Research Catalog

Title

The stories I could tell [videorecording] : Arthur Mitchell at 75 / moderator, Robert Greskovic ; series producer, Alan Pally ; presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Publication

c2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Pally, Alan J.
• Mitchell, Arthur, 1934-
• Norman, Jessye
• Greskovic, Robert.
• Hines, Kay.
• Dance Theatre of Harlem.
• New York Public Library. Dance Division.
• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (83 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Arthur Mitchell discusses his childhood and family; how he started dancing, and auditioning for the Performing Arts High School; how racism affected his life and career; accepting a scholarship to the School of American Ballet; joining New York City Ballet in 1954; his first performance with NYCB in Western symphony with Tanaquil LeClercq; creating the Agon pas de deux with Diana Adams; founding the first national ballet company of Brazil in 1966, which lead to the creation of his Harlem School of the Arts in 1968; discussion of slavery and the Quadroon Ball which Katherine Dunham asked Mitchell to create; meeting Karel Shook and establishing Dance Theatre of Harlem; creating Creole Giselle with Frederic Franklin; his Dancing through Barriers education and community outreach program that began in 1993 in South Africa; Jessye Norman briefly talking about Arthur Mitchell and the Honor! project celebrating the African American cultural legacy that she is curating at Carnegie Hall; and a brief question and answer session.

Subject

• Mitchell, Arthur, 1934-
• Shook, Karel
• Balanchine, George
• Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013
• Dance Theatre of Harlem
• Racism
• Slavery

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Recording made possible by the cooperation of the Dance Theatre of Harlem ; Public Programs, The New York Public Library ; and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
• This program is presented in conjunction with the New York Public Library's exhibition entitled, 40 years of firsts: Dance Theatre of Harlem.
• Introduction by producer, Alan Pally.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Kay Hines (Dekart Video).

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y.,on Mar. 12, 2009.

Funding (note)

• The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
• The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Jerome Robbins Foundation.

System Details (note)

• DVD, transferred from DVCam cassette.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5568

OCLC

615701743

Title

The stories I could tell [videorecording] : Arthur Mitchell at 75 / moderator, Robert Greskovic ; series producer, Alan Pally ; presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Imprint

c2009.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD, transferred from DVCam cassette.

Event

Videotaped at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y.,on Mar. 12, 2009.

Performer

Panelist: Arthur Mitchell, Jessye Norman (special guest).

Moderator, Robert Greskovic.

Credits

Videographer, Kay Hines (Dekart Video).

Funding

The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

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

Added Author

Pally, Alan J., speaker.

Pally, Alan J., producer.

Mitchell, Arthur, 1934- speaker.

Norman, Jessye, speaker.

Greskovic, Robert. Moderator

Hines, Kay. Videographer

Dance Theatre of Harlem.

New York Public Library. Dance Division.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5568