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Title

Points of departure [videorecording] / artistic director, Catherine Turocy ; [performed by] The New York Baroque Dance Company with Company XIV and Concert Royal.

Publication

c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Turocy, Catherine
• Beaman, Patricia
• Copeland, Caroline
• Duncan, Terence
• Edgar, Sarah
• Gayeski, Emily
• Walter, Aaron
• Williams, Seth
• McCormick, Austin
• Careless, Laura
• Glover, Yeva
• Ernst, Samantha
• Rainey, Davon
• Richman, James, 1949-
• Hammer, Stephen.
• Miller, Sandra.
• Roberts, Cynthia.
• Terry, Lisa.
• Kaufmann, Kathy.
• New York Public Library. Dance Division.
• New York Baroque Dance Company.
• Company XIV (Dance company)
• Concert Royal (Musical group : U.S.)
• Johannes Holub Videographers.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (69 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

• Accumulating Venus (Choreographic work : Beaman)
• Trompe l'oeil (Choreographic work : McCormick)
• Armida abbandonata (Choreographic work : Edgar)
• Point of departure (Choreographic work : Williams)
• Caprice (Choreographic work : Turocy)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Recording made possible by the cooperation of The New York Baroque Dance Company and Concert Royal, Company XIV, the James and Martha Duffy Performance Space, Mark Morris Dance Center, and The Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
• Accumulating Venus is based upon Anthony L'Abbé's Passacaille de Venüs et Adonis, London, ca. 1725 ; Trompe l'oeil is based upon L'Entrée d'Apollon and Les folies d'Espagne pour femme by Louis-Guillaume Pécour, Paris, 1700 with additional choreography and interpretation by Austin McCormick ; Armida abbandonata is based upon the A passacaille by Anthony L'Abbé, London, 1711, with reconstruction by Sarah Edgar and Deda Cristina Colonna ; Caprice is based upon selected figures from 18th century Spanish dances choreographed by Louis-Guillaume Pécour and Raoul Auger Feuillet, Paris, 1700-1725, with improvisation by the dancers within a structure devised by Catherin Turocy.

Credits (note)

• Lighting design, Kathry Kaufmann ; videotaped and edited by Johannes Holub Videographers.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in performance at the Mark Morris Dance Center, James and Martha Duffy Performance Space, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 28, 2007.

Funding (note)

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

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Contents

• Prelude, an introduction to the concert (premiere) (ca. 3 min.) / choreography, Catherine Turocy ; music, anonymous, c. 1700 ; costumes by caprice ; dancers, the companies.
• Accumulating Venus (New York premiere) (ca. 14 min.) / choreographed and danced by Patricia Beaman ; music: sound score by Justin Luchter, including excerpts by Henry Desmarest, keyboard originally played by Dongsok Shin ; costume design, Leslie Weinberg ; construction by Christian Milik ; mask, Jane Stein.
• Trompe l'oeil (premiere) (ca. 11 min.) / choreography, Austin McCormick ; music, Andrew Przbytkowski (an improvisation on the themes of "Cum Dederit Dilectus" from La tempesta by Antonio Vivaldi).
• Armida abbandonata (premiere) (ca. 14 min.) / choreographed and danced by Sarah Edgar ; music: Alla Montemaranese, Jean-Baptiste Lully (Armide, Act V. Scene I), Jean-Baptiste Lully (Armide, Passacaille), Henry Purcell (The fairy queen, The plaint) ; costume, Joy Havens.
• Point of departure (premiere) ( ca. 18 min.) / choreography, Seth Williams ; music, Daniel Becker ; costumes, Karen Young ; dancers: Laura Careless, Caroline Copeland (rehearsal director), Terence Duncan, Samantha Ernst, Emily Gayeski (understudy), Yeva Glover, Aaron Walter, Seth Williams.
• Caprice (premiere) (ca. 9 min.) / choreography, Catherine Turocy ; music, Nicola Matteis (Ground on a scotch humor, 1700) ; costumes by caprice ; dancers, the companies.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-3517

OCLC

212641242

Title

Points of departure [videorecording] / artistic director, Catherine Turocy ; [performed by] The New York Baroque Dance Company with Company XIV and Concert Royal.

Imprint

c2007.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Mark Morris Dance Center, James and Martha Duffy Performance Space, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 28, 2007.

Credits

Lighting design, Kathry Kaufmann ; videotaped and edited by Johannes Holub Videographers.

Performer

Danced by The New York Baroque Dance Company: Patricia Beaman, Caroline Copeland, Terence Duncan, Sarah Edgar, Emily Gayeski, Aaron Walter, Seth Williams, Catherine Turocy.

Guest artists, Company XIV: Laura Careless, Yeva Glover, Samantha Ernst, Davon Rainey.

Music performed by Concert Royal: James Richman (harpsichord), Steven Hammer (baroque oboe), Sandra Miller (baroque flute), Cynthia Roberts (violin), Lisa Terry (viola da gamba).

Funding

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

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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

Added Author

Turocy, Catherine, choreographer.

Turocy, Catherine, dancer.

Beaman, Patricia, dancer.

Beaman, Patricia, choreographer.

Copeland, Caroline, dancer.

Duncan, Terence, dancer.

Edgar, Sarah, dancer.

Edgar, Sarah, choreographer.

Gayeski, Emily, dancer.

Walter, Aaron, dancer.

Williams, Seth, dancer.

Williams, Seth, choreographer.

McCormick, Austin, choreographer.

Careless, Laura, dancer.

Glover, Yeva, dancer.

Ernst, Samantha, dancer.

Rainey, Davon, dancer.

Richman, James, 1949- Instrumentalist

Hammer, Stephen. Instrumentalist

Miller, Sandra. Instrumentalist

Roberts, Cynthia. Instrumentalist

Terry, Lisa. Instrumentalist

Kaufmann, Kathy. Lighting designer

New York Public Library. Dance Division.

New York Baroque Dance Company.

Company XIV (Dance company)

Concert Royal (Musical group : U.S.)

Johannes Holub Videographers.

Added Title

Accumulating Venus (Choreographic work : Beaman)

Trompe l'oeil (Choreographic work : McCormick)

Armida abbandonata (Choreographic work : Edgar)

Point of departure (Choreographic work : Williams)

Caprice (Choreographic work : Turocy)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-3517