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Let Them Talk : Janis Brenner

Title
Let Them Talk : Janis Brenner, 2009 November 3.
Publication
2009.

Available Online

NYPL Digital Collections

Details

Additional Authors
  • Brenner, Janis
  • Derienzo, Paul
  • Moossy, Joanie
  • Manhattan Neighborhood Network, presenter.
Description
1 streaming video file (31 min.) : sound, color.
Summary
Janis Brenner discusses her dance and music background since childhood; discovering choreographers, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis during college; joining the Murray Louis Dance Company and touring for 8 years; forming her own dance company, Janis Brenner & Dancers in 1989; working with Meredith Monk beginning in 1990 after auditioning for Monk's opera Atlas; reviving Monk's Break (1964) for her current show, 5 Decades, which also includes Murray Louis' Figura, Guilt, A Matter of Time, and Dancing in Absentia; how Dancing in Absentia is an homage to the men dancers lost to AIDS; showing Brenner's dance film, Lake, during and behind the interview; the value and experience of collaborating with artists including dancers, lighting designer Mitchell Bogard (her husband), and costume designer Ramona Ponce; advice and words of encouragement for dancers; and concludes with a brief talk of dance on television including the program, So You Think You Can Dance.
Uniform Title
Lake (Choreographic work : Brenner)
Alternative Title
Janis Brenner Interview
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Filmed dance.
  • Filmed performances.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
Note
  • Title from opening video credits.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Source (note)
  • Janis Brenner;
Contents
Manhattan Neighborhood Network advertisement (3 min.) -- Janis Brenner interview on Let Them Talk (28 min.) / interviewers, Paul Derienzo and Joanie Moossy ; interviewee, Janis Brenner.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-6949
OCLC
867650632
Title
Let Them Talk : Janis Brenner, 2009 November 3.
Production
2009.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
video
Type of Carrier
online resource
Original Version
Original format: 1 videodisc (DVD) ; 4 3/4 in.
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Event
Videotaped during interview at studio in New York, N.Y. 2009 November 3.
Source
Gift; Janis Brenner; 2012.
Connect to:
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Added Author
Brenner, Janis, interviewee.
Brenner, Janis, choreographer.
Derienzo, Paul, interviewer.
Moossy, Joanie, interviewer.
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, presenter.
Brenner, Janis, donor.
Added Title
Container of (work): Lake (Choreographic work : Brenner)
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-6949
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