Research Catalog

Title

[Tassilo Adam film screenings in Java] [videorecording].

Publication

1989-1990.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Suharti, Th. (Theresia)
• Ngaliman S., 1918-
• Burton, Deena.

Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (124 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

In 1989-1990 a Fulbright Scholarship enabled Deena Burton to take copies of Tassilo Adam's ethnographic dance films, which she had edited, back to Indonesia. She presented screenings for Indonesian artists and scholars, eliciting their comments and background information. These screenings were recorded on 8mm videocassette. Adam's films are not visible on the screen, and there is no dance content. The language spoken is usually Bahasa Indonesia, but the participants may speak Javanese among themselves. This recording contains two such screenings, the first for a group at the home of Theresia Suharti, a member of a family of performers at the kraton Yogyakarta and a dancer and teacher in her own right. Burton studied with her at the Center for World Music in California. The participants include four "Ibus"; since Ibu is a feminine honorific, this indicates that four prominent women, probably dancers or teachers of note, were present. In the screening for Pak Ngaliman [Pak is an honorific], a former dancer and teacher in Solo, the voices of Burton, Skip La Plante, and others are heard conversing in English off-camera.

Series Statement

Deena Burton Collection

Subjects

• Dance > Indonesia
• Video
• Adam, Tassilo

Genre/Form

Video.

Note

• Title supplied by cataloger.

Event (note)

• Screening at the home of Theresia Suharti recorded in Yogyakarta, Java, on Aug. 14, 1989.
• Screening for Pak Ngaliman probably recorded in Surakarta, also called Solo, Java, in 1990.

Funding (note)

• Funding for the preservation and cataloging of the Deena Burton Collection was provided in part by the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Skip La Plante.

Biography (note)

• Deena Burton, 1948-2005, was an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar of Indonesian dance. During her first trip to Indonesia in 1976-1980, she studied a variety of Indonesian dance styles. After returning to New York City, she obtained a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University in 1982. Working with several dance, music, and theater groups, she staged both original and Indonesian choreographies, and founded her own company, Bali-Java Dance Theater. She frequently collaborated with composer Skip La Plante, whom she later married. She was among the founders of the New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan ensemble, later called Gamelan Kusuma Laras. She was a major force behind the not-for-profit organization Arts Indonesia. At the New York Public Library, she edited the Tassilo Adam films, an invaluable collection shot in Indonesia in the 1920s, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to take the edited films to Indonesia in 1989-1990. She received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University in 1997, writing her dissertation on Claire Holt. For a fuller biography, see: http://www.gamelan.org/deenaburton/deenabio.html.

Contents

Disc 1: Screening at the home of Theresia Suharti, part 2 (ca. 64 min.) -- Disc 2: Continuation of screening at the home of Theresia Suharti (ca. 33 min.) -- Screening for Pak Ngaliman, part 2 (ca. 27 min.).

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4353

OCLC

275278565

Title

[Tassilo Adam film screenings in Java] [videorecording].

Imprint

1989-1990.

Series

Deena Burton Collection

System Details

DVD.

Event

Screening at the home of Theresia Suharti recorded in Yogyakarta, Java, on Aug. 14, 1989.

Screening for Pak Ngaliman probably recorded in Surakarta, also called Solo, Java, in 1990.

Funding

Funding for the preservation and cataloging of the Deena Burton Collection was provided in part by the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography

Deena Burton, 1948-2005, was an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar of Indonesian dance. During her first trip to Indonesia in 1976-1980, she studied a variety of Indonesian dance styles. After returning to New York City, she obtained a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University in 1982. Working with several dance, music, and theater groups, she staged both original and Indonesian choreographies, and founded her own company, Bali-Java Dance Theater. She frequently collaborated with composer Skip La Plante, whom she later married. She was among the founders of the New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan ensemble, later called Gamelan Kusuma Laras. She was a major force behind the not-for-profit organization Arts Indonesia. At the New York Public Library, she edited the Tassilo Adam films, an invaluable collection shot in Indonesia in the 1920s, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to take the edited films to Indonesia in 1989-1990. She received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University in 1997, writing her dissertation on Claire Holt. For a fuller biography, see: http://www.gamelan.org/deenaburton/deenabio.html.

Local Note

Screening at the home of Theresia Suharti begins on *MGZIDVD 5-4366 [Tassilo Adam film screenings in Java].

Screening for Pak Ngaliman begins on *MGZIDVD 5-4352. Parts 3 and 4 continue respectively on *MGZIDVD 5-4354 and *MGZIDVD 5-4361. All of these videos are titled [Tassilo Adam film screenings in Java].

Source

Gift; Skip La Plante.

Added Author

Suharti, Th. (Theresia)

Ngaliman S., 1918-

Burton, Deena.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4353