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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Gus Solomons jr.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Gus Solomons jr.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 29 min., 47 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Dancer Gus Solomons jr was born on April 27, 1940. He studied architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and danced with Jan Veen at Boston Conservatory, before moving to New York City to dance in Kicks and Co. Solomons joined Donald McKayle's company and studied the Martha Graham Technique. He was part of the collective of avant-garde experimentalists that eventually formed the Judson Dance Theater. When the postmodern choreographer Merce Cunningham asked Solomons to join his company, Solomons began interpreting Cunningham's postmodern concept of kinetic intention in his own choreography. He founded Gus Solomons Company/Dance, for which he created over 165 pieces. Known for his analytical approach, architectural concepts, and use of video and other forms of media, Solomons critiqued dance and performed with the PARADIGM dance company, which he founded with Carmen de Lavallade and Dudley Williams.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Gus Solomons jr
- Gus Solomons jr
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1000519595
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Gus Solomons jr.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 022947
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Harriette Cole, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
- Recorded New York, New York 2016 October 7.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Dancer.
- Added Author
- Solomons, Gus, Jr., 1938-2023 interviewee.Cole, Harriette, interviewer.Stearns, Scott, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.