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American Ballet Theatre, the art of adaptation Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title: American Ballet Theatre, the art of adaptation [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication: c2009.

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1 videodisc (NTSC) (85 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This program focuses on the different aspects of adapting ABT II and ABT productions to various theaters. Raymond Lukens and Franco De Vita discuss how they help adapt dancers to small spaces including a phrase adaptation demonstration by students of the American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School using August Bournonville movements including Flower Festival in Genzano. Wes Chapman, director of ABT II/moderator, discusses how he helps his company to adapt quickly by using colored tape for space markers to help deliniate the performance space and he coaches dancers April Giangeruso and Brian Waldrep on altering the Act II pas de deux from Swan Lake due to lack of space. James Whitehill, head of ABT production dept., discusses the challenges of adapting productions to different spaces ranging from Avery Fischer Hall and Bard College, to the Concert Hall at Kennedy Center. He also discusses the new ABT choreographic work, Sleeping beauty, from its inception to its completion. Susan Jones discusses her job as ballet mistress for ABT including coaching and rehearsing the corps de ballet.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform Title

Blomsterfesten i Genzano (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
Swan lake (Choreographic work). Act II, Pas de deux.
Swan lake (Choreographic work : Ivanov). Act II.
Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Alternative Title

One of three (Choreographic work : Barton)
Seven sonatas (Choreographic work : Ratmansky)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Video.
Dance.

Event (note)

Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Oct. 11, 2009.

System Details (note)

DVD.

Source (note)

Mary Sharp Cronson.

Contents

Historical perspective and Bournonville technique demonstration / moderated and staged by Raymond Lukens ; music performed by Michael Cherry ; performed by Melissa Gelfin, Nayara Macedo Lopes, Elise Miller, Alison Stroming, Jinho Won, Sterling Baca, Thibaut Eiferman, Shu Kinouchi, Aaron Smyth (American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School) -- Discussion [ABT II] / speaker, Wes Chapman -- Swan lake, Act II, pas de deux / choreography by Lev Ivanov ; music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky ; coaching and staging by Wes Chapman ; performed by April Giangeruso, Brian Waldrep (ABT II) -- Discussion [adapting the production] / by Jamie Whitehill -- One of three (excerpt) / choreographed by Aszure Barton ; music by Maurice Ravel (Violin sonata in G) ; costumes by Yannik Larivée ; performed by Jared Matthews (soloist, ABT) -- Discussion / by Susan Jones -- Seven sonatas (excerpt) / choreography by Alexei Ratmansky ; music by Domenico Scarlatti (Sonata in F minor #481) ; music performed by Ormsby Wilkins ; costumes by Holly Hynes ; performed by Yuriko Kajiya (soloist, ABT), Carlos Lopez (soloist, ABT).

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5307

OCLC

471762804

Title

American Ballet Theatre, the art of adaptation [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

c2009.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

System Details

DVD.

Performer

Moderator: Wes Chapman ; panel: Raymond Lukens (artistic associate, ABT/NYU masters program), Franco De Vita (principal, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School), Wes Chapman (artistic director, ABT II), Jamie Whitehill (director of production, ABT), Susan Jones (ballet mistress, ABT).

Danced by students of the American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and members of American Ballet Theatre and American Ballet Theatre II.

Event

Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Oct. 11, 2009.

Local Note

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

Source

Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson. NN-PD

Added Author

Lukens, Raymond. Interviewee

Vita, Franco de. Interviewee

Chapman, Wes. Interviewee

Whitehill, James, interviewee.

Jones, Susan. Interviewee

Cherry, Michael (Pianist)

Wilkins, Ormsby. Instrumentalist

Ratmansky, Alexei, choreographer.

Bournonville, August, 1805-1879, choreographer.

Barton, Aszure, choreographer.

Giangeruso, April, dancer.

Waldrep, Brian, dancer.

Matthews, Jared, dancer.

Kajiya, Yuriko, dancer.

Lopez, Carlos, 1976- dancer.

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

American Ballet Theatre.

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Donor NN-PD

Added Title

Blomsterfesten i Genzano (Choreographic work : Bournonville)

Swan lake (Choreographic work). Act II, Pas de deux.

Swan lake (Choreographic work : Ivanov). Act II.

One of three (Choreographic work : Barton)

Seven sonatas (Choreographic work : Ratmansky)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5307

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