Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Liz Prince [videorecording] / interviewer, Barbara Cohen-Stratyner.

Publication

c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Prince, Liz, 1961-
• Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara Naomi.
• Steiner, Charlie.
• Timberlake, Sarah.
• New York Public Library. Dance Division.
• National Endowment for the Arts.
• Timberlake Studios.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (82 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Liz Prince discusses her background as a costume designer and performance artist; shows costumes she created for her performance art pieces; creating her first costumes at Bard College for the Dance Dept.; her first big costume job with Bill T. Jones for his Havoc in heaven, and her continued work with him on such works as, Still/Here and his latest piece, A quarreling pair; also her experiences working with Doug Varone, Meg Stuart (Remote for White Oak Dance Project), Jane Comfort, Koosil-ja Hwang, and Boston Ballet; her process for creating designs for plays including Pippin' at the Goodspeed Opera House with its dancing daisy go-go boys coming out of grandma's afgan and the use of leather instead of rubber for the women's armor; her sketches for the daisy outfit, newspaper outfit and balloon outfit; the first time she worked with a professional costume shop, Timberlake Studios; discussion of the construction of costumes for Meg Stuart's Remote which included Mikhail Baryshnikov's costume; her consideration of the dancers movement and needs for each costume, specifically when she created Michael Tracy's Aquatica costumes for the Pilobolus Dance Theater; working with Leonora Champagne from scripts for her plays, Mother's little helper and Isabella dreams a new world; and finally why she became a designer.

Alternative Title

• Women designers for live performance, oral history, Liz Prince.
• Remote (Choreographic work : Stuart)
• Aquatica (Choreographic work : Tracy)
• Glass menagerie (Choreographic work : Comfort)
• Quarreling pair (Choreographic work : Jones)

Subjects

• Varone, Doug
• Video
• Costume designers
• Still/Here (Choreographic work : Jones)
• Dance costume
• Costume design
• Jones, Bill T
• Tracy, Michael, 1952-
• Comfort, Jane
• Hwang, Koosil-ja, 1960-
• Pilobolus Dance Theatre
• Stuart, Meg
• Costumes (Making or sewing)
• Prince, Liz, 1961-
• Interviews
• Dance

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.
• Interviews.

Note

• Recording made possible by the cooperation of Liz Prince, Sarah Timberlake and the staff at Timberlake Studios, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.

Credits (note)

• Videography, Charlie Steiner.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Timberlake Costume Studios, New York, N.Y. on Oct. 27, 2008.

Funding (note)

• This recording was made possible by an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4820

OCLC

319537306

Title

Interview with Liz Prince [videorecording] / interviewer, Barbara Cohen-Stratyner.

Imprint

c2008.

System Details

DVD.

Event

Videotaped at the Timberlake Costume Studios, New York, N.Y. on Oct. 27, 2008.

Performer

Interviewee, Liz Prince.

Credits

Videography, Charlie Steiner.

Funding

This recording was made possible by an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Local Subject

Costumes (Making or sewing)

Added Author

Prince, Liz, 1961- Interviewee

Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara Naomi. Interviewer

Steiner, Charlie. Videographer

Timberlake, Sarah. Costume designer

New York Public Library. Dance Division.

National Endowment for the Arts.

Timberlake Studios.

Added Title

Remote (Choreographic work : Stuart)

Aquatica (Choreographic work : Tracy)

Glass menagerie (Choreographic work : Comfort)

Quarreling pair (Choreographic work : Jones)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4820