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Uncivil Wars: Collaborating with Brecht & Eisler

Title: Uncivil Wars: Collaborating with Brecht & Eisler, 2007-12-21 / directed, choreographed and edited by David Gordon; performed by Pick Up Performance Company ; presented by The Kitchen.
Publication: 2007.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors

Found In

David Gordon archive.

Description

2 streaming video files (116 min.) : sound, color.

Uniform Title

Uncivil Wars (Choreographic work : Gordon)

Alternative Title

David Gordon archive. Moving image.

Genre/Form

Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.
Drama.
Video.
Dance.

Note

Credits transcribed from program.
Title on original: Uncivil Wars, The Kitchen, 12/2007.
Reel 2 begins with a repeat of approximately 22 min. from end of Reel 1.
Based on The Roundheads and the Pointheads by Bertolt Brecht as translated by Michael Feingold

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

Music by Hanns Eisler; Music Director: Gina Leishman; Media Director: Dean Moss; Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton; Produced by Alyce Dissette; Stage Manager: Ed Fitzgerald; Assistant Lighting Designer: Lily Pearlmutter; Wardrobe Assistant: Hebe Joy.

Source (note)

Pick Up Performance Co(s), David Gordon.

Contents

Reel 1 (83 min.). Uncivil Wars (beginning) -- Reel 2 (approximately 33 min.). Uncivil Wars (conclusion).

Call Number

*MGZIDF 3920

OCLC

898337295

Title

Uncivil Wars: Collaborating with Brecht & Eisler, 2007-12-21 / directed, choreographed and edited by David Gordon; performed by Pick Up Performance Company ; presented by The Kitchen.

Production

2007.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Access

Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits

Music by Hanns Eisler; Music Director: Gina Leishman; Media Director: Dean Moss; Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton; Produced by Alyce Dissette; Stage Manager: Ed Fitzgerald; Assistant Lighting Designer: Lily Pearlmutter; Wardrobe Assistant: Hebe Joy.

Performer

Performers: Valda Setterfield (Bertolt Brecht/Judge), Autumn Dornfeld (Nana/Mrs. Callas/Isabella), Norma Fire (Tobacconist/Abbess/Mrs. Lopez/Lawyer); John Kelly (Vice Viceroy/Hat Knocker/Lopez), Robert LaVelle (Viceroy/Slumlord/Deguzman), Gina Leishman (Hanns Eisler), Derek Lucci (Callas/Hat Knocker/Nun), Dean Moss (Moving Man), Estelle Parsons (Madam/Mother Superior).

Event

Videotaped in performance at The Kitchen, New York, N.Y., 2007 December 21.

Original Version

Original format: 2 videocassettes (MiniDV).

Source

Gift; Pick Up Performance Co(s), David Gordon. 2014.

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Added Author

Gordon, David, 1936-2022, stage director.

Gordon, David, 1936-2022, choreographer.

Gordon, David, 1936-2022, editor.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe. English.

Feingold, Michael, translator.

Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962, composer.

Leishman, Gina, musical director.

Tipton, Jennifer, lighting designer.

Dissette, Alyce, producer.

Fitzgerald, Ed, stage manager.

Setterfield, Valda, performer.

Dornfeld, Autumn, performer.

LaVelle, Robert, performer.

Fire, Norma, performer.

Kelly, John, 1954- performer.

Leishman, Gina, performer.

Lucci, Derek, performer.

Moss, Dean, performer.

Parsons, Estelle, performer.

David Gordon/Pickup Company, performer.

Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film, and Literature (New York, N.Y.), presenter.

Gordon, David, 1936-2022, donor.

David Gordon/Pickup Company, donor.

Added Title

Container of (work): Uncivil Wars (Choreographic work : Gordon)

David Gordon archive. Moving image.

Found In:

David Gordon archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 3920

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