David, 1952- Composer

Loquasto, Santo, costume designer.

Tipton, Jennifer, lighting designer.

Shepard, Bobby. Videographer

Bernadi, François, editor of moving image work.

New York Public Library. Dance Division.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Added Title

Gamelan gardens (Choreographic work : Armitage)

Pas de Duke (Choreographic work : Ailey)

Existence without form (Choreographic work : Sands)

Catherine wheel (Choreographic work : Tharp)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2993

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