Research Catalog

Title

Armitage Gone! Dance, The elegant universe [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

2008.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Armitage, Karole
• Armitage, Karole.
• Ligeti, Lukas.
• Gates, S. James, Jr.
• Cronson, Mary Sharp.
• Armitage Gone! Dance.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (89 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This program was presented in collaboration with the World Science Festival. An excerpt from Connoisseurs of chaos and a series of excerpts from the work-in-progress The elegant universe are interspersed with discussions of physics. Karole Armitage speaks about how her choreography was inspired by and reflects the ideas of relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory, drawn from the book The elegant universe by Brian Greene. Theoretical physicist Jim Gates gives a talk on Einstein's theory of special relativity and discusses the nature of science and its relationship to the arts.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform Title

• Connoisseurs of chaos (Choreographic work : Armitage)
• Elegant universe (Choreographic work : Armitage)
• Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subject

• Connoisseurs of chaos (Choreographic work : Armitage)
• Elegant universe (Choreographic work : Armitage)
• Space and time
• Relativity (Physics)
• Quantum theory
• String models
• Science in art
• Physics and the arts

Genre/Form

• Video.
• Dance.

Credits (note)

• Choreography: Karole Armitage. Music: Lukas Ligeti, performed by Ligeti (marimba and electronics), Marco Cappelli (guitar), Ha-Yang Kim (cello).

Event (note)

• Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on May 30, 2008.

Biography (note)

• Program note: "The elegant universe is scheduled to premiere in New York City in 2009."

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4205

OCLC

247970210

Title

Armitage Gone! Dance, The elegant universe [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

2008.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Credits

Choreography: Karole Armitage. Music: Lukas Ligeti, performed by Ligeti (marimba and electronics), Marco Cappelli (guitar), Ha-Yang Kim (cello).

Performer

Speakers: Karole Armitage, Jim Gates.

Dance performed by Armitage Gone! Dance: Leonides Arpon, Matthew Branham, Frances Chiaverini, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Mei-Hua Wang; and guest dancers: Leah Barsky, Giorgia Bovo, Kristin Draucker, Meredith Fages, Rie Kiyomiya, Jennifer Lott, Luke Manley, Rachel McLaren, Adele LeRoi Nickel, Ally Taylor Sacks, Jenny Sandler, Masayo Yamaguchi.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on May 30, 2008.

Biography

Program note: "The elegant universe is scheduled to premiere in New York City in 2009."

Local Note

For program notes see *MGZB Works and process at the Guggenheim [programs]

Added Author

Armitage, Karole, choreographer.

Armitage, Karole. Speaker

Ligeti, Lukas. Composer

Ligeti, Lukas. Instrumentalist

Gates, S. James, Jr. Speaker

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Armitage Gone! Dance.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Added Title

Connoisseurs of chaos (Choreographic work : Armitage)

Elegant universe (Choreographic work : Armitage)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4205